Wild Edge

Wild Edge We’re thrilled to announce that we are now Wild Edge! 🍃✨ Alongside this work, we also seek to preserve and share the knowledge of heritage crafts.

We’re evolving! 🎉 As many of you know, The Family Foraging Kitchen has always been about reconnecting with nature, exploring wild food, and embracing biodiversity. We are a social enterprise that provides communities with wild food education, through foraging walks, cookery classes, and free food initiatives. A percentage of profit made from our ticketed walks and courses allows us to provide the

same service, for free, to those experiencing local food poverty in our community. We believe that all people should have access to wild food education and the confidence to access nutritious, sustainable, local, fresh food. For every walk or course you purchase from The Family Foraging Kitchen – you help to provide a local Cornish family the skills to find free food forever. There is a good deal of fear and misinformation surrounding the use and consumption of wild plants, and we believe the best way to combat this is to share knowledge about how these plants can be used. Modern agricultural methods have meant that foraging, once a part of our ancestral daily life, has faded away, replaced by regular family trips to the supermarket. We are now disconnected from the food that we eat. Given the ecological, social and environmental crisis that we now face globally, humanity needs to - rather urgently and radically - examine its relationship with food and how we acquire it. Foraging is about more than just food and nourishment; it gets us out into the countryside, helps to cultivate an intimate appreciation of nature, lets us explore history, science and folklore; can bond families, strengthen communities and reestablish connections severed by modern life. Fall in love with the hedgerow. Inspire younger generations to learn traditional skills and knowledge. Get truly wild in your kitchen. Take an edible journey and explore the beautiful Rame Peninsula.

The first of this season’s blackberries are here on the Rame Peninsula. Here are mine, pickling in some home made magnol...
01/07/2025

The first of this season’s blackberries are here on the Rame Peninsula. Here are mine, pickling in some home made magnolia (think hints of ginger) vinegar and some wild onion seeds.

01/07/2025
30/06/2025

Cornwall's oldest tree has stood through much of the county's recorded history

Warm Buckwheat Salad with Chinese-Glazed Chicken, Wild Greens & Orange-Pomegranate DressingA feast for the eyes and body...
29/06/2025

Warm Buckwheat Salad with Chinese-Glazed Chicken, Wild Greens & Orange-Pomegranate Dressing

A feast for the eyes and body, this dish brings together East Asian warmth, wild Cornish coastal greens, and the sweet zing of summer fruits — all grounded on the nutty goodness of soaked buckwheat groats.

🌾 Ingredients

2 chicken breasts, marinated in Chinese-style sauce (soy, garlic, ginger, 5-spice, honey)
1 cup buckwheat groats (soaked 5 hours, then boiled 12 mins and cooled)
A handful of wild orache (young leaves, roughly chopped)
A few sprigs of rock samphire (lightly sautéed with oil)
A small handful of cherry tomatoes, blistered in a hot pan
Seeds from ½ a pomegranate
1 large orange (juice + zest + segments for garnish)
A few slices of cucumber, raw
Edible flower petals for garnish (nasturtium, calendula, etc.)
Olive oil or toasted sesame oil
Salt, pepper, and a pinch of chilli (optional)

🧑‍🍳 Method

Cook the Chicken: Pan-fry or grill your marinated chicken until crispy-edged and fully cooked. Let it rest, then slice thinly.
Cook the Buckwheat: Boil the soaked groats in water for 10–12 mins, drain and rinse under cold water. Season lightly.
Prepare Wild Greens: Sauté wild orache and samphire gently with a little oil and the cherry tomatoes until just wilted.
Make the Dressing: Whisk orange juice and zest with a glug of olive or sesame oil, season with salt and pepper.
Build Your Plate: Start with a mound of buckwheat, drizzle over the citrus dressing. Add sliced chicken, wild greens, tomatoes, cucumber, and pomegranate seeds. Finish with flower petals and orange segments.

🌸 Wild Tip

Use the greens within a day of picking — orache and samphire both lose their sparkle fast! And be generous with edible petals — they’re not just pretty, they carry trace minerals and pollinator power.

25/06/2025
Come join me on the estuary banks at Wacker Quay!Please share this post as far as you can! Book: www.wildedgeuk.comMany ...
25/06/2025

Come join me on the estuary banks at Wacker Quay!

Please share this post as far as you can!

Book: www.wildedgeuk.com

Many thanks,

Vix Ryder, of Wild Edge and formerly of The Family Foraging Kitchen!

25/06/2025

Get this date in your diary and come and help us celebrate at Zoo Field! Going to be a great day (please put in a good word for a dry day!)
Offer to help out will be much appreciated. We will be prepping and planning on Thursday 17th July - our regular Third Thursday event.

Bought some books to read on holiday. I’ve a feeling they’ll be long devoured before I get there. Exciting!
24/06/2025

Bought some books to read on holiday. I’ve a feeling they’ll be long devoured before I get there. Exciting!




Amazing thankyou gift from a happy customer! I may have gone on a little bit about my love of Coleoptera 🤭☺️❤️
19/06/2025

Amazing thankyou gift from a happy customer! I may have gone on a little bit about my love of Coleoptera 🤭☺️❤️

Wild Estuary & Woodland Foraging at Wacker Quay Sat 12 Jul | The Wacker Quay CarparkJoin us for a unique foraging walk...
19/06/2025

Wild Estuary & Woodland Foraging at Wacker Quay

Sat 12 Jul | The Wacker Quay Carpark

Join us for a unique foraging walk at Wacker Quay, a stunning Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) in SE Cornwall, where tidal estuary meets ancient woodland.

Buy Tickets: www.wildedgeuk.com
Time & Location
12 Jul 2025, 10:30 – 13:30
The Wacker Quay Carpark

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Rame Peninsula, SE
Torpoint
PL101BQ

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