Scurvy weed: How to identify it and use it to create new recipes.

Learning about Scurvy weed and how to respectfully forage it, can be a way of celebrating the original keepers of the knowledge we use today and to implement native wild foods in our diets.

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How to identify flatweed and cat's ear, and use them in your recipes.

All hail flatweed, the wonderful edible weed. This plant is easy to recognise and grows in abundance

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Fantastic fennel fields forevermore

It is wild fennel time! This wonderful plant provides for greens in springtime, flowers in summer and coming up the fully formed seeds. Easy to identify through the distinctive scent, go get foraging!

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How to harvest and eat Robinia flowers

Robinia flowers are edible, their aroma is divine, and they are all over Temperate Australia right now.
Check your hood as you might be missing out!

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mmmm moorish mulberries!! How to take advantage of the seasonal bonanza

It can be argued that it is our obligation to eat mulberries when they are ripe on the tree. It is part of our biological contract. We, urban mammals, eat mulberries and the tree flourishes forevermore.
Go on, do your job, it is the season!

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Wild food foraging - Ep 3

Make sure you know what you're looking at before you eat it. If in doubt, do not eat it.
The way to check on key identification features is through visual clues, but also by using your other senses like smell and touch.
A great way to remember this is through stories, so learn the stories related to the plants, 'cause that will remind you of the features.

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Wild food foraging - Ep 2

The best to forage is your own garden, as there is where you know what is growing and how it is managed. In your garden, you will be able to take your time to learn about plants, how to identify them and expand your knowledge. Following from that you explore your neighbourhood where you will spot trees with overhanging fruits. Learn patterns and start mapping. There are food and medicine everywhere.

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Shepherd's purse – and the value of stories.

There are plants with great stories; there are plants with funny stories; there are plants with old stories and then there is shepherd’s purse, who’s story is best untold.

How to identify and use yellow dock and its close relatives

Once upon a time, they used to say that if you get stung by nettle you should find a dock leaf and rub it on, and the rush would be gone.

Is it true? Or is it just folk lore?

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Golden Kelp: how to identify and collect edible seaweeds

Did you know that you can eat seaweeds? The one down at the beach?
Meet golden kelp, the edible seaweed.

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How to identify and use sow thistle, the perfect edible weed.

How to tell a dandelion and a sowthistle apart? Eat them both!
Sowthistle is an amazing ad celebrated plant food all over the world, including Australia.

BEHOLD PLANTAIN, for there is more to tell.

One of the most celebrated medicine in the world is in your backyard. Here’s how to identify it.

Wonderful chickweed. And its poisonous lookalike.

There is an amazing little plant growing in your yard right now, as the weather cools down.
It is called chickweed. You can eat it.

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5 recipes for your dandelion weeds.

HOW-TO identify dandelions in your yard and…let me share a few recipes on how to take advantage of this treat>>

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on mellow mallow and why you should know about this edible weed

Mallow. Absolutely everywhere. This tough plant survives serious neglect and makes it the perfect edible weed. Stuck at home in isolation? Get to know your garden>

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5 weeds in your garden that you can eat.

Stuck at home in Corona Lockdown? Great, let’s get familiar with the edible weeds in the garden, shall we?
Food is everywhere>>

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Why learn about foraging today?

Read a testimonial from an amazing human, sharing her insight about foraging, and why learning about the ancient craft today is of value.
Thank you, Kate.

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Talking up weeds to farmers: can you really sell that?

Wildfood Store is a marketplace for edible wild plants.
We are setting up harvesting hubs within 4 hours drive of Sydney.
We provide fresh, clean and sustainably harvested wild produce to the fine dining industry of Sydney.
We offer training, advice, logistic support and distribution capabilities.

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Weeds as friends? Farmers friend: a nutritious and medicinal plant in everyone's garden.

Is your garden full of weeds? Excellent! You might find that you have something quite special there.
Meet farmers friend (bidens pilosa). a weedy friend indeed. And food. And medicine. And free.
Read on>>

Foraging as communion

Foraging as communion to place.
"There is magic and miracle woven into the stories of the land, water and air. Right where you are now."
Read on>>

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