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New course dates. Plants and seaweeds.
Many of you have asked.
Dec 16, 2025 • Robin Harford
The Arrowhead Plant You’ve Never Heard Of (But Should Be Eating)
Once upon a time I watched something peculiar at the garden centre.
Nov 24, 2025 • Robin Harford
Plants as relatives, not resources
The moment you see a plant as a resource, you’ve already lost something essential.
Nov 23, 2025 • Robin Harford
The earth is your relative (whether you know it or not)
Here’s something most foragers won’t tell you.
Nov 21, 2025 • Robin Harford
Judas Tree
The Judas Tree (Cercis siliquastrum), naturalised in Britain since at least the sixteenth century, carries with it one of the more unfortunate naming…
Nov 8, 2025 • Robin Harford
Fire cider
There’s something wonderfully unruly about fire cider.
Nov 1, 2025 • Robin Harford
Seeing what grows
Today, I want you to go outside and find a small patch of ground somewhere where your local plants grow.
Oct 19, 2025 • Robin Harford
Douglas fir
I walk through dense oak woods, prolific with acorns.
Oct 9, 2025 • Robin Harford
The Heretical Forager
The Heretical Forager
Challenges everything you think you know about wild food. No nature-as-resource nonsense. No extractive Instagram foraging fantasies. Just honest, direct, counterintuitive writing rooted in kinship with plants and deep ecological relationships.

The Heretical Forager

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