 Nettle Fishcake with Samphire [Left] and Pollen-based ravioli [Right]
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Recognised as one of Britain's leading exponents of wild food Marcus Harrison runs wild food workshops
and courses out of the picturesque town of Lostwithiel in Cornwall. He has given talks on the subject at
the Natural History Museum and Eden Project, for the National Trust, Slow Food Cornwall and Port Eliot LitFest among others. His interest in the subject began more than 30 years ago, and in the mid-1980s Marcus began to collate data on the edible wild. Today he is involved in extensive historical research that is unravelling many of the misconceptions about alternative wild food sources and which brings Marcus into contact with academic gurus like Professor Gordon Hillman with whom he swaps notes from time to time.
 Nettles spiced up with Chorizo & onion
On a more down-to-earth front Marcus is working with |
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Anyone with a keen interest in bushcrafting has probably seen Marcus at the Wilderness Gathering where he has run workshops for several years, and also at the BCUK Moot in South Wales where he met up with legendary survival skills guru Mors Kochansky [Below] and swapped notes on differences between Mors' native Albertan edible wild greens and those of our own country.
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 Wild berries... Spot the toxic ones? |
When starting out foraging for the first time it is important to be safe. As time goes on you'll find that identifying plants becomes easier while knowing how to transform them into something tasty becomes second nature. And you never know, you might just find foraging for your own free food a really enjoyable way to spend your time in the countryside. More details of Wild Food School below... |
