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>Wild & free: Foraging can prove rewarding and economical, with a host of native plants and fungi for the picking - as a display at the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show will demonstrate
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Wild & free: Foraging can prove rewarding and economical, with a host of native plants and fungi for the picking - as a display at the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show will demonstrate
SOMETHING FOR. NOTHING is always an attractive idea, but for me, collecting free, wild foods also conjures up vivid memories. From childhood I relished exploring the countryside, particularly in autumn, when we would go 'brambling', returning with hands and faces stained purple. I also fondly remember plump raspberries that fell readily into cupped hands; tiny, intensely flavoured, scarlet wild strawberries and refreshing wood sorrel (Oxalis acetosella), wonderfully astringent; and searching among springy, scratchy cushions of honeyscented heather on heaths for small, plump, bloomy-black bilberries.Foraging must surely be mankind's oldest activity, for together with hunting it fed our ancestors long before the adoption of farming, and carried on alongside it. Only since the industrial revolution have most people forgotten the bounty of wild foods.
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