Wild Picnic

I'm retiring 'Wild Picnic' to focus on my new blog A Forager's Treasury , which has a book to go with it - hurrah! I...

As tears and tributes flow for children's author Margaret Mahy, I thought it would be nice in this little corner of the blogosphere to...

I promise I will get back to blogging about wild food soon. I've made some new-to-me discoveries and am keen to share! But, before I...

Interrupting normal transmission to discuss important legal and political stuff ... A proposed overhaul to NZ's Food Act (the Food Bil...

C olin Pearce of Lower Hutt has found he has this beauty - a pink pepper tree - growing in his garden. His neighbour is similarly blessed....

Earlier this year, writer Sharon Astyk blogged about 'edible landscaping' - or 'stealth gardening' - planting ornamentals ...

We've just moved from Wellington to the lovely little Wairarapa town of Featherston - and I do believe it may be the Purslane Capita...

(Reposted from January 2009, with a few changes and additions) Harakeke is one of those all round super-useful plants, used by Maori in ...

(Reposted from November 2008   with new bits.) Elderberry flowers are still blooming in many places, so get them while ...

Researching this plant was a fascinating study in the issues around pest plants here. I love this plant, but many hate it, and I couldn...

Trees in the Cordyline genus grow all round the Pacific, and are amazingly useful. New Zealand, Samoa, Tonga, Hawai'i ... in these place...

I grew up calling these useful and delicious things Geraniums and it's hard to get out of the habit. But the name 'Geranium' sho...

Fennel was introduced to New Zealand by settlers, probably as both a culinary and medicinal herb. Among the first to introduce it may have...

In New Zealand not much used to thinking of pine as a herb, but in parts of the Northern hemisphere it has a long tradition of use in cui...

According to the Bushman's Friend , a great resource, Coprosma fruits are a ' succulent globose drupe'. How could your mouth no...