Available Autumn Food from the Wild – for the 30:30 challenge


Flowers for Salads

Clover

Red and white nettle

Nasturtiums (garden plant)

Marigolds (garden plant)

Heather (for tea)

Rosebay willow herb

Tansy (for adding to cakes)

Stems

Suitable stems not available

Leaves

Red clover

Comfrey

Dandelion

Sow Thistle

Creeping thistle

Winter Cress

Hedge Garlic

Ground elder

Mallow

Fennel

Mint

Rape

Rosebay willow herb

Dead nettles

Chickweed

Shepherd’s purse

Wild chives

Sea purslane

Scurvy grass

Blanched Chicory tips

Sorrel Dock

Lambs Lettuce

Marjoram

Thyme

Water Cress

Stonecrop

Samphire

Fat hen

Goosefoot

Orache

Yarrow (for tea)

Roots

Dandelion (for tea)

Burdock

Horseradish (for condiment)

Wild Carrot

Wild Parsnip

Chicory (for tea)

Milk Thistle

Silverweed

Yarrow

Reed mace

Alexander’s

Fruits and nuts

Late plums

Damsons

Sloes

Rosehips (including large garden varieties)

Hawthorn berries (Cooked as a jam)

Gueldar Rose (Cooked as a jam). Never eat raw

Rowan (Cooked as a jam)

Crab apple (Cooked)

Wild Apples

Blackberries

Elderberries

Hazel nuts

Walnuts

Sweet Chestnuts

Beechnuts

Bilberries

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