We've had better summers than the current one. It's been raining a lot, the temperatures are a few degrees below the usual over-20...

Originally posted here . A well-known (and much-hated) garden pest, ground-elder ( Aegopodium podagraria , also known as bishop's w...

“Spring has sprung!” said the bumble bee. “How do you know?” said the old oak tree. “I just saw a daffodil blooming on a windy hill!” – An...

Early last month I shared a picture of our cloudberry bounty . This weekend K's mum gave us some photos of that forageing trip, and I th...

We spent couple of hours in our favourite forest and bog yesterday, taking home: Two litres of beautiful cloudberries (1.2 kg of berries af...

The wild garlic - also known as bear's garlic - is in season here in Estonia. The season is short, so I'm trying to eat as much as p...

From the recipe archives, updated in May 2009, orignally posted in May 2008. Ground-elder , you may wonder? Well, I wrote more about that he...

Collecting fresh birch sap in our back yard. For a few days now, we've been drinking lots of freshly collected birch sap instead of tab...

In every person's life there comes a time when they've got almost 1,5 kilograms freshly picked wild strawberries ( Fragaria vesca, s...

It's the brief season for wild garlic (aka ramsons or bear's garlic, Allium ursinum ), and I'm excited. I only discovered wild ...

We went to one last mushroom forageing trip on Saturday, and got a large basket of mushrooms. Sadly, the season is now over - night frosts a...

Ten days ago we spent few hours in the forest forageing for mushrooms again. It had been raining on the previous days, yet the temperatures ...

A fortnight ago, Ximena and I and our respective partners J. and K., went to a bog where we picked various forest berries , including lots ...

Click on the photo to enlarge! Here's a picture of some forest berries in their natural habitat. Starting from the top left corner: blue...

Bog bilberry ( Vaccinium uliginosum , sinikas or 'blue' berry in Estonian) is a close relative of bilberry ( Vaccinium myrtillus ...

A fortnight ago, K. and I spent a lovely weekend on Hiiumaa , Estonia's second-largest island, which you can reach in about an hour on a...

Have you ever had wild strawberries *, also known as woodland strawberries ? No? Well, imagine the best-tasting, ripe and just-picked strawb...

My mum has obviously realised that her older daughter (that's me) is 'into such things' - wild food & edible weeds, I mean. ...

All my regular readers know by now that I love mushrooms, especially wild ones . And although you can easily buy various fresh wild mushroom...