HAMPSHIRE (Cheriton) – May 24th: Foraging, Wild Food, Wild Medicine and Wild Stories

Foraging, Wild Food, Wild Medicine and Wild Stories ! A wild food adventure walk through the Hampshire countryside from the historic village of Cheriton. This was our first walk last year on the same weekend and it didn’t disappoint. Walking through the village we discover just how many deadly plants surround the houses but also encounter water based plants like fools watercress.

Moving up onto the chalk downs the hedgerows are ablaze with life from nettles and thistles to willow herb and stitchwort. It’s a wonderful time of year to experience the English Countryside.

*Dogs welcome

*Kids (under 12) go free!

What you’ll learn

What you can and cannot eat
Wild flavours
Medicinal properties
Good foraging practice and sustainability
History, myth, stories and folklore
A light hearted look at the subject with some ludicrous facts and stories thrown in.

Here’s a list of some species you’ll see on the walk:

1. Goose grass 
2. Nettles 
3. Stinking Bob 
4. Cuckoo pint 
5. Yew
6. Ivy 
7. Wood avens
8. Doc
9. Ground elder 
10. Dogs mercury 
11. Cow parsley 
12. White dead, nettle 
13. Hogweed 
14. Silver weed
15. Ribwort, plantain 
16. Ground Ivy 
17. Dandelion 
18. Wilde garlic mustard 
19. Cranes, Bill
20. Thistle
21. Speedwell 
22. Greater plantain
23. Burdock 
24. Elder 
25. Rose Bay Willow herb
26. Field Maple
27. Lesser celandine
28. Dog rose
29. Yellow archangel
30. Hedge wound wort
31. Cross wort
32. Chickweed
33. creeping cinquefoil
34. Comfrey
35. Stitchwort 
36. Primrose
37. Ladies smock
38. Horse chestnut
39. Mouse ear, chickweed
40. Green Alkanet 
41. Red Campion
42. Periwinkle
43. Great mullein
44. Lilac
45. Wilde garlic