Urban Forage

🌼🍾 Elderflower champagne — proper homemade bubbles, from flower to bottle.

Fresh elderflowers from the hedgerow, lemon, sugar, and champagne yeast — follow our step by step recipe.

A few weeks later you’ve got a floral, lightly sweet sparkling drink that tastes like summer bottled up 🌿✨
Foraged, fermented, and done properly.

THE RECIPE

2g sugar
20 heads of elderflower
8 lemons
zested and juiced or 2tsp citric acid
5g sachet dry champagne yeast

⚠️ Still pressure-bottle carefully — this stuff can get lively. Please don't use glass bottles.

⚠️ Up to 17%alc — please don't try this at home.

Experiment with other flowers 🌼

Follow for more wild-foraged ingredients, fermentation projects, and homemade drinks that actually work 🍾🌿

Up next:

BOTTLING - Comment "bubbly" for a link to part 2 when it lands.

WHAT YOU NEED FOR PART 2 BEFORE YOU START

FOR BOTTLING
Sanitiser
Corks and Cages (for glass)
Bottles
Whisk
Large tub
Muslin/Cloth
Sieve
Funnel
Syphon or Jug

🌿 Free food is growing right under our feet! 🌿

Wild rocket is one of my favourite urban foraging finds. With its deeply lobed leaves and spicy, peppery flavour, it can often be found growing from cracks in pavements, walls, and other disturbed ground throughout the UK.

In this reel, I'm showing you how to identify wild rocket and harvest it responsibly. A handful of fresh leaves can add a punch of flavour to salads, sandwiches, pesto, and more—all completely free.

⚠️ Always be 100% certain of your identification before eating any wild plant, and avoid harvesting from areas that may be contaminated by traffic, pesticides, or dog fouling.
Have you ever spotted wild rocket growing in your town?

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🍄 Mushroom Tip: Lilac Oysterling - Panus conchatus 💜

One of the prettiest fungi you'll find on a woodland walk, the Lilac Oysterling stands out with its beautiful lilac-purple tones and delicate oyster-shaped caps.

You'll usually find it growing in clusters on dead and decaying wood, where it plays an important role in breaking down timber and recycling nutrients back into the ecosystem.

🔍 Key features: • Lilac to violet-coloured caps • Oyster-like shape • Grows in overlapping clusters • Found on dead wood, especially during the cooler months

While it's a stunning fungus to photograph, always be 100% confident with any mushroom identification before considering consumption.

Have you spotted a Lilac Oysterling in the wild? Let me know below! 👇🍄

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Blushing pink elderflower cordial made from freshly foraged blooms 🌸✨

Light, floral, citrusy and naturally pink — this wild seasonal drink tastes like summer in a bottle. Perfect with sparkling water, cocktails, desserts, or drizzled over ice 💕

Foraged by hand and made with simple ingredients straight from the hedgerow.

Would you try pink elderflower cordial? 🌿

Golden sunshine in a bottle ☀️🌼
Foraging fresh elderflowers and turning them into a homemade cordial that tastes like summer itself. Sweet, floral, citrusy and completely free if you know where to look 👀

All you need is freshly picked elderflowers, lemons, sugar and a little patience 🍋✨

Perfect for sparkling drinks, cocktails, desserts or just sipping in the garden.

Save this recipe for elderflower season 🌿

Turning wild garlic seed pods into salty, punchy wild garlic capers 🌿✨

One of the best free foraged ingredients of spring — packed with garlicky flavour and perfect for salads, pasta, martinis, or straight from the jar 👀

All you need is wild garlic seed pods, salt, vinegar, and a little patience.

Forage responsibly, leave plenty for wildlife, and only take what you can confidently identify 🌱

Crispy, golden, and packed with savory flavor, these vegan Chicken of the Woods nuggets are a perfect plant-based twist on a classic comfort food. Made with tender, sautéed Chicken of the Woods mushrooms, a light crunch from a seasoned breadcrumb coating, and a flavorful dip on the side, they’re perfect for snacking, as a party appetizer, or a satisfying main dish.

Dive into this easy, delicious recipe today!