I am preparing to possibly leave Telegraph Hill and move in with friends in Brighton.
Today I was invited by Louise and Ella at Grow Wild, to lead a farewell forage around Telegraph Hill. We went out under leaden skies, to find a whole host of wild weeds still growing. We identified nettles and dead-nettles, mallow, cleavers (goosegrass), dandelion, plantain, mint and chickweed. All these were growing just behind St Catherine's church, around the edges of the new community garden. I picked mostly nettles (both stinging and 'dead' varieties) which I made into a hearty soup for my lunch. I also showed them the sloe-berries in the Lower Park, which were picked to make sloe gin.
I made certain to share a link to the Transition Lewisham Foraging Map, an open resource for all foragers in the area. Here's a link: http://goo.gl/maps/ds38T
More info about local foraging might also appear on the Grow Wild website.
Hello! I'm Darren Flint, and I'm a local food activist. That means I'm involved in growing, finding and making food to share with the community. For a long time I was living and working around Lewisham Borough in South-East London. Now I've moved to Brighton and I'm ready to begin a new chapter in my adventures with food!
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