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Wild Yorks Foraging Walks

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Wild Yorks Foraging Walks

Fun, affordable wild food walks with an emphasis on confident identification, sustainable and safe foraging and the benefits of getting outdoors.

07/06/2022

Wild strawbs spotted! Gonna head back to this spot in a few weeks 🤞

06/06/2022

I have a wild food walk coming up Saturday 11th of June!

If you fancy learning to identify some wild edible plants, foraging and the law, plants to avoid, where/how much to forage and some wild food recipes why not book yourself a place through my Eventbrite or my website? Link in bio✌️

06/06/2022

Another benefit to foraging is how incredibly good for you some wild food is, and how it can grow on your door step.

Let’s take the Common Nettle (Urtica Dioica) This plant is often considered a nuisance, and many think that it’s stinging leaves render it inedible. This plant is in fact a superfood! And contains Potassium, Iron, Magnesium, Protein, Calcium and Vitamin C!

It also grows pretty much everywhere, so is easily harvested with a pair of gloves. Let’s consider how different things would be if we were to purchase this plant from a supermarket.

Well, firstly there would be the price tag that comes with the label of “superfood” but we would also need to consider the refrigerated vans that would transport the plant from the field it was cultivated in to the supermarket shelves, these are referred to as “food miles.” The field in question would usually be treated with pesticides to kill insects and herbicides to kill weeds (expect to pay extra for organic) and the land would be given over to a mono-culture, preventing important plant diversity.

An incredible benefit of wild food foraging is that it involves little to no food miles. Even if you need to jump on a bus or train to get to a good patch of green, it’s still much much less than the food miles supermarket vans rack up whilst driving all over the country. It really is local in every sense of the word, which in turn means it’s always as fresh as possible. You can harvest a plant and be happily eating it within the next hour, improving the taste and preventing nutrient depletion, this is something that’s just not possible with supermarket bought food.

Foraging for wild food means you can have free, delicious superfoods growing on your door step, without any of the associated food miles, pesticides, herbicides, land given over to a mono-culture, plastic packaging or price tag.

To learn more, and to get up close and personal with some wild edibles, why not join one of my forgoing walks? Link in bio 🌱

01/06/2022

WILD GREENS TOFU SCRAMBLE🍴

Okay, full disclosure, I made two slices of this, but got too excited and ate one before taking any photos.

I posted a reel about how I make this vegan scramble over on my Instagram, wildyorksforagingwalks It’s my favourite breakfast because not only is it delicious but it’s healthy too!

01/06/2022

From wild food to home grown! 🥦🥬🫑

I’ve always loved gardening, but this year is my first go at a proper veg bed, I’m absolutely loving it so far. I’ve started everything off in my spare bedroom, and they’ll be transferred to organic raised beds once they’re ready.

There is something so satisfying about planting a seed, caring for it and watching it grow. I wish I’d have gotten some better footage of when they were all still little seedlings (there’s some in my “Home Grown 2022” highlight, but Instagram has butchered the quality so it looks like it was filmed with a home grown potato 😆)

Today is a potting on day, these little radishes need more room!

30/05/2022

PLANT SPOTLIGHT: DANDELION 🌼
(Taraxacum Officinale)

This humble plant offers so many fantastic uses! The roots can be ground up and made into a coffee substitute, the young leaves can be added to salads and the older ones cooked with butter. The flower heads can be sprinkled as a topper or used to make Dandelion Honey!

They’re hardy, and grow pretty much anywhere (but mainly my front lawn.) Their big, beautiful yellow flowers appear in Spring, then die back to leave over wintering rosettes in the colder months.

They could be confused with Hawkweed, which is leggier with thinner stems and round leaves, or more commonly Cat’s Ear, which has hairy leaves instead of the dandelion’s smooth ones. Neither of it’s look-a-likes are toxic, but it’s always worth being entirely sure what you’re eating.

Address

Shibden Valley
Halifax
HX37TB

Opening Hours

Saturday	11am - 4pm
Sunday	11am - 1pm

Website

https://www.wildyorksforagingwalks.com/

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