An edible auricularia fungus Photo: Supplied/Alison Stringer
Woodland warrior and seasoned forager Johanna Knox has been taking some value added walks around her neighbourhood in the lockdown.
Her daily exercise with benefits means finding an array of wild, fresh and free ingredients to embellish even the most mundane store cupboard.
Her book A Forager’s Treasury introduced more people to the pleasures of finding and using wild plants - and she keeps up the good work on her blog too.
Now she’s seeing a resurgence in interest in foraging through the lockdown both here and overseas.
She’ll tell us what food you might see on a walk at the moment, and what you can do with all the things you find: from dandelion to pine, from chickweed to fennel (used in her homemade chai tea).
Spoiler alert: she hasn’t found an easy and reliable source for foraged flour yet though!
