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Adam Savage
09-08-2011, 11:24 PM
Today I was given three Collins Gem books, so I decided to head off to Bucknell wood, to see how easy they were to use and how much detail they contained. I made a short video, but that's another matter (the video is on my YouTube channel).
Here are some of the wild edibles I came across.

Hazel (nuts in Autumn)...

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Cow Parsley...

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Our old friend the Stinging Nettle...

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I also found more Burdock, but didn't take any photos of those, and premature Brambles/Blackcurrants (again, no photos, but both are in the video).

Not the greatest haul, but something to nibble on, and would go well with rabbit :)

Adam
Woodwose
10-08-2011, 02:02 PM
Lot of hazel nuts on the trees round here, lots of grey squirrels too, which usually get them first. Still not tried nettles or cow parsley. In the woods today, I ate the last remaining raspberries on the bushes. A few blackberries ready, but only a handful.
Realbark
10-08-2011, 05:44 PM
Had a good few blackberries (make jam), nettles for soup and some semi-wild rhubarb (a garden overspill) which will male more jam.
Adam Savage
10-08-2011, 06:11 PM
Nettle soup is tasty, but only a small amount of it is actually nettle. Nettle tea is great, hardly any effort and tastes just like black tea (well to me it does anyway :)). All the Blackberries round here are immature at the moment, hazel nuts, just starting to appear on many trees, burdock is very much in flower and in quite decent amounts too (roots should be nice and big), but remember, it is illegal to dig up the root system of plants without express permission.

Soon as March rolls round next year, I'll be off out to tap some more birch, tastes like slightly sweet water :)