New WILD order if you want it youtu.be/6iESACY1FeI?si… via YouTube

For Andy Hamilton, author of The First-Time Forager, finding his food in nature represents freedom. 🍓🥬

“When you start to engage with the natural world with foraging, then you start to love it more.”

Carlin Braun interviews Andy Hamilton. 👇🌿
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Every now and then I'm told wild food is middle class, and it really winds me up.

All foragers I know, from a variety of backgrounds just love food - we learn, we cook, we educate.

Good food needs to be universal.

Are we foragers to blame for this image problem? **cough**

Come foraging with us, good folk of Bristol. Actually, we'll be in the bookshop so you're probably more likely to find paperbacks than wild garlic. Andy Hamilton will be joining us next month 16/5 to talk about The First-Time Forager. It'll be swell!

Tix gloucesterroadbooks.com/events/#hamilt…

'Where there is a story already told, and we have to follow the narrative and we can't be kind it's awful for us ... because we don't get space and place where we get to be kind... we [humans] are really kind when we get the chance'. youtube.com/watch?app=desk…

My latest book - First Time Forager is out today. I think I'll nip out and pick some wild garlic to celebrate. I like to dehydrate a few leaves and keep them in a jar for seasoning. collins.co.uk/products/97800…

wrote a blog about foraging for Bristol Good food bristolgoodfood.org/2024/01/05/fir…

If anyone is after a unique Christmas gift for a knitter then may I suggest a yarn dyeing kit from my wife's shop. All natural stuff with coreopsis flowers to make the dye with. They are lovely #knitting
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Sneaky peak of the front cover of my er... 5th/6th book (I'm a bit like Dr who, hard to count properly). It's been a few decades in the making and includes some of my favourite plants - which is hard because all plants are my favourite!

Foraging means freedom youtu.be/ejT9Z-L6EEU?fe… via YouTube

Every year, just after the first frost this ginkgo drops off pretty much all of its leaves in one go. The resulting display of yellow beneath the tree was quite breathtaking. #bath

Is it time to stop sucking aphid poo? open.substack.com/pub/andyhamilt…

Bears aren't everywhere and why anxiety sometimes lasts for longer than it should. open.substack.com/pub/andyhamilt…

The metrolythic - Life as a domestic Human open.substack.com/pub/andyhamilt…

A few years ago I was introduced to the idea of song maps/song lines. The idea that song could be used to navigate and find food. Have you ever used song to find or remember something?

why use the term Wasteland to describe emerging habitat? Voles, foxes, birds, badgers, bats & 75 plant species all live in our back lane. Local children build dens & live a free 70's childhood. It is all due to go if developers have their way. South Bristol European Grey capital!

In order to celebrate all these bank holidays - This video goes out to the one guy, who dances through the door of every single British pub during every bank holiday - we've all seen him - sometimes we are him!

#dancelikeyourdad #wildbooze

I wanted to avoid knowing the date of the coronation. I lasted until Wednesday 3rd, with just three days to go before accidentally seeing a poster. I think I deserve an OBE for my efforts.

Made this video in celebration of my Glasgow booze walk with Mark Williams . youtube.com/watch?v=XHQN8O… - I'm in the process of making posh Buckfast... how to video to follow.