{"id":134,"date":"2019-05-01T09:04:52","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T08:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/mountainwaysireland.com\/?page_id=134"},"modified":"2022-05-31T09:39:48","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T08:39:48","slug":"create-your-own-self-guided-hiking-holiday","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mountainwaysireland.com\/special-events\/create-your-own-self-guided-hiking-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"Foraging in the Foothills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

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Brian is also an avid home cook with a 5 star rating from the Foods Standards Agency. You can have the chance to taste from the hedgerow as well as ‘super unami’ rich treats from the pantry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whatever is seasonally available or Brian is cooking up in his wild kitchen! Wild jellies, jams, pickles, hedgerow fruit leathers, mushroom deserts, ‘funky’ fermented foods of all sorts – wild plants, seeds, seaweeds and mushrooms.
Sample simple but effective age old herbal folk remedies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please Note: The following lists of plants and Wildflowers are not all edibles and some are poisonous species.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SPRING<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 New life bursting forth everywhere on ditch, tree, field & mountain stream
\u2022 Blackthorn & Fairy Thorn Blossom
\u2022 Lesser Celendine
\u2022 Wood anemone
\u2022 Primrose, Dandelion and Violets
\u2022 Golden Whins light up the hillsides
\u2022 Succulent Wall Pennywort
\u2022 Zesty Sorrell \u2013 wood and common
\u2022 A Sea of Bluebells<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

AUTUMN<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Golden stands of Bracken Fern as nature slows
\u2022 Pasture fungi
\u2022 Blackberry, Gooseberry, Raspberry
\u2022 Mountain Ash berries
\u2022 Hazelnut
\u2022 Haws, Hips and Sloes
\u2022 Armagh Apples<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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SUMMER<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 The hedgerows, stone ditches and fields come alive with abundant growth.
\u2022 Fragrant Meadow sweet
\u2022 Fairy Thimbles Foxglove
\u2022 Tasty Blackberries
\u2022 Wild Angelica & Birds foot trefoil
\u2022 Lady\u2019s Mantle -Brian\u2019s Grannies herb
\u2022 Golden Broom & Honeyed Fuschia
\u2022 Bugle \u2013 the carpenter\u2019s friend
\u2022 Heady scent of Honeysuckle<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

WINTER<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Wildlife including mountain goats and deer often come down from the higher mountain for shelter.
\u2022 Golden stands of Bracken Fern
\u2022 Fairy Potatoes & \u2018Silverweed
\u2022 Icicled wall pennywort-natures lollypop
\u2022 Dew heavy cobweb lace on golden gorse
\u2022 Fox, badger & Wildlife tracks on frosty field<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n