A vibrant, flavour-packed pesto made with fresh wild garlic, toasted walnuts and rich miso for an irresistible savoury depth. Perfect stirred through pasta, spread onto sourdough, or spooned over roasted vegetables, this simple recipe celebrates one of spring’s most loved wild ingredients and is a delicious way to preserve the wild garlic season. 🌿
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Bex’s Wild Bhajis
Crisp on the outside and packed with wild flavours within, Bex’s Wild Bhajis combine nettle, wild garlic, jack-by-the-hedge and water mint to create a delicious seasonal twist on a classic favourite. Easy to make and perfect for sharing, they’re a wonderful way to bring some of the UK’s most abundant wild plants into your kitchen and onto your plate. 🌿✨
Bex’s Honey & Wildflower Sourdough Cake
A delicious way to use up sourdough starter, this Honey & Wildflower Sourdough Cake is lightly sweetened with honey and infused with seasonal blossoms. Soft, fragrant and full of character, it’s a simple recipe that celebrates the flavours of the wild while creating a beautifully moist cake perfect for sharing. 🌸🍯🍰
Bex’s Dandelion Shorties (GF)
These buttery dandelion shortbread biscuits are one of Bex’s favourite ways to celebrate spring. Delicately infused with dandelion petals, they have a subtle floral flavour and beautiful golden colour that captures the season in every bite.
Simple to make and perfect alongside a cup of tea, this recipe is a lovely introduction to baking with wild ingredients and a reminder that some of the most overlooked plants can create something truly special in the kitchen. Click through for the full recipe and bring a little wild sweetness to your day. 🌼🍪
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Sweet Violet – A Balm for the Heart
The Light is Returning Hello wild ones! March is finally here. Do you feel it? I know we can all look at our calendars but do you feel it? Do you see the green that has suddenly begun to unroll her luscious, aromatic carpets that feel as though they have just arrived out of nowhere. It feels…
How to Make My Vegan Nettle & Lemon Cake
This is one of my favourite recipes to make. A real celebration of our native lands! It is bright green and full of the most wonderful array of minerals, vitamins, anti-oxidants and essential fatty acids! I don’t add a lot of sugar, as I prefer to keep inflammation low in my body. Nettle has a…
The Bare Necessity of Space
Artwork by Tarn Ellis Are you feeling you need more space in your life, right now, too? Are you struggling to fit everything in and it just feels never ending? Like we take one step forward and then suddenly 10 new steps turn up? I’m feeling it, too, lately. The pressure is on, everywhere! And it…
Building Resilience by Connecting with your Wild
Things are starting to get incredibly difficult for many, right now. There is a lot going on in society that feels scary and uncertain. And many of us are going to be left feeling anxious about what it all means. In times like this, we start making decisions to put our own needs on the…
The Women who Hold up the World: Free of Charge!
Artwork by Martje Van Dokkum There is a deeply hidden problem that runs rife in our society, that goes largely unnoticed, unspoken, and unnamed. Yet, its existence prevails. And it is the problem of the free work of women. Free work carried out in so many different shapes and sizes, that keep us in our…