Have you ever wondered what happens to your body when you eat wild foods? I’m Mo Wilde, a foraging teacher. We’re currently fundraising to include between 100 and 120 people in the second study of The Wildbiome Project 2 which starts on April 1st 2025. To read the headline results of the 2023 project click here….
Author: Mo Wilde
Disappearing into the Nyae Nyae
I’m really testing my foraging and survival skills as I’ve temporarily moved house. I’ve left the fresh green Scottish spring behind and have moved to the northern Kalahari Desert, where I’m staying with a Jul/’hoansi tribe for a whole month. I’m both excited and terrified – there are, after all, 17 species of poisonous snake…
The Wilderness Cure
‘Foraging is one of the last wild acts of defiance against the concrete world. Humans versus humanoids. It’s a crack in the dam, a chink of light, wild food nourishes your very soul.’
Winter Root Harvest: Burdock
What have velcro, gobo, inulin and a man in disguise covered in seed heads got to do with my winter diet? I’m exploring the multiple uses of burdock, a highly underrated wild vegetable. Burdock (Arctium lappa, Compositae) is famed for having inspired George de Mestral, the inventor of Velcro, as its seed heads are covered…
Foraging in Winter
If you’ve recently got interested in foraging, or lockdown is getting to you, don’t wait for the Spring to start foraging. Here are some good reasons to get outside… With all the food available in the supermarkets, just what is the point of foraging? Well, I can think of quite a few: 1. The Pleasure…
Winter Root Harvest: Dandelion
Clocks, coffee, salads and the King’s scrofula. Dandelion roots are a winter staple and the whole plant has a surprising amount of uses. Dandelions (Taraxacum officinale, Compositae) need hardly any introduction with their puffball seed heads or clocks and their brilliant yellow flowers. They herald the Spring and provide a vital early pollinating source for…