DORSET (Worth Mertravers) – June 15th Foraging wild food, wild medicine and wild stories.

About This Walk

Dorset Foraging wild food, wild medicine and wild stories, Worth Mertravers June 14th.  A walk through the Dorset countryside starting and finishing at one of the greatest pubs in England the Square and Compass at Worth Mertravers.

This was one of my favourite walks last year from the pub down through the village, across the fields to the quarry by the coast. We were spoiled with the weather and the number of incredible plants we encountered.

The National Trust own this land but have given me special permission to walk here, forage here and even uproot some plants if I want…that’s rare.

Here’s what you’ll learn;

What you can and cannot eat
Wild flavours
Medicinal properties
Good foraging practice and sustainability
History, myth, stories and folklore
A light hearted look at the subject with some ludicrous facts and stories thrown in.

A list of plants I made at the time just to give you an idea of what’s there:

1. Thistle 
2. Ragwort 
3. White clover? 
4. Daisy 
5. Curled dock 
6. Elder 
7. Buttercup 
8. Ribwort Plantain 
9. Common mallow
10. Oxide Daisy 
11. Blackthorn 
12. Sycamore 
13. Salad burnet 
14. Greater Plantain 
15. Sow thistle 
16. Stinking Bob 
17. Ivy 
18. Old man’s beard 
19. Teasel 
20. Sea kale 
21. Valerian rubus
22. Rock samphire
23. Birdsfoot trefoil 
24. Queen Anne’s lace 
25. Fireweed 
26. Vetch. 26
27. Dog rose 
28. Goose grass 
29. Woody nightshade 
30. Hogweed 
31. Box 
32. Harts tongue fern 
33. Horse chestnut 
34. Wood avens 
35. Mugwort 
36. Nettle 
37. Woundwort 
38. Cow parsley 
39. Agrimony 
40. Yarrow 
41. Brassica 
42. Flea dart 42
43. Burdock 
44. Lesser trefoil 
45. Alkanet 
46. Tutsan 
47. Butterbur
48. Fuschia
49. Yew 
50. Spurge 
51. Dandelion. 
52. Fennel 
53. Wild clary
54. Charlock
55. Lulworth skipper – Tor grass
56. Broom rape