United Kingdom
I write freelance articles on gardening, outdoor survival, homesteading and history.
I also run my own business teaching people about wild foods, including full day cookery courses over an open fire using ancient techniques.
How to make flours out of wild plants
Kathryn Clover explains how to prepare and eat wild thistles
Kathryn Clover interviews straw plaiter Veronica Main
Fireflies are carnivorous when in their larval stage. They inject their snail, worm, or slug prey with a paralyzing chemical. The adult beetles eat mainly nectar, but also pollen and other fireflies. Some adults do not eat at all. Fireflies are not actually flies! They are insects, but they are beetles.
The seeds within pine cones are not only edible, but they are also tasty! You can also eat many other parts of the 121 species of pine tree, including their bark and leaves. Many trees of the genus Pinus have edible seeds, but some of them are very small.
A fjord is a narrow, deep, and steep-sided inlet. It is formed when a glacier retreats and carves the shape of the fjord as it leaves. Sea water then takes its place, often extending below sea level. The name 'fjord' means 'where you travel across' in Norwegian.
The Grand Union Canal, or G.U.C., is a 137-mile-long, 220-year-old man-made channel of once purely functional water. It is now long relieved of its original vocation of channeling industrialised loads of coal and aggregates between the great smoking behemoths of London and Birmingham.
Kathryn Clover shows how to make birch bark baskets and the uses of birch.
Kathryn Clover interviews Arctic expedition team Sub Zero Crew
Kathryn Clover explains how to prepare and cook wild snails
Detailed tutorial and memoirs of crayfish trapping using a willow trap.
Foraging tutor Kathryn Clover introduces edible weeds of the allotment.
Urban Huntress Well, I'll be a monkey's niece! Monkey Puzzle trees produce these amazing big edible nuts! Okay. They're actually seeds, but I like calling them nuts since we're all familiar with pine nuts. And, yes, those are actually seeds as well. Araucaria araucana (a.k.a.
Interview with traditional wooden boat restorers AP Boats
Kathryn Clover interviews farmers at Green Broom low impact Co-op farm
Kathryn Clover meets 4 inspiring live aboard craft workers!
The history of Bedfordshire's straw plait industry.
