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Rose hips are the fruits of the rose flower plant. Rose hips replace the fallen flowers when the temperatures lower. Rose hips are edible and are shaped round or oval. The color of rose hips is normally bright red to orange – the darker the red the riper.

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Description Woodland strawberry (Fragaria vesca) is a small and charming plant that grows wild in Denmark and many other temperate regions around the world. Despite rarely reaching a height of more than 15-20 cm, they have an impressive ability to spread across large areas. The plants have distinctive leaves resembling three fingers, with a pale
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We all know the classic greek yogurt sauce Tzatziki with grated cucumber and garlic. This recipe replaces the garlic with wild garlic leaves and makes it a wild garlic tzatziki instead. Wild Garlic is known to be an early spring wild edible that is one of the most popular plants to forage. Wild Garlic has
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Condiments & Preserves
Wild rose sugar has a beautiful pink color, and it both smells and tastes wonderfully of roses and summer. Foraging for wild roses and making them into sweet aromatic sugar is an amazing summer activity. When mixing sugar with the stunning wild rose petals, it becomes a glittery, pink sugar. The sugar can be used
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I have decided to give you the classic recipe of a wild garlic pesto, because it is so delicious that I make it every year. Pesto can be used in pasta, sandwiches or in mashed potatoes, and is packed with flavor.

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