Wild Food People

John Miller is a nature writer, outdoorsman and a board member of both the Atlantic Salmon Trust and Curlew Action. We sat down with John in his beautiful reclaimed wood garden room / shed / office / man cave to talk about his book 'What's in a Year', living seasonally, and the broader topics of understanding nature, conservation and the Natural History GCSE. Links -  John Miller's website - Jon M...

We visited Steve at Cheshire Wild Venison to talk about venison as a meat, deer management, and how he started in this business in the first place. After showing us around his premises we sat down with Steve in his office and with the occasional accompanying hum of his chiller unit and chewed the fat about current practices surrounding wild meat and getting it into the food chain as well as some o...

Phil Lewis is a hedgelayer, market gardener, beekeeper, scyther and much more, who straddles the border of England and North Wales. As darkness fell in the woods, we sat around a campfire with mugs of tea and good spirits as we discussed the importance of hedges and hedgelaying for the health of trees and support of local ecosystems and wild food networks. Phil is also a beekeeper, or rather - he...

At the end of September we met up with Jonathan McGowan and Tembo to try our luck at Truffle hunting in North Wales. Jonathan is in the truffle hunting business and last year he found the first known wild truffle in North Wales for over 70 years. We spent several hours with Jonathan, following Tembo around a couple of woodlands local to us which have the right sort of habitat for truffles and talk...

We ventured over to the coast of North Wales to meet up with Gethin Jones, a Welshman who has been harvesting wild food from the coast since he was 4 years old. From digging up bait with his uncle, to selling pigeons to the local butcher and perfecting his flying duck impersonations, Gethin has led a life immersed in wild caught protein and we only manage to scratch the surface in this episode. We...

This episode was recorded at the end of August with autumn just around the corner; Richard and Amy discuss the species highlights to look out for over the next few months. Wild fruits start appearing in summer with strawberries and raspberries being the first obvious candidates, Bilberries follow soon after and then as we edge to the end of summer and into autumn the different fruits available sta...

We welcomed Abi (aka Whitetail Abigail), creator and host of The Grit podcast, to our little corner of North Wales. We sourced some wild food, cooked over a fire and recorded this podcast episode. Abi is passionate about hunting and having more control over where her food has come from - and even more passionate about promoting women in wild food and fieldsports, giving a voice to what she sees as...

We recorded this episode live at the 2024 Game Fair at Blenheim Palace, where Richard Prideaux wandered around holding a sign on a stick and invited the public, wild food celebrities and official representatives to be our guest for a few minutes. Over two days talked with dozens of people about wild food, the relevance of the Game Fair to British conservation and land management - and to ask them...

This episode sees the brief return of Wild Food News, brought to you by the 'silly season' of UK press. We talk about the study that suggests that deer carcasses should be left behind on the hills to keep nutrients in the soil, and why you can no longer trap the invasive Signal crayfish for food. https://wildfoodpeople.co.uk Recent research conducted by the University of Edinburgh and Yale Univers...

Next weekend (26th -28th July 2024) will see The Game Fair return to Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire. Dubbed 'Glastonbury for the green welly brigade' it is a festival of the British countryside and has been running since 1958. If you want to know more about wild food and increase your access to it then you need to understand the factors that affect the habitat it lives in - conservation, farming,...

A short podcast episode about how to not poison yourself through foraging - the link to the video version of this podcast is available below. Being wary of foraging is fairly sensible as there is a real risk of poisoning yourself or others if you don't know what you are eating. Identification guides are brilliant to help you learn how to read the packaging of plants, trees and mushrooms and is the...

Huw Foulkes is a 4th generation dairy farmer in the Vale of Clwyd in North Wales. Since bringing the farm back into their own management, he has been developing the family's acres into a regenerative, organic, nature friendly, calf-at-foot dairy farm for the past 4 years. We are well aware of Huw and his fantastic land stewardship, as he lives only a few miles away and is a source of both milk and...

In this episode: You can't eat Woodpeckers  in the UK; The motives behind a recent Morel foraging warning issued by Montana State ; Australian's told to steer clear of wild mushrooms ; Wild Garlic patch contaminated with sewage ; Jeremy Clarkson’s unique approach to producing saleable  products from wild sourced ingredients; and the real-life logistics of selling wild food. Three things to do this...

In this episode: The recent changes to deer hunting seasons in Scotland and implications of Deer Management Nature Restoration Orders on the mental wellbeing of land managers and professional stalkers; The rising popularity of wild ingredients on social media and in urban places ; and how one man has been attacked for sustainable foraging . Three things to do this week: Gather in some Wild Garlic...