SPOTLIGHT
Offshoots: Pakistan
For as far back as she can remember, Chitral-born herbalist Bilquis Sheikh has reached for herbs and wild plants as the first form of defence. “If you have a broken bone and…
Aysha Imtiaz
12 June 2024
Offshoots: Hawai’i
Peppered with huge swathes of feathery amaranth, prickly breadfruit and trees bedazzled with exotic guava and mangoes, Hawaii has much more…
Aysha Imtiaz
11 June 2024
Why I forage: Emerald Devonshire
Oh, the day I went to get IVF treatment to try for my second daughter my mum was looking after my eldest. They had gone out for a walk together and she said she had found loads of wild garlic. So there I was, very potentially pregnant, and we decided to…
Kate Balding
9 June 2024
Why I forage: Adi Staempfli
I grew up in Switzerland and, being Swiss, foraging is really much…
Kate Balding
2 June 2024
Why I forage: Drew & Beth Nuttall
For me, it’s about connecting directly with a food source and…
Kate Balding
3 June 2024
Eva Outram on how a TV show changed her life
Imagine hacking through the forest, unsure where your next meal is coming from, far from civilisation and the trusty foraging books or internet we all rely on. It’s not the…
Rachel Keenan
26 May 2024
Offshoots:
Auckland
From pineapple flavoured feijoas to bush jellybeans, ecologist Bella Burgess spills the secrets to foraging in the land of the long white cloud…
Kate Balding
10 June 2024
Offshoots: San Francisco
For San Francisco Bay-area based Maria Finn, there are 72 seasons, not four. Instead of Summers moulting uneventfully into Autumn or Springs quietly blooming from Winter in a stark…
Aysha Imtiaz
2 June 2024