Wild Picnic

A gallery of edible and useful wild plants, in Wellington and the Wairarapa (NZ)

Monday, May 13, 2013

New foraging book and blog

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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...
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Tuesday, July 24, 2012

RIP Margaret Mahy, Forager

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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...
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Sunday, January 8, 2012

The long reach of the Food Bill (no conspiracy theories here, just facts)

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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...
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Saturday, October 22, 2011

Chewing over the Food Bill

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Interrupting normal transmission to discuss important legal and political stuff ... A proposed overhaul to NZ's Food Act (the Food Bil...
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Saturday, September 17, 2011

Pink Pepper (Schinus molle)

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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....
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Friday, June 10, 2011

Fuschias

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Earlier this year, writer Sharon Astyk blogged about 'edible landscaping' - or 'stealth gardening' - planting ornamentals ...
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Friday, April 8, 2011

Purslane (Portulaca oleracea)

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We've just moved from Wellington to the lovely little Wairarapa town of Featherston - and I do believe it may be the Purslane Capita...
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Friday, January 28, 2011

Harakeke/NZ Flax (Phormium tenax)

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(Reposted from January 2009, with a few changes and additions) Harakeke is one of those all round super-useful plants, used by Maori in ...
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Friday, December 10, 2010

Elderberry (Sambucus nigra)

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(Reposted from November 2008   with new bits.) Elderberry flowers are still blooming in many places, so get them while ...
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Saturday, October 23, 2010

Jasminum polyanthum

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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...
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Friday, August 20, 2010

Ti kouka and relatives /cabbage trees (Cordyline species)

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Trees in the Cordyline genus grow all round the Pacific, and are amazingly useful. New Zealand, Samoa, Tonga, Hawai'i ... in these place...
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Friday, July 16, 2010

Pelargonium species

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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...
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Friday, June 18, 2010

Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare)

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Fennel was introduced to New Zealand by settlers, probably as both a culinary and medicinal herb. Among the first to introduce it may have...
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Friday, May 7, 2010

Pine (Pinus species)

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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...
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Friday, April 2, 2010

Coprosma species

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