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

Spring is the time of re-birth, fresh beginnings, longer days, wildlife migrations & when nutrient rich plants begin to stir from their winter slumber. Wild Garlic is one of Springs earliest, wild, green visitors and is one of my all time favourites. I love picking the fresh young leaves and nibbling on them as I walk, savouring their sweet, fiery, pungent flavours, reveling and delighting as the warm oils coat my tongue and gums, making them tingle: a truly joyful and utterly sensorial delight! Ramsons, a common name given to this herb, appear prior to the emerging foliage of deciduous trees, enabling this clever and adaptive plant to take full advantage of the early, spring sunshine: and who doesn't like to do that? Gentle ambling, combined with keen, careful observation, will enable you to really focus and zone in on your surrounding habitat. Remember to look in warm, sunny and sheltered locations for signs of early season growth - I recently discovered a woodland wher...