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Bonnie Galloway - Scotland's Best Kept Secret

Foraging Diaries – Rosebay Willow Herb – Chamerion angustifolium

Foraging Diaries - Birch Polypore Fungus - Fomitopsis betulina

Bonnie Galloway - Scotland's Best Kept Secret

Most people visiting Scotland head straight up to the Highlands. As they pass the Scottish border sign on the M6, celebrating their...

Foraging Diaries – Rosebay Willow Herb – Chamerion angustifolium

"On ground abandoned and cast aside and railway embankments you can be spied upright in stance and as bold as brass all turn and flee...

Foraging Diaries - Birch Polypore Fungus - Fomitopsis betulina

There a sometimes-killing- but also useful - fungi sprouts from a rot-set silver bough I tell you - 'it is also known as razor strop...

Foraging Diaries - Meadowsweet - Filipendula ulmaria

In clouds of creamy frothy flowers The Meadowsweet in summer’s seen In ditch and bank it wafts its scent Bride wort, or Dolloff, Meadow...

When did you last sharpen your axe?

Solivagant – (adj) wandering alone, a solitary wanderer. A person who revels in the act of wandering alone–preferably in destinations and...

Foraging Diaries - Common Nettle - Urtica dioica

The stinging nettle only Will still be found to stand: The numberless, the lonely, The thronger of the land, The leaf that hurts the...

Foraging Diaries - Dandelion - Taraxicum Officinale

"I am born as the Sun, But then turn into the Moon, As my blonde hairs turn greyish-white and falls to the ground, Only to be buried...

Foraging Diaries - Wild Garlic - Allium ursinum

"Walking through the forest, there was a gentle breeze, the pungent smell of Garlic floated through the air. I looked around and sure...