With Mother’s Day approaching, my sister and I found ourselves planning how best to treat our wonderful mum. Flowers, chocolates, a lot of food related suggestions cropped up, and then we began to reminisce about being little, and how Donna (@hortensiabloom on instagram) would teach us from such a young age about plants, flowers, trees and all sorts of horticulture (edible and not!). We would go on adventures armed with watercolours and soup in a flask to find new flowers to

Whilst bracing ourselves for the Beast from the East’s arrival we’ve found ourselves reaching for the hot chocolates and steaming hot bowls of porridge. As the Rude Health Porridge Champions for 2 years running, we thought it would be the perfect time to share our winning recipe, featuring parnsnips and sea buckthorn, it is the perfect dish for any time of the day! INGREDIENTS ½ Parsnip, grated 300g Rude Health 5 Grain 5 Seed Porridge 650ml Parsnip Milk (milk and cream inf

You will be truly amazed at the vast amount of wild food available in South East London, whether that be the more common, apples, blackberries and rose hips or for the keener eyes, figs, sorrel and damsons – keep your eyes peeled but do remember to keep a reference point to hand, there are plenty websites to help with identification, or we particularly like the River Cottage handbooks. We are excited about raising the profile of game, foraged and seasonal foods by bringing it