A Season in the Hedgerow: A Preview of What Is Ahead
If you have been reading the foraging blog for a while, you already know the plants. You have read about blackberries and anthocyanins, about elder from flower to berry, about crab apple pectin, and about what is in the hedgerows this August. You could keep reading about this — or you could come and do it.
What the season ahead looks like
Autumn is the richest season for foraging in Kent. The hedgerows shift from late-summer berries — blackberries, elderberries, wild plums — into the full autumn harvest: rosehips, sloes, hawthorn berries, hazelnuts, and crab apples, often all on the same walk. The light changes, the air changes, and the plants are at their most pharmacologically interesting.
From reading to doing
The blog gives you the science. The walks give you the practice. On a guided workshop, you will see these plants in their real habitat, learn to identify them with confidence, taste them fresh, and take home a harvest to use in your own kitchen. It is the difference between reading about foraging and foraging.
If you have been waiting for the right time, this is it. The autumn workshops will cover everything you have been reading about, in person, in the Kent countryside.
