Foraging, Folk Herbalism, Edible Weeds + Inspiration for a Slow Life

It’s an abundantly delicious time of year to make a wild salad. At the moment my salads are overflowing with the fresh green growth of late win...

~ Miner's Lettuce going to seed ~ This is one of those plants that you sow once, and will have reappear by the thousands year after year, sm...

~ NZ Beach Spinach (Tetragonia spp.) ~ Coastal foraging trips usually yield a basketful of abundant Beach Spinach for dinner. Many people associa...

~ Wintercress (Barbarea vulgaris) ~ Wintercress is one of those wonderful edible weeds that seems to appear just when fresh garden greens are b...

~ Hairy Bittercress ~ (Cardamine hirsuta) There's a real flush of wild edible weeds appearing at the moment, and Hairy Bittercress is spreading...

Worried about petrol prices? Forget about your car, what about food prices when imports are impacted and the trucks can't get food to your superma...

~ Dahlia ~ I bet you didn't know dahlia's are edible? Most people see dahlia as purely ornamental, all color and form, but it actually has ...

~ Hairy Bittercress ~ (Cardamine hirsuta) It feels like spring has already arrived in my garden: fresh shoots, sudden bursts of life, and a scatte...

The Nasturtium's are coming away, looking large & luscious with all of their brightly colored flowers to brighten up salads.During Sunday's For...

Gathering a wild salad from my wild garden. Wild in my garden? Yes, everything pictured is growing in what is supposed to be the 'pathway' to my 'o...

Homegrown Fruit & Vege I mentioned to a friend the other day that I haven't been buying any fruit or vege this year (other than potato, oni...

A few days ago a whole lot of Onion Weed came out of my garden & there was only one thing to do with so many big, fat, juicy onion weed bulbs...