Common Vetch: How to Identify, Forage and eat.

Common vetch (Vicia sativa) is a scrambling annual legume found across much of southern Australia. It is an ancient food crop although these days is mostly disregarded.

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How to identify and eat ice plant

There is a perennial plant with bright green leaves and glorious red, succulent flowers.
It is everywhere in south east Australia. It is called baby sunrose or ice plant. Oh, and it is yummy too.

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Grey knights, Nobility at our round table

Learn about yet another edible mushroom variety to be harvested in pine forests in Australia: Grey knights

How to Forage and Eat Society Garlic

Learn how to harvest and use society garlic, the amazing ingredient growing on the street verges of Eastern Australia.

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Can you eat nightshades? Yes you can

While its common name often evokes fear, confusion, or association with its highly toxic relative deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna), members of the Solanum nigrum group have long been gathered as leafy greens and fruit by many cultures. Learn to identify a readily available yummy fruit and green.

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Native spinach- Forage, cook, eat.

Learn how to identify, harvest and cook warrigal greens, a fantastic native spinach substitute.

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Alison Pouliot- learning wild edible mushrooms from the experts

Learn to harvest edible wild mushrooms with world renown fungi expert Alison Pouliot.
A unique, hands on, actual harvesting experience in NSW

Bulrush, the most ancient wetland food

Bulrushes is one of the most ancient food plant used by humans all over the world.
Is it time to rediscover this nutritious plant?

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Stalking the Wild Asparagus

It’s springtime and the country roads of southeast Australia are lined with yummy wild asparagus.

Better be quick!

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How to forage and eat three-corner garlic in Australia

Some gardeners really hate onionweed, and yet is one of the most celebrated wild edibles. Learn how to identify and cook this wild garlicky treat.

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Magnificent Magnolias and how to eat them

Magnolia flowers are edible, yummy and available everywhere at the moment. Read the guide on how to, find, cook and eat them.

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Pink peppercorns, on a tree near you.

Pink peppercorns are growing on trees all over southern Australia. They are easy to identify and is a free source of spice. Yum!

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Feral plums - the bounty in the country

The country roads of southeastern Australia are lined with feral plums in summer. Go for a drive and get yourself some wild food, make jam and rejoice in the abundance of nature.

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A full-time adventurer comes to a forage with me: read about what we talked about

The incredible Tamar Valkenier came to my foraging workshop. She’s a best selling author and a professional adventurer. Read what she has to say here>

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How to harvest and eat Neptune's necklace - Sea olives for summer snacks

Neptune’s pearls or Neptune’s necklace is a common brown seaweed found in rockpools and rock platforms in many Australian states. Learn how to ID and use this yummy seaweed.

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How to identify, harvest and eat Salsify. Oh My!

Oh, my! Salsify!
Learn about this common wild edible growing right now at the start of spring in the south-east and south-west of Australia.
It is yummy!