HAMPSHIRE (Cheriton) – June 7th Hedgerow Foraging, Wild Food, Wild Medicine and Wild Stories

About This Walk

Another chance to visit the wonderful village of Cheriton in Hampshire nestled in the chalk downs. Starting from the fantastic Flower Potts Inn we’ll walk down the valley and then up onto the downs. This unique chalk landscape is home to some species not so common on other soils so it’s a real treat.

*Dogs welcome

*Kids (under 12) go free!

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.

Some of the plant species we found last time:

1. Goose grass 
2. Nettles 
3. Stinking Bob 
4. Cuckoo pint 
5. Yew
6. Ivy 
7. Wood avens
8. Doc
9. Ground elder 
10. Dogs mercury 
11. Cow parsley 
12. White dead, nettle 
13. Hogweed 
14. Silver weed
15. Ribwort, plantain 
16. Ground Ivy 
17. Dandelion 
18. Wilde garlic mustard 
19. Cranes, Bill
20. Thistle
21. Speedwell 
22. Greater plantain
23. Burdock 
24. Elder 
25. Rose Bay Willow herb
26. Field Maple
27. Nessa Celine
28. Dog rose
29. Yellow archangel
30. Hedge wound wort
31. Cross wort
32. Chickweed
33. creeping cinquefoil
34. Comfrey
35. Stitchwort 
36. Primrose
37. Ladies, smock
38. Horse chestnut
39. Mouse ear, chickweed
40. Green Alkanet 
41. Red Campion
42. Periwinkle
43. Great mullein
44. Lilac
45. Wilde garlic