Tag: Wild Wine

  • Hedgerow Wine Recipe

    Hedgerow Wine Recipe

    Hedgerow Wine Recipe: Makes 1 demijohn = 6 x 750ml bottles Ingredients: 1.5kg mixed hedgerow fruit – blackberries, sloes, haws 1.25kg sugar 4.5L boiling water 4 teabags (black tea) *1 tsp pectolase *1 tsp citric acid *1 tsp yeast nutrient *1 tsp wine yeast *1 camden tablet (sulphite – optional)  Other equipment: *Steriliser (e.g. Brew…

  • Wild Wine Presentation at Charleston Trust

    Wild Wine Presentation at Charleston Trust

    Friday 15th July. 2.15pm For the Festival of the Garden at Charleston Trust, the Resilient Life team discussed the benefits of nature’s living larder and outlined creative ways to balance our lives in harmony with the seasons. We gave a demonstration on Wild Wine fermenting, from start to finish, and how to use foraged ingredients…

  • Free Greens

    Free Greens

    My Dear friend Vicky, Thank you so much for your lovely letter, yes it feels like an age since we were in the woods camping and preparing food from our allotments. I love the way we combined delicious recipes and ingredients without any pre-discussion…but I think that’s what happens when you use seasonal food as…

  • The Fig Leaf

    The Fig Leaf

    July 28th 2022  My Dear Tan, What a weekend we had in the woods…cooking feasts over an open fire, spotting forage for harvesting in the autumn – nuts and berries which the squirrels will undoubtedly get to first. It’s a good year for hazelnuts but you have to tune your ‘nut eye’ in as they…