foraging

If you look on the “About Forage” tab above, you can watch a short film shot and edited by our son, Tom Hughes. It really captures the spirit of Forage and how we do what we do. We [...]

This morning seemed all too typical of a winter morning in Belfast – a bit of drizzle, low cloud, pretty cold. Well, I had to collect some material for tomorrows workshop making Christmas [...]

Well, it’s not that bad. I had been keeping an eye out for sloes ripening on the bushes, but a long time ago I came to the realisation that sloes are going to be hard to come by this year. [...]

I am pretty confident of identifying most of the edible fungi (when I can find the blighters), but if you want to do some foraging yourself, it’s best if you are led by the real experts. [...]

Apart from the wonderful Keats poem, did you know that “Season of Mists” is a heavy metal recording label? That’s nice to know, as I am a bit of a metaller deep [...]

Autumnal greetings to all you foragers out there. It has been such a busy season that we haven’t had time to draw breath to write about what we’ve been doing, or share stuff on the [...]

Whatever about the slow start to our spring, this has certainly been a fantastic season for some of our wild flowers. I don’t know quite what it is, but maybe it was the cold April and May [...]

I’m very fond of dandelions. They are a real sign of spring, and seeing as those signs are very few and far between this year, they are all the more welcome for that. Normally bursting out [...]

We are involved in a flurry of events over the coming weeks, and these are to be found on the “Events” tab at the top of this page. The events are in Derry, Antrim, Glenarm and [...]

This year is very late in getting going, or rather, I am rather late in getting going. The weather has been pretty uninspiring for gardening, although the couple of fine frosty weeks in late [...]