Wild food and forager walk

• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  1 March 2013     18:14218170
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  Sunday 3rd March 2pm
  WILD FOOD & FORAGER WALK (Please book)
  Discover what wild foods you can use this time of year. Bring a bag or
  basket with you, and we can collect leaves as we go. Some wild food
  recipes will be available for you to sample and a recipe sheet to take
  home. It will be muddy and wet in some places so please come suitably
  shod! Please book a place on 01304 241806 (WCCP). Donation appreciated.
  LEADER: Melanie Wrigley, White Cliffs Countryside Partnership
  (01304 241806 or 07880 706990). MEET: Whitfield Village hall car
  park, Manley Close, Whitfield, Dover, CT16 3LY.
  
  distance 3. 75 miles 2.5 - 3 hours
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  1 March 2013     18:16218172
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  just in case you are no good at it take some sandwiches along.
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  18 March 2013     18:54220900
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  jax tanner of jax arts has kindly sent us some photos from the walk.
  
  one we see regularly around the area - sea cabbage.
  
  

  

  
  
  

  

  
  
  rock samphire
  
  

  

  
  
  

  
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  18 March 2013     19:05220902
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  all the above and these are edible.
  
  jews ear.
  
  

  

  
  
  gall.
  
  

  

  
  
  cleavers or goose grass.
  
  

  

  
  
  broad-leaved dock.
  
  

  

  
  
  the mystery hand in some of the photos belongs to mel wrigley of w.c.c.p
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  19 March 2013     15:45221077
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  these two are definitely not edible.
  
  

  

  
  
  

  
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  21 March 2013     19:28221524
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  winter heliotrope - lovely colour.
  
  
  

  

  
  
  red stems of dogwoos, used as kebab skewers apparently.
  
  

  

  
  
  then the point of the exercise, something to eat, here we have sea beet quiche.