Spring is a great time to visit the seaside and an ideal time to go rock-pooling, with seaweeds at their best…

The first severe frosts of winter will no doubt finish off most of the edible foods in the woods and pastures, but it is still worth looking out for the hardy few…

Hazelnuts, Sweet Chestnuts, Blackberries, Elderberries, Crab Apples and Sloes: just some of nature’s autumn wild harvest which surrounds us as we walk…

Summer fruits are on their way, with wild strawberries to pick from the hedgerows, bilberries starting to ripen in the sun and, a little later, wild cherries. There was a lot of blossom this year so hopefully a good harvest [...]

Spring is here and nature’s larder is well and truly open for business. The first good edible fungi to look out for are St George’s Mushrooms, Calocybe gambosa, commonly found near woodland edges or sometimes in rings in unimproved grassland. [...]

Tasty mushrooms can spice up a winter stew very well…

Early summer fills the hedgerows with aromatic elderflowers, while in August many popular wild berries will be ripening, such as blackberry, strawberry, raspberry, gooseberry…

Spring fungi are often easier to spot than those fruiting later on in the year. The grass is shorter, fewer leaves are on the trees and the monochrome woodland mean brightly coloured fungi stand out.