Wild Food Foraging in Yorkshire What wild food can I eat in Yorkshire? If you live in or are visiting Yorkshire and are wondering what edible wild plants there are to eat here, read on... Have you ever walked past the weeds on the city streets, or the hedgerows by the River and wondered... "ho...

Can You Eat Hogweed? Can I Eat Hogweed? Is common hogweed edible? How do you eat hogweed? If you have ever wondered about any of these questions, watch this video but firstly;  why not sign up to my FREE ebook to increase your self sufficiency and foraging skills HERE To find out how to eat c...

If you're looking to develop practical skills that contribute to self-sufficiency, here are five areas worth considering: Get FREE pages from my book 'How To Be More Self-Reliant, Naturally' HERE Gardening and food production: Learning how to grow your own food, whether in a bac...

Because in 2021 we are too posh for walkers ready salted, and because it is over a £1 for a packet of healthy 'green' crisps (think Kale) from the shops, I decided to experiment using a range of free, edible wild leaves, smothered with oil and a hint of salt.  Paying a lot for the modern idea of...

You cannot get more living off-grid than a battered old caravan in a five-acre field with no heating, no toilet and no running hot water in a remote dale in the North York Moors, but that was how a single mum of three young children chose to live her life 15 years ago. By Chris Berry Saturd...

Wild Food Foraging in York Three Easy to Identify and Prepare Weeds for you to Forage in York. Have you ever walked past the weeds on the city streets, or the hedgerows by the River Ouse and wondered... "how much of it can you actually eat?" The surprising fact is;  on our everyday travels thr...

What is Self-Reliance? The Oxford Dictionary says it is: “Reliance on one’s own powers and resources rather than those of others”. This can be in the realms of housing, health care, mental health, parenting, fitness plus knowledge and skill development (education).  ‘Others’ could mean; yo...

  How To Plan A Hen Party For Nature Lovers So, you’ve been tasked with organising a hen do?  As if that’s not hard enough, I’ve watched thousands of groups over ten years of running hen party activities and can understand its akin to herding cats, or to stuffing an octopus into a net bag. You...

Wild Harvest School of Self-Reliance Published by Di Page on 3 Nov 2020 Facebook   Early morning solo hike. A quick 2.5 hour walk, taking in some deep breaths, and gentle hills. Nibbled on beet tops (not just for livestock), ate some sloes in the best way ev...