Well, it’s stopped raining at last, after what seems like days of continuous drizzle, rain, dampness, gloom and sogginess. Not that I hate rain, but sometimes, when there’s stuff you [...]
This autumn is, like any other autumn, filled with signals that many people tend to take as portents of the winter to come. Some of the characteristics of the season so far with respect to fruits [...]
This weekend’s haul included a load of blackberries and some crab apples. The blackberries are probably just past their peak, and this season hasn’t been so good I reckon. Our [...]
This coming week, we are going to be on Rathlin Island off the Antrim coast to do some foraging on the island. We aren’t thinking of charging anyone – this is purely a bit of fun, and [...]
Forage has been on extended break over the summer, mainly due to other commitments (work, holidays, allotment, laziness, etc.). However, we can no longer ignore all the foraging opportunities out [...]
I’ve been out and about quite a bit lately, mainly doing surveying for the Bird Atlas. This is a 5-year project to map out the entire breeding and wintering distribution of all the birds in [...]
I don’t know where that song phrase comes from, but it sure as hell isn’t very accurate. I tried a bit of foraging today – 28th May – and struggled to find anything more [...]
A few months ago, I put up a nest box on the side of the shed at the allotment. It is a bit exposed, and there aren’t exactly woods and trees nearby, but lo and behold, sooth and forsooth, [...]
As a good forager, I am always on the lookout for free, or at least very (very) cheap stuff to eat, grow or use. My latest find was a stand in B&Q where plants that they had forgotten to [...]
Wild Garlic isn’t the only garlicky thing to be found in spring. There is a brilliant wee plant called Garlic Mustard that can be found in hedgerows and woodland edges, and it is at its [...]
