Tue, 31/03/2009 - 16:55 | 
If you’re a virgin forager and intend to spend some serious time rootling around the hedgerows then there are a few obvious but sensible ‘rules’. Never eat anything that you are unsure of, buy at least one plant identification book with clear photos (not drawings), pick from lane verges where there is little traffic and certainly from above and beyond dog pee level!! Never take all the plants from one area, and never but NEVER dig them up. There are helpful websites with countryside ‘rules’, which also list plants that it is illegal to pick.
Welcome aperitif
Elderflower Champagne
Elderflowers from Newport environs
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Sea Purcelain soda bread
Kelp Bloomer
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Lovage cured St Dogmaels’ wild salmon, nettle blini, herbed crème fraiche
Herbs from Llys Meddyg Garden
Nettles gathered from along the Newport estuary
Wild Salmon caught by Len Walters of St. Dogmaels
Sea Purslane from Newport estuary
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Hand picked mussel and rock samphire soup
Mussels picked from Fishguard Harbour
Rock samphire from Pwll Gwaelod
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Rosehip and sweet Sicely sorbet
Rosehips and Sweet Sicely from Brynberian hedgerow
Britain’s first Really Wild Dining Club has launched in Pembrokeshire, embracing the recession by promoting free foraged food and great quality local ingredients cooked up by top class chefs.
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- The Really Wild Food & Countryside Festival is the friendliest and wildest festival in Britain, colourfully celebrating the food and activities of the Welsh countryside.
- Our aim is to get more children and adults into, and excited about, the countryside – foraging for food, enjoying the healthy benefits, learning what’s around them, having fun.
- We work to preserve, revive and hand on countryside traditions and stories for generations to come.
If you haven’t visited the friendliest festival of them all,
where have you been?!
"What's the buzz...?"
Ok....so the recession has hit almost everything except Mother Nature. Here she is, waking up from her wintery rest and ready to spend the year giving us fresh free food. It is time for our sluggish overwintered bodies to get woken up too, so natural spring tonics whose juices will cleanse our system are a must and common plants that are particularly helpful are goosegrass, nettle, and dandelion.
We're now bigger, brighter, better! Spring is here at last and there's lots going on. In addition to the Festival itself in September, we'll be running all sorts of new and interesting activities throughout the summer.
We're delighted to announce the inaugural Really Wild Dining Club evening; to be held at Morgans Restaurant in St Davids.
Every so often we get some press...
Of course, we'll only publish the good stuff here!
A recent blog entry on UKSeries.com...
We've been featured on the BBC website!
Click the picture to go straight to the story or go via to the BBC South West Wales page...
