Nomad Foraging

Nomad Foraging offering foraging walks for complete beginners and those with some experience.

Step into the mind of your ancestors and reconnect to the landscape through the smell, taste and folklore of our wild edible and medicinal plants.

Garlic mustard/Jack-by-the-hedge(Alliaria petiolata) Garlic mustard is a member of the mustard family (brassicaceae). A ...
10/05/2022

Garlic mustard/Jack-by-the-hedge
(Alliaria petiolata)

Garlic mustard is a member of the mustard family (brassicaceae). A lot of our farmed vegetables a members of the same family.

Look for busts of cross shaped white flowers and the distinctive, fairly large, opposite paired, heart shaped leaves. Grows to about 1m tall. Crush a leaf and you will get an instant aroma of garlic and mustard.

Very commonly found in damp shady places, along hedgerows, country lanes, shady woodland.

As the name suggests it has a strong garlic/mustard flavour however, some people get an overpowering after taste of paracetamol. Unfortunately I am one of those people.

There wasnt much use of garlic mustard herbally in the past although the leaves are effective at relieving asthma and eczema and have antibacterial properties when applied topically.

Get out and see if you are one of the lucky ones to not get the paracetomol aftertaste!

Tread lightly 🌿

Meadowsweet(Filipendula ulmaria) Grows on woodland edges, wet ground, edges of country lanes and meadows.Another very co...
07/05/2022

Meadowsweet
(Filipendula ulmaria)

Grows on woodland edges, wet ground, edges of country lanes and meadows.

Another very common and safe to identify edible plant for beginner foragers.

Has unmistakable white fluffy flowers at the end of summer but can still be easily identified in spring. Look for paired opposite leaves off of a red stem, with tiny pairs of leaflets in between the main leaves. This is a defining feature of meadowsweet. The leaves when crushed have a pleasant, sweet smell that is similar to germaline.

The flowers can be dried and used as a flavouring to drinks and makes a really good vinaigrette when put into cider vinegar. The leaves make a pleasant tea.

Meadowsweet was one of the three most sacred herbs to the druids and has been used as an effective herbal medicine for thousands of years.

The flowers contain the anti inflammatory salicylic acid from which aspirin is synthesized however, the combination of constituents in meadowsweet protect the inner lining of the stomach, preventing gastric laceration that can be caused by high doses of synthesized aspirin.

Meadowsweet is also traditionally a useful medicine in treating diarrhoea, especially in children.

Big love.

Tread lightly.

Back at the hostel after my first three day stint in the Brecons.Felt so good to take my boots off and chill out under t...
05/05/2022

Back at the hostel after my first three day stint in the Brecons.

Felt so good to take my boots off and chill out under this apple tree in blossom.

Tread lightly 💚

Wood sorrel(Oxalis acetosella) First wild thing I munched on on my trip in wales and it's one of my faves! Very easy to ...
05/05/2022

Wood sorrel
(Oxalis acetosella)

First wild thing I munched on on my trip in wales and it's one of my faves!

Very easy to identify and safe for beginner foragers. Looks very similar to clover with the three leaves on top of the stem. Although only grows in shady, damp areas in woodland or old dry stone walls where clover generally wont grow. Clover is also edible so it doesnt matter if you mix the two.

If you spot the flower with white petals and pink stripes, you can be certain its wood sorrel.

It tastes of green apple peel and is delicious added to salads.

The leaves can also help predict the weather as they close up when it's about to rain.

WARNING:
All sorrels contain high amounts of oxalic acid which can cause kidney stones in high doses. Should be consumed sparingly and not by pregnant women or anyone with previous kidney problems.

Tread lightly 💚

04/05/2022

Update.



Spring has sprung and were back! Back to basics foraging walks will be running again every Sunday in mid cornwall - dont...
08/03/2022

Spring has sprung and were back!

Back to basics foraging walks will be running again every Sunday in mid cornwall - dont miss out on the early spring gems 🌱

Send us a message for all the info 🤙

Big love. Tread lightly.

From tree to plate. 🌲One of my favourite wild edibles!Chicken of the woods (laetiporus sulphureus) is one of the absolut...
30/07/2021

From tree to plate. 🌲

One of my favourite wild edibles!

Chicken of the woods (laetiporus sulphureus) is one of the absolute best vegan alternatives for chicken. It's free, organic and fairly common.

I think it's best breadcrumbed, fried and made into goujons or a vegan chicken burger but can be used as any normal chicken alternative. Best picked when it's still young and tender as it gets woody and acrid tasting with age.

Fruits from May to August in large yellow brackets on Oak, Cherry, Willow, Sweet Chestnut and Yew. There is debate wether the fungus absorbs any of the poison taxine when it's growing on Yew. If you do harvest some that's growing on Yew, make absolutely sure that no debris from the tree whatsoever is left on the fungus when you cook it as every part of the Yew tree contains high levels of taxine.

Can look similar to dryads saddle and blackening polypore when young, but both of these are also edible so this is a good mushroom to find if your a beginner forager.

Tread lightly.

Website now live! Check out: www.nomadforaging.co.ukMassive thanks to for designing it for me as well as taking over th...
30/07/2021

Website now live!

Check out: www.nomadforaging.co.uk

Massive thanks to for designing it for me as well as taking over the online marketing side of things.

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Felt so lucky to of had the time to go out wild camping again! Things were getting hectic and was really craving a prolo...
26/07/2021

Felt so lucky to of had the time to go out wild camping again!

Things were getting hectic and was really craving a prolonged period of time in nature with just the bare essentials.

Felt so refreshed after really being able to plug back in again, and sharing the experience with a few good friends.

Hope your all doing good and have had the time to recharge and reconnect with nature recently.

Tread lightly 🌲❤

How nice has this weeks weather been! Surf was flat but just means a lot more time for foraging :)Had such a lovely priv...
24/07/2021

How nice has this weeks weather been! Surf was flat but just means a lot more time for foraging :)

Had such a lovely private foraging walk last weekend. Thanks so much hayley for booking on and I'm looking forward to seeing you on the next one.

Sorry I've not posted for a while I've been so busy with other commitments but I've got a back log of posts waiting that will be posted regularly.

Hopefully get to meet some more of you soon!

Tread lightly 🌿

Back to basics foraging walks will be available every Sunday! Will include the foraging walk as well as a copy of Nomad ...
11/06/2021

Back to basics foraging walks will be available every Sunday!

Will include the foraging walk as well as a copy of Nomad Foragings wild recipe guide.

£30 per person.

Please contact me for more info, booking and any enquiries.

Hopefully see you soon!

Tread lightly 🍀❤🌲

One of my favourite spring edibles! Pignut (conopodium majus) is one of the two members of the apiaceae (carrot) family ...
11/06/2021

One of my favourite spring edibles!

Pignut (conopodium majus) is one of the two members of the apiaceae (carrot) family that I deem worth foraging.

The apiaceae family, also known as umbellifers, has some of Britain's most toxic plants in them. Some of them can look very similar to other edible species, and a lot of the other edibles havent got much substance to them and, if anything, are best used as herbs.

But not pignut. In the early spring, the fairly unique leaf structure pops up from last autumn leaves, often in large patches in ancient woodland. Pignut is actually one of the plants that can be used as an ancient woodland indicator.

When you spot these bright green feathery leaves, you can carefully dig down following the stem until you find the relatively large underground tuber.

Once dug up, the skin easily scratches off leaving you with a tasty woodland snack that tastes like a cross between hazelnut and a water chestnut.

Excellent source of carbs which are fairly hard to come by in the wild. Make sure you get them before the plant has flowered as the tubers will have shrunk and used up there energy.

Remember you need the landowners permission to dig up any plant. Always follow the stem without breaking it! It's the only sure way you can know the tuber you dig up is pignut.

As always, double check your plant ID with several resources and be 100% sure before you eat anything.

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