Whether you are new to foraging or not, foraging for wild food turns any walk in the countryside into a mini adventure. It’s also a great way to supplement your food shopping, help you to plan your meals and exciting new ingredients into your diet.
To help you to identify your plants, it’s best to get a pocket foraging guide book, so that you can always refer to a photo or illustration as you walk through the countryside.
A little note about my foraging calendar
I’ve included my favourite plants, mushrooms and other wild food that I like to collect through the year.
There are of course loads more plants you can collect and availability also depends on where you live. I’ll be adding more recipes as we go through the year as well as writing more in-depth descriptions about each foraging month.
I’ll be also adding more foraging recipes and blog posts about homemade natural cosmetics made with foraged plants.
january
- Cattail
- Chickweed
- Common Sorrel
- Nettle
- Wild Chervil
- Milkweed
- Black Mustard
- Dandelion Roots
recipes
february
- Wild Garlic
- Sorrel
- Alexander
- Mushrooms
- Nettle
- Chickweed
- Dandelion Roots
recipes
march
- Sweet Cicely
- Watercress
- Hogweed
- Dandelion Leaves
- Stinging Nettles
- Wild Violets
- Wild Sorrel Leaves
recipes
april
- Spearmint
- Fennel
- Clover
- Dandelion Flowers
- Plantain
- Wild Garlic
- Cow Parsley
- Mustard
recipes
may
- Wild Thyme
- Wild Mint
- Lime Flowers & Leaves
- Sorrel
- Chickweed
- Red Goosefoot
- Dandelion Flowers
recipes
june
- Elderflowers
- Marjoram
- Chamomile Flowers
- Wild Raspberries
- Honeysuckle
- Milkweed Flower Buds
recipes
july
- Silverweed
- Rose Petals
- Wild or Forest Strawberries
- Gooseberry
- Blueberries
- Bilberries
- St.John’s Wort Flowers
- Yarrow
- Gorse
- Meadowsweet
- Wood Sorrel
- Mallow
- Chickweed
- Chanterelle Mushrooms
recipes
august
- Wood Sorrel
- Plum
- Blackberries
- Blueberries
- Elderberries
- Crab Apples
- Apples
recipes
september
- Blackberry
- Sloe
- Hawthorn Berries
- Rosehips
- Walnuts
- Elderberries
- Hazelnuts
- Acorns
recipes
october
- Hawthorn Berry
- Fat Hen
- Damson
- Acorns
- Walnuts
- Hazelnuts
- Rosehips
- Sweet Chestnuts
- Crab Apples
recipes
november
- Sweet Chestnuts
- Winter Cress
- Oyster Mushrooms
- Chickweed
- Navelwort
- Winter Chanterelles
recipes
december
- Horseradish
- Wild Cabbage
- Mussels
- Cockles
- Marsh Samphire
recipes
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Magdalena
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