foraging

I absolutely love this sort of weather that happens in February and March when the high pressure builds: I always liken it to the type of weather you experience in Spain during the winter – [...]

I’ve been wittering on a lot recently about signs of spring, birds singing, forageable edibles starting to poke above ground. Now we’ve got all this white stuff cluttering up the [...]

OK, I know it’s cold and miserable out there, but I really don’t believe we have real winters here at all. It seems to me that we have a long-drawn-out autumn, merging into an equally [...]

The clock goes back and all we have to show for it is an extra hour in bed on one single morning! It is quite depressing to lose the hour in the evening. I feel that it is so unfair that the [...]

I’m sure I’ve talked about these before, but that was last year and who can remember back that far? I am constantly amazed when cycling into Belfast along the Lagan that there is a [...]

These blackberries are amongst the earliest I know about – they are growing in a hedge about 20 houses away from my own in south Belfast and a stone’s throw from the busy Ormeau Road. [...]

Out and about recently, I’ve noticed quite a bit of Mahonia coming into fruit in parks, landscaped shrubberies and car-park plantings. Mahonia goes under various English names, including [...]

I had the need of a bag of wild garlic, so I took a jaunt into Belvoir Forest to pick some today. I had forgotten that there are some stunning trees that I see every time and they always give me [...]

Aaaaaaargh! I have just realised that it is almost 2 months since I updated this site – that comes from me being 50+ and trying to do a blog, facebook, emails and stuff like that, all of [...]

The official start of the Irish spring was St. Brigid’s day, 1st February, but with the mild weather of the past few days, spring is firmly in progress. Any glance into parks and gardens [...]