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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A basket full of black trumpet mushrooms and funnel chanterelles. Foraging for edible wild mushrooms in nature is pure joy! You come home after a successful mushroom hunt with a basket full of delicious, fresh mushrooms. That means you can prepare a wonderful home cooked mushroom meal. Sometimes you are lucky enough to find more
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Condiments & Preserves
It's finally time to make blackberry jam! Late summer and early autumn mark the ripening of the delicious blackberries that you can find in the forest edges, hedgerows and thickets. Blackberries are not only packed with vitamins, they are also incredibly tasty. Their large size makes it easy to pick a good portion in a
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Sauces

This wild garlic barbecue marinade consists of wild garlic leaves, olive oil, herbs, chili, lemon juice and salt and pepper. It is perfect as a marinade for meat, chicken, vegetables, or fish either cooked in the oven or grilled on the barbecue.

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