Never Mind the Burdocks

Name: Never Mind the Burdocks
Address: Musbury, EX13 8TB, GB
Telephone: 07835187979

Foraging in the British Isles

As a professional and sustainable forager, I’m here to introduce you to the world of edibles and incredible experiences that await you on your journey. Explore my foraging page to find out what delights are on your doorstep, recipes and where to find me!

In the rush of daily life, the art of slowing down can feel like a luxury, but it’s a profound necessity. This morning, I stepped out into the crisp midwinter air, letting each breath and step draw me closer to the beauty surrounding me. Winter fungi clung to mossy branches such as velvet shank, turkey tail and jelly ear, winter flowers such as narcissus, primroses and sweet violets glowed amidst the rich green in the low sun, and the earthy scent of damp leaves reminded me of the quiet cycles of nature. As I wandered, I paused to forage—small treasures like wild garlic shoots, a handful of sweet violet flowers and velvet shank, each holding stories of the season. In slowing down, I not only saw but truly felt the winter world come alive.
I hope you enjoy accompanying me on my winter walk ❄️
#winter #foraging #foraginguk #forager #wildfood #fungi #winterwalk #walks #cornwall #getoutside #lovenature #slowliving #nature #winterflowers #flowers

Thank you @edenprojectcornwall for an incredible light display! It was magical 🤩 and I even ventured to the top of the rainforest biome gantry to get the best view. My favourites were the pulsating jellyfish lights and the rainbow cords in the RFB.
#cornwall #lightshow #winter #lightmagic #december #biome #edenproject #visit #plants #visitorattraction

Happy Christmas for tomorrow and here’s to 2025!
See you in the New Year!! Xxx 🌱❄️🎄
#festive #newyear #forage #foraging #wildfood #2025 #winter #season #festivities #christmas #plants #nature #outdoors #cornwall

Stuck for a stocking filler, for a nature lover?
This advent calendar is the perfect gift! 24 hand-drawn cards with 24 winter recipes with foraged ingredients ticks the box!
Recipes to create that cozy winter feeling, recipes to make as gifts and recipes to inspire 🌱❄️
To purchase one go to https://www.nevermindtheburdocks.co.uk/category/all-products
#cornwall #foraging #forager #wildfood #plants #forage #getoutside #gift #present #stockingfillers #plantlover #advent #recipe #recipecards #homemade

Forager’s Advent Recipe Cards! I’m so pleased with how these turned out ☺️🌱
Order yours now or send one in the post to a loved one. £16 plus postage, limited stock.
Thank you so much to everyone who’s ordered one!

https://www.nevermindtheburdocks.co.uk/category/all-products
#foraging #cornwall #wildfood #forager #plants #winter #christmas #christmasgifts #giftideas #naturelovers #presents #stockingfillers #recipe #recipecards #advent #adventcalendar #nevermindtheburdocks

They’re finally here!!! My Forager’s Adventure Recipe Cards are arriving today and are now available through my website www.nevermindtheburdocks.co.uk/category/all-products (copy link) and with postage to suit, whether you want them asap for the beginning of December or as a Christmas gift for a loved one!
In the packs are 24xA6 recipe cards plus ribbon and pegs to hang them up. I hope you enjoy them and they put you in that ‘hygge’ frame of mind ready for Christmas! #forage #forager #foraging #forageuk #loveplants #nature #uk #cornwall #wildfood #wildfoodlove #eatyourgreens #christmas #winter #season #recipe #recipes #recipecards #advent #adventcalendar #unique #uniquegifts #stockingfillers

Are you looking for a nature-lover’s gift? 🌱
I’m excited to share these with you - An advent calendar with a twist! Hand-drawn advent cards with an edible winter species on the front and a delicious winter recipe on the back! With warming recipes, edible gifts and side dishes to prepare for a seasonal feast, these aren’t just for Christmas!
If you like the look of them and are interested in purchasing, let me know! Just waiting on last minute tweaks, and as soon as they’re available, I’ll let you know.
A few more details, these cards are A6, and will come in a box with pegs to hang them, like bunting. They will retail for about £15 not including p&p.
#foraging #forage #forager #uk #cornwall #recipes #winterrecipes #winter #recipecards #wildfood #handdrawn #plants #getoutside #stayinside #christmas #advent #homecooking #gift #giftideas #nevermindtheburdocks

What a fun-filled trip to the Big Smoke! We stayed with my big bro @timmydidge , went to museums, the theatre to see Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the imax, went trick or treating, Covent Garden and chatted to lots of super friendly people! Can’t wait to go again! #london #theatre #halfterm #explore #city #bigcity #adventure #miniholiday #holiday #uk

Very exciting, my books are now in stock in Waterstones, Truro! Pop in and grab a copy! 🌱💚✏️
#waterstones #bookshop #truro #cornwall #foraging #forager #foragedfood #author #books #bookstagram #wildfood #plants #lovenature #nature #autumn #diy #explore #foryou #instagram #instabook #instalike #mylife #sustainable #recipe #plantidentification

Forage and Feast @sprouthealthfoods this Sunday!
Taking in gorgeous views around Newquay whilst working out a route 💚
If you fancy it, click on the link in Sprout’s bio xx #forage #feast #forageandfeast #autumn #foraging #coast #newquay #cornwall #wildfood #hedgerow #seaview

Photobombed by Billy whilst out picking hedgehog mushrooms for tomorrow’s supper club, @newquay_orchard with the awesome @heartandsoulorchard team! Looking forward to serving up a storm of flavours! #foraging #dogsofinstagram #terrier #jackrussell #fungi #mushrooms #forager #hedgehogmushroom #hydnumrepandum #autumn #supperclub #newquay #newquayorchard

Busy week this week, so out picking in preparation for it! Truro Food Festival on Wednesday and Saturday, Heligan foraging walk on Thursday and North Cornwall Book Festival on Sunday! Dodging the showers, baking foraged food and prepping for talks… love autumn! #foraging @heligangardens #northcornwallbookfestival #trurofoodfestival #truro @ncornbookfest #forager #autumn #cornwall #wildfood

Wahhh summer has arrived!!! Only a few months late but it’s here at last 🧡
Making the most of it, I had a half hour to spare so scooted over to the North coast for spectacular views, field mushrooms (Agaricus campestris) and chamomile (Chanaemelum nobile)! I have not seen chamomile in the wild for, well perhaps never, only cultivated or garden escapes, so I was very excited to spot this! I will dry it and either use for tea or for flavouring a dessert.
Enjoy the sun! ☀️
#summer #autumn #foraging #forager #fieldmushrooms #agaricus #chamomile #wildfood #cornwall #cornishcoast #coast #ediblemushrooms #fungi #fungus #getoutside #plants #flowers

Leycesteria formosa, known as pheasant berry or Himalayan honeysuckle is a deciduous shrub with a tendency to pop up anywhere! Bees love the sweetly scented flowers and birds love the ripe berries… and so do I!
When they are black and squishy, they taste like burnt sugar. I made a simple sauce by adding them to a saucepan with a splash of water and some sugar, and heated gently. Drizzled and swirled into yoghurt works well, add it to ice creams, dollop on baked feta or halloumi… have a go and let me know what you make with it!
#leycesteria #leycesteriaformosa #pheasantberry #himalayanhoneysuckle #ediblefruit #berries #wildberries #autumn #foraging #forager #foraged #gardenescape #plants #cornwall #wildfood #getoutside #wildfoodlove

Just arrived @bbccornwall to have a chat about foraging! #blackberry #blackberries #autumn #foraging #forager #cornwall #radio #recipes

🍡Blackberry ice cream mochi🍡
All homemade, all delicious!
Mochi is easier to make than you may think! All you need is glutinous rice flour, caster sugar and water to make the dough and gently cooking it in a saucepan. Sprinkle more flour on a clean surface and roll into discs before wrapping around little spheres of your favourite ice cream!
Blackberry ice cream is one of my favourites. I normally make a custard based one but for a change I used Greek yoghurt and mascarpone which worked really well - blackberries are the best no matter how you have them!
For the mochi dough recipe, head to my website www.nevermindtheburdocks.co.uk
#blackberry #blackberries #autumn #mochi #dessert #pudding #foraging #forage #forager #wildfood #wildfoodlove #cornwall #hedgerow #recipe #sweet #japanese #japan

Ready for the start of school #school #kidsgobacktoschool #backtoschool #parenting

Grilled sunflower flower head!
When sunflower heads go over, then rub off the central flowers, drizzle with sunflower oil and sea salt then grill until turning golden.
Serve sliced and drizzled with a garlic and lime vinaigrette.
#sunflower #sunflowerhead #helianthus #edibleflowers #summer #foraging #forageuk #forager #wildfood #growyourownfood #flowers #flowerstagram #edibleflowers #eatseasonally

F I G LEAF SYRUP ☘️

I love my fig tree and have harvested the fruits for years from it, using a fishing net to pick the ones high up. We are hoping to move house soon and I won’t be able to take the tree with me so I wanted to capture the flavour and what better way than to make fig leaf syrup!
It’s the easiest recipe! All you need is a good amount of leaves, dry them in the oven until crisp but not brown, then use 3 cups of sugar and 3 cups of water and add the dried leaves, simmering and leaving to infuse. Sieve out the bits and bottle.
It’s delicious and has a smoky coconut flavour. Here I’m drizzling it over French toast with fresh figs, thyme and mascarpone, and I’ve also added some to gin to make a fig leaf liqueur.

I wonder how long it will last!
#fig #figleaf #ficuscarica #figtree #syrup #desserts #breakfast #homemade #foraging #forager #forage #wildfoodlove #wildfood #bottled #garden #capturedflavour #flavour #delicious #makeyourown #recipe #cornwall

Anyone good at foot massages?? @p__ayoung__ and I had a fantastic 6 mile walk around Feock and Devoran today which included an impromptu visit to an auction and bought a boat!
Wonderful views, ripe wild strawberries and a spot of blackberry picking, stag beetles, fields of chicory, picking water pepper and pineapple weed… now it’s time to learn how to sail! 😂 Thank you @iwalkcornwall for another great walk 🌱💚
#summer #summerholidays #cornwall #iwalkcornwall #walk #foraging #forager #wildfood #boat #estuary #swisbest #getoutside #walking #wildlife #edibleplants #plants #loveplants

A favourite walk of ours (with a picnic😋) on the north coast, with views over Holywell, round to Polyjoke and back… perfect! So much flora and fauna, such as burnet moths, pyramid orchids, agrimony, salad burnet, restharrow, rock samphire and a couple of seals basking on the beach! Polyjoke is a corruption of jackdaw bay. Didn’t see any jackdaws but did hear and see skylarks 🧡
Love these wild protected spaces, here’s to keeping them this way x
#wild #wildcornwall #wildflowers #protectedspecies #picnic #walks #northcoast #newquay #holywell #polyjoke

Linden tea 🍃
Linden or lime trees are Tilia species - lush cordate (heart shaped) leaves which are edible when young, producing sweetly scented flowers in June/July, with a Parma violet and vanilla fragrance.
The tea is delicious, with many benefits such as aiding digestion, reducing anxiety, reducing inflammation and lowering blood pressure.
Once the flowers have gone over, why not try making linden chocolate? Pick the unripe green seed pods, roast in the oven until brown then grind into a flour and sift out any stalk pieces, etc. mix with butter or oil and sugar to sweeten, and try in recipes for a rich mocha flavour!
One of my favourite trees!
NB. Avoid drinking if you suffer from pollen allergies, have heart disease, pregnant and on diuretics.
#linden #tilia #lindentea #foraging #trees #parks #edibleleaves #forager #herbaltea #limetree #edible #wildfood #tea #pickyourown

Happy birthday to me! I had a fabulous birthday breakfast with a sea view with my sister @coastandcountrycrafts then lunch with Mum at @tremenheeresculpturegardens 🥰
#birthday #breakfast #coast #cornwall #lunch #plants #hedgerow #prussiacove #treats #alfresco #family

The carder bees are back! They love collecting the fluff from the Lychnis coronaria #carderbee #wonderfulwildlife #insects #bees #lychnis #lychniscoronaria #gardenlife #ukwildlife

Billy is partial to a bit of goosegrass! Also known as cleavers, sticky willy, sticky weed, love-a-man and many more, this is Galium aparine which is in the bedstraw family.
Cleavers is rich in vitamins, fatty acids, flavonoids and tannins - great for flushing out your system as a spring tonic (for humans too!).
#cleavers #dogsofinstagram #jackrussell #terrier #hedgerow #foraging #wildfood #plants #remedy #galiumaparine #bedstraw

Isopod Girl made a great find - a sea slater! #seaslater #isopod #isopods #coast #coastalliving #invertebrates #sea #beach #coastal #wildlife #cornwall

Wild rose mochi! 🌹
I love experimenting with new recipes and these turned out well! A combination of rice flour, coconut milk, wild rose syrup and a few other ingredients, you combine and bake for an hour before dusting well with rose petal sugar, icing sugar and rice flour.
Soft, squishy and delicately flavoured, well worth a try!
#ramanasrose #rosa #rosarugosa #wildrose #mochi #sweets #japanesesweets #foraging #forager #cooking #cornwall #kitchen #testkitchen #beachrose

Forest bathing in Dragon Wood and Douglas fir cookies!

What better way to enjoy a wood than lying in it and breathing it in, playing in it and building dens (no we didn’t make this one but we were very impressed by it!) and of course eating it!
At this time of year, many conifers have soft new needles that can be incorporated into recipes but even when they get tougher, they can still impart their flavour by infusing into syrups and creams.

Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) is one of my favourite flavours, with a delicious grapefruit and pine flavour and hints of blackberry. Other tasty conifers include Norway spruce and Sitka spruce and make great teas and jams.

#conifers #woodland #woods #douglasfir #pseudotsugamenziesii #spring #forestbathing #pinene #foraging #cornwall #uk #forager #denbuilding #play #forage #wildfood #explorenature #homemade #biscuits #cookies

Yesterday I had the most inspiring day attending a talk and walk about John Stackhouse and his experimental studies on seaweeds, including a peek at his work which he documented in the ‘Nereus Britannica’, held by the Linnaean Society. As a self-proclaimed seaweed nerd, delving into Stackhouse’s work and visiting Acton Castle which he had built for his wife Susanna Acton was awesome! Top experts were amongst us - Francis Bunker and Juliet Brodie, and the talk was lead by Kerry from @theseaweedinstitute which I wish had continued for longer! What a wonderful day, plus I got to do my favourite walk from Stackhouse Cove to Perranuthnoe, spot an early orchid and go back to Mum’s house for a cuppa!
Thank you so much to everyone involved!
@linneansociety #seaweed #cornwall #algae #macroalgae #johnstackhouse #stackhousecove #actoncastle #swisbest #southwest #beachlife #coast #coastpath #rockpool #forager #sea

Bring back the weekend sunshine! Beautiful walk around Truro back lanes, with fords, elderflower, meadowsweet, wild garlic AND dryad’s saddle nestling in a tree ☺️
#spring #springwalks #walk #foraging #forager #wildfood #truro #cornwall #green #hedgerow #countryside #loveoutdoors #getoutside #sunshine

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