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Thanks for that... I thought it was tomorrow!! You are a star!
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Missed it again!!
I thought it was Thursday...
I thought it was Thursday...
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Pity! Lots of good foraging tips, I was especially interested in Sea Buckthorn which produces fruits from august through to spring, apparently fairly easy to grow away from the coast as well, very hardy (copes with temperatures between -43'C and +40'C and only requires irrigation in areas with <400mm (16") annual rainfall), and is abundantly healthy if a bit acid. Hmm off to find some seedlings then :)
Oh yes, I also forgot that it can provide up to 15 tonnes of fruit per hectare :)
Oh yes, I also forgot that it can provide up to 15 tonnes of fruit per hectare :)
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I enjoyed Ep 3 last night, about foraing along waterways - catching fish (obviously) and also eating the rootstems of greater reed mace and the seeds of yellow water lilies. They spat the water lily seeds out, even after they had fermented them for a week and ground them up and made them into a sort of cake they still tasted too bitter to eat.
Interesting stuff about nettles - instead of boiling them he wilted them over a direct flame and said they were the best way of eating nettles he'd tried. Sort of flame grilled nettles. That's do-able at home. And I liked his rant about the use of aluminium foil when cooking, and alternatives using big leaves etc. Oh, and baking goose eggs in the embers of a fire. There were lots of good bits.
Before the series started I assumed it would be about the tye of foraging we do, a sort of HFW rip-off. But it's more archeaological isn't it? It's good anyway.
Interesting stuff about nettles - instead of boiling them he wilted them over a direct flame and said they were the best way of eating nettles he'd tried. Sort of flame grilled nettles. That's do-able at home. And I liked his rant about the use of aluminium foil when cooking, and alternatives using big leaves etc. Oh, and baking goose eggs in the embers of a fire. There were lots of good bits.
Before the series started I assumed it would be about the tye of foraging we do, a sort of HFW rip-off. But it's more archeaological isn't it? It's good anyway.
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I missed it on Wednesday - I MUST remember to watch the repeat on Saturday. Flame grilled nettles with baked goose eggs... oooh yum!! I can't WAIT for my geese to start laying. Could make goose eggs with nettle florentine LOLChickpea wrote:
Interesting stuff about nettles - instead of boiling them he wilted them over a direct flame and said they were the best way of eating nettles he'd tried. Sort of flame grilled nettles. That's do-able at home. And I liked his rant about the use of aluminium foil when cooking, and alternatives using big leaves etc. Oh, and baking goose eggs in the embers of a fire. There were lots of good bits.
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Repeat is on Sunday this week (I WISH THEY WOULD MAKE THEIR MINDS UP!) at 7pm... at least it is that time and day for Scotland.
Shirley
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I agree. I'm waiting for him to show us how you can get all your necessary nutrients from couchgrass, bind weed, docks and brambles, and then I can give up digging, weeding, buying seeds etc. for ever!Kev wrote:It is archeaological and really interesting. Its amazing that plants most people ignore today or regard as pest's were once a staple diet.
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http://www.pfaf.org/database/plants.php ... gia+sepium
Just be careful eating your bindweed, it says it's a purgeative
http://www.pfaf.org/database/plants.php ... tusifolius
Dock too :)
Sorry couldn't find couchgrass http://www.readymademag.com/feature_6_sodcouch.php
Just be careful eating your bindweed, it says it's a purgeative
http://www.pfaf.org/database/plants.php ... tusifolius
Dock too :)
Sorry couldn't find couchgrass http://www.readymademag.com/feature_6_sodcouch.php
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