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- Welcome to the website of the Wild Man
of food, Fergus Drennan; forager extraordinaire!
- Forage:
- The act of looking or searching for food or provisions.
- To wander in search of food or provisions.
- To conduct a search; rummage.
(Middle
English, from Old French fourrage, from forrer,
to forage,
from feurre, fodder, of Germanic
origin.)
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12th March 2010
LOOK! Finally some new content that will be on going.............................
Magazine Articles
Gift anxieties solved!
There is a wonderful gift you can give to some one. It doesn't involve useless packaging or a heart attack induicing last minute shopping frenzy. Instead, it's both educational and great fun: a foraging course. Gift vouchers available not just for Christmas but for any occasion.
It's time to stop dressing up in silly costumes....
....... and sort out this website. So, coming (not)very soon: links that don't loop back to saved and copyright breaching material on my site i.e. live links. Apologies to Sunny Savage of wildfoodplants.com and John Kallas of wild food adventures - the only truly wild people who noticed the error - of those who give a damn. ALSO downloadable handy wild food identification cards courtesy of Judy of the Woods - they're really good! ALSO, lists of all edible native plants with recipes and other info. And, finally, regular blogs about my year living entirely on wild and foraged food (not always the same things)!
Living entirely on 100% wild and foraged food - is it possible? Could it be sustained for a whole year? Yes, probably. Here are details of my attempts to just that:
A trial run of one month on wild food
A year of wild food April 08 - March 09. The first attempt
A year of wild food July 1st 2009 - June 30th 2010. The second attempt
- NEW Harvest it!.....a festival of autumn delights.
PHOTOGRAPHS
Sunday 23 September, 2pm-5pm.
http://www.motiroti.com/learn/gallery/gallery002c.php
Questions to a Forager II. Answers to questions for Insight Magazine (Sept 07)
- What's been your biggest mistake while foraging?
- Can anyone forage?
- Why is foraging so popular right now?
- How did you get into it?
- Who couldn't you have done this without?
- Best thing you've ever foraged?
- What can you / will you never forage?
- What's the funniest myth you've ever heard about foraging?
- How do people react when you tell them what you do?
- What are you thankful for?
- What do you think about when you're in the forest?
- What is the most unusual thing you've ever seen in the forest?
- What's your tastiest bit of roadkill?
- Is it annoying having to forage in Winter?
- What should Joe Public do to start foraging?
- Eating nothing but wild food month (July 07):
Day 31 -1 + the day after - newest entry first
Day 1-31 + the day after - in consecutive order
last updated on August the 19th
Man cannot live by bread alone.......
A brief explanation of my reasons for deciding to eat nothing but wild food for the duration of July
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"I'm a vegetarian but I eat Roadkill!"; "Does a dog have Buddha-nature?" and other Chan/Zen koans.
- Questions to a Forager. Answers to questions for Plenty Magazine.
And....What does hedgehog taste like? Or, ask a silly question; get a silly answer!
- Roadkill: Germans have the last wordThis is an automatic page translation from German to English. Boy oh boy did I laugh! more>>
Hunting For Dead Tasty Meals
From foxes to pheasants, seaweed to slugs, everything's fair game for The Roadkill Chef. Guy Adams joins him scavenging for supper.more>>
- I win a PETA award!
I thought this was a joke. But no it really is true! And I am very happy to accept this award. Details will appear on the PETA website later. NB PETA stands for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals more
One From The Road
Fergus Drennan is a forager on a mission, but there's more to his craft than cooking........ more>> This will take you to the Kent on Sunday piece. In the blue left hand box highlight 'review', then click on 'click to read'. This will take you to the latest edition. Click on the arrow on the drop down bar second from the left at the top of the page. Go to the Sunday 21/01/2007 edition .Even if you don't like the article it's well worth checking out just for the page turning sound effects!! If you can remember all this info then your memory is much better than mine!
- The Ecologist. Roadkill Chef
- stupid title but...,hey....what can you do?
‘OK then,’ I say to Fergus, with a challenge in my voice, ‘what about............... more>>
- Roadkill Café - the aftermath
18th Jan.(Should put most of this stuff in my blog, but having trouble using it.) ‘Aftermath’ usually implies dire consequences. In this case the term simply pays reference... more>
- Roadkill Café Dilemma
(15th Jan) Imagine this situation: Firstly, you have recently made a programme for the BBC, however, for the most part.... more>>
- Seabuckthorn Cheese cake
- I have been using this wonderful plant for a number of years now, and have found several great ways of using it. more>>
- Foraging your Christmas pud
Putting all thoughts of convenience food aside and, in a challenging seasonal celebration of the slow, fantastically inconvenient, absurd and impractical, here is my recipe for a completely foraged Christmas pudding
- Hats Off to Chris
Evans xx
I forage with Chris and friends around his home... more>>
- Foraging
and the law
- read
it and weep! more>>
-
Country
Living Magazine
Nov
06 - Fergus the forager - His
taste for the wild began early: as a boy he enjoyed nettle soups
and dandelion salads, while at University he feasted on snails.
Now Fergus Drennan is a hunter-gatherer by profession.
more>>
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Conde
Nast Traveller Magazine - Oct 06 - Finders
keepers - Fergus Drennan lives off the
land, foraging for wild food which
he takes to market and sells to restaurants. more>>
wild mushroom risotto at the George & Dragon
- Blog
- Roadkill - Lately,
quite a few people have been asking me about roadkill. So I’m
going to say a few words about it. Not that I eat it that much.
At most it constitutes 1-5% of my diet throughout the year. Also,
I would rarely if ever actively go out searching for it. more>>
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A
one-day course run by Fergus.
Now taking bookings for 2007!!!
Wild
plants are nutritionally rich - uniquely so.
Unlike cultivated vegetables, salad leaves and herbs for which - even if grown
organically, many of the essential nutrients - in the form of manure or chemical
fertilizer - have to be transported to the artificially set aside growing site,
a wild plant germinates and flourishes where it is because the perfect balance
of water, sunshine and nutrients come together in that unique location.
more>>
-
Rustling
up the roadkill
www.telegraph.co.uk
Fergus Drennan harvesting seaweed in Kent
Wild food is tasty and hip.
Professional forager
Paul Kingsnorth heads for the woods -
'Before
we
do
anything
else," says Fergus Drennan, "guess
what this is made of." He
reaches
into
a
wicker
basket
and
pulls
out
what
looks
like
a
fruit
tart.
I
bite
into
it.
"Rhubarb?" I say, suspecting correctly that this would
be far too obvious.
more>>
- Ask
Mario - www.askmario.co.uk
TAKE A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE
- Fergus Drennan
makes a living as a forager but it is also
a way of life. For him, foraging for wild
food is about connecting and finding balance, living a life fully
engaged with, and responsive to, the natural world. He
explains his philosophy.
more>>
- Seasonal
Recipe: Nettle and Wild Garlic Soup
(serves
10 ish)
Gift
anxieties solved!
There is a wonderful gift you
can give to some one. It doesn't involve useless packaging or
a heart attack induicing last minute shopping frenzy. Instead,
it's both educational and great fun: a foraging course. Gift
vouchers available not just for Christmas but for any occasion.
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