If you look closely the small signs and signals of spring are all around. Like a faintly warmer breeze or the scent of the air in the morning. Quills of emerald wild garlic, crisp and perfumed, blanketing the floors of our woodland. Our Devon long banks begin to bite with nettles and dying ferns uncurl young growth all around us.
For me it’s a promising time to be cooking and I’m really looking forward to all the joys of spring. The asparagus, the early broad bean tops, St George's mushrooms, crisp radish, young carrots and sea kale.
On Monday 9 September John Wright, renowned mycologist and wild food fanatic of River Cottage fame, will give a talk on wild foraging – what to see, where and when to find it and how best to cook it.
John will be joining the EDDC Countryside team at the Axe Estuary Wetlands from 6.30 to 8.30pm.
John has written three River Cottage foraging handbooks – Mushrooms, The Edible Seashore and Hedgerows. This autumn his fourth handbook, Booze will be released. He is passionate about making beer, wine and other boozy treats from all sorts of ingredients to be found growing wild in...
