Welcome to Skovkær! This is your gateway to the world of wild food and foraging. Here, you’ll find a variety of delicious recipes made with wild ingredients, along with blog posts full of inspiration, tips, and practical advice to help you get started on your own foraging journey. At the top of the page, you’ll find links to our seasonal wild recipes. You can also dive into the blog to discover more about edible plants, foraging techniques, and creative ways to cook with nature’s pantry.

We hope Skovkær inspires you to explore the outdoors, try new ingredients, and enjoy the beauty of cooking with wild food.

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Ground Elder Season Ground elder (Aegopodium podagraria) is a perennial plant that typically emerges in spring and early summer. The young leaves are the most delicious and flavorful and should be harvested before the plant flowers. The best time to forage for the leaves is in April and May. Where to Find it Ground elder
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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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Condiments & Preserves
Wild rose salt is a beautiful, floral, and super tasty pink salt made from wild rose petals and flake salt. It is very simple to make and the salt stays good for a long time. Use wild roses from a non-polluted area and inspect each petal for insects. The Latin name of the wild rose
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Bread & Cakes
Simple, green, sweet, stinging nettle cake. This stinging nettle cake is for everyone who loves cakes and wants to try something new and delicious. The stinging nettle is despised by many, for its stinging reputation. But stinging nettles are so much more than that. Nettles can be used in countless dishes both savoury and sweet.
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