Wild Foods - Free Foods

As growers we tend to forget that everything we grow is bred from a wild cousin and that there are a lot of plants that grow happily in the wild we can harvest and eat.

Most of us know about blackberry picking and picking wild mushrooms but the variety that is out there, free for the picking is tremendous.

I'm very grateful to Stephen Watts who submitted the articles in this section.

Wild Food by Stephen Watts

Wild food is about our relationshp with food and nature, the bounty of free natural food from the wild and how things interact in nature.

Everything is Food - Edible Plants by Stephen Watts

The introduction to Stephen's fascinating series about the edible and useful plants growing wild in the Sheffield area of England, UK

Edible Plants - Trees by Stephen Watts

Here Stephen discusses trees that are, amazingly, edible. I was surprised to find you could yew berries, which I thought were poisonous

Edible Plants - Fruit Trees and Shrubs by Stephen Watts

As well as 'normal' fruit trees you can find dog rose and bilberries growing wild in the Sheffield area of England, UK.

Free food and wild foods are self-sufficiency topics covered in our book, Low Cost Living.

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Edible Plants - Blackberries by Stephen Watts

Does he need to tell you of the joys of blackberry picking? Apparently so, there's some great tips in here about blackberry picking.

Edible Plants - Perennial Greens by Stephen Watts

You may have heard of eating stinging nettles, but there is more to be found growing wild. Garlic, dandelion, chickweed, garlic mustard, sorrel and more.

Edible Plants - Herbs by Stephen Watts

Many of us have a herb garden but Stephen prefers to find his herbs growing wild.

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