Edible Leeds - Wild Food Foraging Courses and 4 Wild Seasons Pop Up Dining Events

As some of you will know, spring heralds the return of the wild alliums; Wild Garlic, 3 Cornered Leek, Few Flowered Leek, Chives, Rosy Garlic, Crow Garlic and others. Wild Alliums, in particular, the first 3 species from the above list, receive much attention from me as they are super prolific in areas that I frequently forage. Not only are they super abundant, they are exceptionally tasty and extremely versatile, providing plenty opportunity for a raft of dishes and preserves. Annual Allium tasks that keep me busy during spring are the creating of; pesto's, flavoured oils, lacto-fermentations, protein curds, flavoured butters, pickles and flavoured salts (using smoked and dehydrated leaves). I also love creating simple and tasty dishes from the fresh leaves, unopened flower heads, open flowers and seeds, in raw form and cooked. So far this season (April 2021), I've made and crafted;  2.5kg Wild Garlic Pesto 1.5kg Few Flowered Leek Pesto 1kg Lacto-fermented Few Flowered L...

Simply Spring! Delicious and nutritious all in approx 30 mins... Hogweed Soup w/ Few Flowered Leek Flower Heads & Primrose Blossoms - I added some wild garlic & few flowered leek foliage to the soup, alongside some other more familiar commercially available ingredients. There are some truly delicious spring herbs out there at the moment and they really do make meal times more divine. They taste far superior to the 'green' folks often think they taste. The myriad of different  flavour profiles is really quite staggering, whether you are eating them alone as a simple steamed, buttered dish, combining to make the most amazing raw salad you will ever taste or infusing with more commercial ingredients. These plants are the ancestors of each and every commercially grown fruit and vegetable you see and eat, there is a very deep, natural and ancestral link with them (it's nothing to be wary or cautious of and it's not hippy-dippy-far-out-shit either) and only when you ...