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This is where things slow down.
A place to make sense of wild food and the living landscape without the usual noise, urgency or endless lists of things you apparently ought to know.
You’ll find seasonal observations, practical foraging knowledge, stories from the field, wild food and the occasional deeper thought about plants, people and place.
Deep thoughts and dry humour included.
See what lands in your inbox
The newsletter is where I share the things I’m noticing, learning and thinking about as I spend time with plants.
- Sometimes that’s a plant appearing for the first time that season.
- Sometimes it’s a story from a walk, a useful bit of identification knowledge, or a simple way to bring something wild into the kitchen.
- And sometimes it’s a longer thought about food, land, attention or our relationship with nature.
This is the sort of thing I send.
What you’ll find inside
Seasonal plants
What’s actually happening around us now. What is appearing, changing, fruiting or flowering, and what is worth paying attention to. Not a generic calendar of what you should be finding. The seasons don’t always read the same script.
Foraging knowledge
How to look at plants properly, what details matter, and how to build confidence without trying to memorise everything at once. The aim isn’t to fill your head with more names. It’s to help you recognise what you’re looking at.
Wild Food
Practical ways to use wild plants in an ordinary kitchen. Simple ideas, useful techniques and recipes that don’t require a Michelin star, fourteen ingredients and an afternoon you don’t have. (Mostly!)
Field Notes
Stories and observations from walks, woods, hedgerows and the places where plants actually grow. The little things you might miss if you’re always rushing towards the next identification.
Longer Thinking
Sometimes we’ll go beyond identification and recipes. Attention, tradition, food, land, culture and what happens when you start seeing the landscape a little differently.
Here’s what readers say:
Hi Alvaro, just want to say what a great resource your news letters, ebook and website are. As an amateur outdoor enthusiast and keen forager, I have often referred to your site as a resource.
So grateful to you for providing information, in which a considerable amount of work and collation has been done for all followers benefit. Whilst I’m sure many followers have a rudimentary knowledge, your hard work and research has benefited many people. Informative and extremely well presented.
I would like to say a great big thank you for all your knowledge and foraging advice. I love to forage when I can and I try all the things you say and advise in your posts.
I’m not interested in plant memorisation
I’m interested in helping you become familiar with them.
That means learning to recognise patterns, notice changes through the seasons, pay attention to where plants grow and gradually build the sort of confidence that comes from having actually met a plant several times.
Familiarity over memorisation.
Field memory over phone memory.
Because knowing a plant is rather different from remembering which photograph you saw on your screen.
Who is it for?
If you’re new to foraging, this is a calm place to start.
You don’t need Latin names, specialist equipment or the confidence of someone who already knows what they’re doing. You can simply start by paying attention.
If you’ve been foraging for years, there’s room here for you too.
Less novelty, more understanding. Fewer lists, more judgement. A chance to refine how you see and choose, rather than endlessly adding more plants to the pile.
What should you expect?
Usually one email a week, with the occasional extra note when there’s something particularly worth sharing.
More when the seasons are busy.
Less when the land is quiet.
There’ll be no complicated membership, no obligation to reply and no hard feelings if you unsubscribe. Just a note from me when I have something worth putting in front of you.
Come along, join the newsletter below.
If you’d like to learn the plants around you a little more slowly, I’ll see you in your inbox. The kettle’s on.
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Readers also say:
Thanks for the proverbial kick up the backside 😊 as otherwise I'd have never headed out in the first place. The only problem now is I want to know what every plant/fungi I see is! I an see his becoming an obsession very soon.
Since coming across your foraging site, my daughter and me have been totally absorbed in searching out and recognising edible berries and plants. It is very addictive! I have never seen so much food on our doorstep.
Checking my inbox, saw your email &:thought 'YES' !. It evokes & uplifts the soul & spirit forager hibernating within me.