I started teaching other people about the cities wild edible delights a few years ago, and also taking photos of what I found to post on my foragelondon facebook page, but more than trying to just show the obvious identification of these plants and mushrooms, I always hope to show the beauty of them. Wild food truly can be wild art and it's all around us, especially in the city. I didn't set out to eat wild food every day but the more I leant the more I found myself, literally surrounded, by delicious free food.
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a salad of 20 plants,picked in just 10 minutes
winter chanterelle pickled with soy and mirin
my famous 4 garlic soup
left to right.
garlic mustard (actually cabbage imitating garlic), crow garlic aka chives, ransoms aka wild garlic, 3 cornered leek
garlic mustard (actually cabbage imitating garlic), crow garlic aka chives, ransoms aka wild garlic, 3 cornered leek
magnolia petals
think chicory meets ginger meets celery
the joys of a micro climate, all these spring plants were out in november
sorrel
wild plums
lesser celandine, garlic mustard, violet
ginkgo leaves
poison hemlock, wild carrot, cow parsley
hawthorn leaves and blossoms
a spring time wild flower salad
winter wild leaves in vietnamese rice paper
stunning 3 cornered leek flowers
gorse and cow parsley flowers with dandelion and mallow leaves
a simple wild winter salad
wild leek heads
