OXFORDSHIRE (Charlbury) – September 20th Foraging wild food, wild medicine and wild stories.

About This Walk

A wander through the Oxfordshire countryside looking at early autumn plants and berries. The summer will be over but there’s still plenty to talk about. Our ancestors would have been preparing for winter and gathering what they could, so what is there? We’ll talk about:

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.

Here’s a list of plants we talked about last time:

1. Ground ivy 
2. Ivy 
3. Cuckoo pint 
4. Nettles 
5. Blackthorn 
6. Dock 
7. Greater plantain 
8. Hogweed 
9. Wood avens. 
10. White dead nettle 
11. Cow parsley 
12. Curled dock
13. Yarrow 
14. White beam 
15. Oak 
16. Elderberry 
17. Woundwort 
18. Rowan 
19. Sloes 
20. Haw berries. 
21. Rosehips 
22. Gelder rose 
23. Oxeye daisy 
24. Yellow toadflax 
25. Brackets 
26. Old man’s beard 
27. Field maple 
28. Beech 
29. Knapweed
30. Red clover 
31. Cranes bill
32. Blackberry 30
33. Black bryony 
34. Agrimony 
35. Sow thistle 
36. Ash 
37. Ribwort plantain 
38. Robins pin cushion. 
39. Spindle