Rachel - your curiosity for life is such an inspiration - I think wild swimming goes so well with foraging for edibles and kindling then cooking up a tasty post swim snack on the Box bush stove - the simple otherworldly things of life hey! I must say some wilted wild garlic in the Spring takes a bacon sandwich into another league x
Hi Rachel, you look so well and lovely to see Cookie too. I am catching up on your videos this evening and this one is great. What an inspirational woman you are. Thank you 😊
It looks like you had a lot of fun Rachel! The smaller crab apples you found make excellent jelly. I usually make a sweet jelly to have on toast, but if you added chillies it would be marvellous with cold cuts or stirred into a casserole to pep it up a little.
you can make a salve out of plantain - take leaves and seeds, crush them up and steep them in oil (sunflower or olive) for a couple of months, strain and mix with some melted beeswax, pour into a container and leave it to set. then you can rub in onto stings/bites when you need it!
I was so happy to see your video ping up in my notifications yesterday! I look forward to Tuesdays to see what you’ve been up to! I’d love to see you make something out of acorn flour!! I’ve not done much foraging before but I have used wild garlic in soup! It was delicious! It has a lovely delicate and subtle flavour! At the end it was lovely to see you swim with Cookie! Does she enjoy swimming now? We have friends with a Spaniel and she absolutely loves swimming! 🐶🐶
I'll see what I can do on the acorn flour front. It seems there's some drying etc that needs to happen in the oven, so long as all of the acorns aren't soggy!
Great video Rachel, you lucked in on Samphire! We have sea beet growing everywhere in the front garden and use it in curry and salads sometimes, we pick the upper leaves as the lower ones might be dog pee flavour :O
Good on ya. This is the first year I've gotten stuck into foraging too and I made a buttload of Elderberry & Blackberry jam a couple nights ago, and some Rowan & Crab Apple jam last night. Other things to look out for that I'm eating tons of just now are Puffball & Field mushrooms, Sorrel and Himalayan honeysuckle/Pheasant berries. Rock on!
That looked fun. I posted hedgerow jelly while I thought about it! You are right about sloes. I picked early first time. However, gin tasted great! If you freeze sloes and then defrost for making gin, it breaks up the skin and saves making pin holes. Rosehip packed with vitamin C. I have made cordial with them.
Aww loved you and your dog swimming. My border collie won't entertain it. I've foraged for fruits not much else, but was fun to learn other plants that are edible. :)
Sloes, rosehips and crab apples make amazing jams/jellies 😋 but my favourite are wild blueberries or as we call them fraughans, luckily they grow on the mountains close to me and make amazing pies/tarts - best picked at end July
I'm not sure if I know where you are based to be near mountains? A sweet berry is a great find, I've never seen wild blueberries, but my friend and I spotted a wild red currant each on the guided walk and gobbled that up!
@@EverydayAthleteRach red currants are yum. You will need to find a mountain bog that is not too wet or exposed, the blueberries love to grown along the edges of the trees. Luckily I am in Delgany, Ireland so have the mountains and the sea on my doorstep
Oh contraire Rachel… this was quite educational. Barring the fact that you didn’t provide the Latin names for these edible plants (haha!🤣), I learned a lot. We don’t have sloes here at all and blackberries, although plentiful in the south, they don’t grow in the north because the winters are too cold. Even if we did have either of these, I’m pretty sure the bears would get them first. Oh, how I do love blackberries!! I would suspect that so many leaves have dried up and fallen early due to the hot dry summer conditions you’ve had in the UK this year. The same thing is happening here. I’m not sure if you’re interested but… we have a steamer-juicer which is a three-tiered juicer that uses steam to extract juice from any fruit. The three large pots stack together and are used on the stove top. We plop the crabapples (or any fruit) in the top sieve-like pot, pour water (to make steam) in the bottom pot, and voila… the best apple juice ever collects in the middle pot. We seal the hot quart jars of fruit juice and have it all year ‘round. We also give it as Christmas presents because people love it. Even if the crabapples are bitter or sour, they still give amazing juice. Many folks call us to come and pick their crabapples because we have a steamer-juicer and we pick the crabapples off their trees before the bears do. Rachel, this video was awesome!! I loved the scenery and the little lessons that you gave. I truly did learn a lot. Honestly, you and Cookie are just the cutest darn thing!! The swim at the end was the icing on the cake. More vids like this please, if you should feel the urge. Thanks and I hope you are getting your energy back. 💦🌎Ⓜary🍎
Hey Mary, thanks for your lovely video review! I love the sound of the steamer juicer, I've never heard of one of those. I've been keeping my eyes out for more wild apples and I'm going to collect some more when I can. I havene't found any hazel trees with nuts on them yet, they are often used as hedges, so get cut frequently so end up fruitless - I've only spotted one so far (on the guided foraging walk). I'll see what I can do about some similar content, but I'm feeling like getting back to a little more educational swimmy content soon. I do have one video idea up my sleeve along these lines which I'll do when the time is right. Are you on Facebook Mary? I'm a member of the Cold Water Addicts in Vancouver, and they've invited me to give a talk in early October at 6pm their time. Seems they have Thirsday tea time talks through the winter and I'm delighted to be part of their international series... Rach 🏊🐶🌰🍎🍀🍂🍃
@@EverydayAthleteRach Hey Rachel, just as a side-note… the steamer-juicer is not common here either. Most people have never heard of them, but we learned about them (about 20 years ago) from a gardening friend and we use it in early Autumn mostly to juice crabapples and berries. The brand of ours is Norpro. I’d been keen for more educational swimmy content at any time. The temperature of my local lake is dropping fast, and as of yesterday, this high school teacher is back in the classroom. Makes me sad to see the wild swimming season begin to wind down. I am not on Facebook but my partner is. I’d love to watch your talk in early October, maybe you could let me know the date. Wow… 6pm our time is 2:00am your time. Is the talk, something you film in advance and then post, or is it a live stream? What a cool thing to be invited to speak to this group. Keep me posted. Hope you find some more wild apples and other tasty edibles… blackberries… yum!! 💦🌎Ⓜary🍎
Can make sloe jelly (jam) with the sloes - according to a forager I met yesterday on a dog walk apparently they can be used for this at this time of year (i.e. when the berries aren't shiny).. ace vid.. hope your belly in full of your foraged delights x
Belly not full yet, was a bit experiemental and not targetted. I did make flapjack using the foraged apples and have had blackberries in my breakfast most days. I'm gonna keep looking as it'd be great to make some pesto or something like that..
Hi Jesse, my parents bought me a foraging book called forgae for self-sufficiency, but I've also heard of another good one called The Thrift Forager by Alys Fowler. I looked into foraging walks online, but there are a couple of good links in the description to this video. I'd say start with leaves, fruit and nuts before graduating to mushrooms - at the moment I'm just spotting those but not collecting as I don't know what's safe yet.
Rachel - your curiosity for life is such an inspiration - I think wild swimming goes so well with foraging for edibles and kindling then cooking up a tasty post swim snack on the Box bush stove - the simple otherworldly things of life hey! I must say some wilted wild garlic in the Spring takes a bacon sandwich into another league x
I think I’m winding up to a video like that. Need to find some more tasty morsels first, like you say I think spring will be the better time for it 😋
Hi Rachel, you look so well and lovely to see Cookie too. I am catching up on your videos this evening and this one is great. What an inspirational woman you are. Thank you 😊
Well Sandy you’ve really raised my spirits with this lovely comment, thank you. We had a lovely walk!
With rosehip, crab apples, blackberries and hawthorn and other apples you can make hedgerow jelly. Brilliant book on preserving by Pam Corbin...
I'll check that out, thanks.
It looks like you had a lot of fun Rachel! The smaller crab apples you found make excellent jelly. I usually make a sweet jelly to have on toast, but if you added chillies it would be marvellous with cold cuts or stirred into a casserole to pep it up a little.
Now we're talking, I do love a good chilli jam, and this might be the fruit of choice for that. Thanks for the inspiration Mairead 🍎🌶🍞😋
you can make a salve out of plantain - take leaves and seeds, crush them up and steep them in oil (sunflower or olive) for a couple of months, strain and mix with some melted beeswax, pour into a container and leave it to set. then you can rub in onto stings/bites when you need it!
Wow! Thanks for sharing the recipe/method.
Loved this vlog,your walk was really diverse and enjoyable.
I envied the swim with cookie.lol.xxxx
Thanks for joining us. Cookie wasn't that keen to get in to swim depth, but once in she was fine, i love to see a dog swimming!
I was so happy to see your video ping up in my notifications yesterday! I look forward to Tuesdays to see what you’ve been up to! I’d love to see you make something out of acorn flour!! I’ve not done much foraging before but I have used wild garlic in soup! It was delicious! It has a lovely delicate and subtle flavour! At the end it was lovely to see you swim with Cookie! Does she enjoy swimming now? We have friends with a Spaniel and she absolutely loves swimming! 🐶🐶
I'll see what I can do on the acorn flour front. It seems there's some drying etc that needs to happen in the oven, so long as all of the acorns aren't soggy!
Beautiful landscape. Love rose hips! High vitamin C good little snack as well as tea. My favorite skincare is organic cold pressed rosehip oil.
I’ll take a look into those suggestions. Do you eat them raw?
@@EverydayAthleteRach I have and are tart from vitamin C. Tastes much like rosehip tea but fresher.
Great video Rachel, you lucked in on Samphire! We have sea beet growing everywhere in the front garden and use it in curry and salads sometimes, we pick the upper leaves as the lower ones might be dog pee flavour :O
Yes I was pretty surprised especially with how tender it actually was. Now to get enough knowledge to actually make something edible! 😋
Good on ya. This is the first year I've gotten stuck into foraging too and I made a buttload of Elderberry & Blackberry jam a couple nights ago, and some Rowan & Crab Apple jam last night. Other things to look out for that I'm eating tons of just now are Puffball & Field mushrooms, Sorrel and Himalayan honeysuckle/Pheasant berries.
Rock on!
Shawn you’ve inspired me I’ll have a look for some more hits and jobs and get cooking! I made flapjack with the apple. 😋
That looked fun. I posted hedgerow jelly while I thought about it! You are right about sloes. I picked early first time. However, gin tasted great! If you freeze sloes and then defrost for making gin, it breaks up the skin and saves making pin holes. Rosehip packed with vitamin C. I have made cordial with them.
I'm all over this, a project for the next few weekends maybe. Rancid weather permitting!
Aww loved you and your dog swimming. My border collie won't entertain it. I've foraged for fruits not much else, but was fun to learn other plants that are edible. :)
There are some great books out there and some decent YT channels to get you inspired 😋
Sloes, rosehips and crab apples make amazing jams/jellies 😋 but my favourite are wild blueberries or as we call them fraughans, luckily they grow on the mountains close to me and make amazing pies/tarts - best picked at end July
I'm not sure if I know where you are based to be near mountains? A sweet berry is a great find, I've never seen wild blueberries, but my friend and I spotted a wild red currant each on the guided walk and gobbled that up!
@@EverydayAthleteRach red currants are yum. You will need to find a mountain bog that is not too wet or exposed, the blueberries love to grown along the edges of the trees. Luckily I am in Delgany, Ireland so have the mountains and the sea on my doorstep
Oh contraire Rachel… this was quite educational. Barring the fact that you didn’t provide the Latin names for these edible plants (haha!🤣), I learned a lot. We don’t have sloes here at all and blackberries, although plentiful in the south, they don’t grow in the north because the winters are too cold. Even if we did have either of these, I’m pretty sure the bears would get them first. Oh, how I do love blackberries!!
I would suspect that so many leaves have dried up and fallen early due to the hot dry summer conditions you’ve had in the UK this year. The same thing is happening here.
I’m not sure if you’re interested but… we have a steamer-juicer which is a three-tiered juicer that uses steam to extract juice from any fruit. The three large pots stack together and are used on the stove top. We plop the crabapples (or any fruit) in the top sieve-like pot, pour water (to make steam) in the bottom pot, and voila… the best apple juice ever collects in the middle pot. We seal the hot quart jars of fruit juice and have it all year ‘round. We also give it as Christmas presents because people love it. Even if the crabapples are bitter or sour, they still give amazing juice. Many folks call us to come and pick their crabapples because we have a steamer-juicer and we pick the crabapples off their trees before the bears do.
Rachel, this video was awesome!! I loved the scenery and the little lessons that you gave. I truly did learn a lot. Honestly, you and Cookie are just the cutest darn thing!! The swim at the end was the icing on the cake. More vids like this please, if you should feel the urge. Thanks and I hope you are getting your energy back. 💦🌎Ⓜary🍎
Hey Mary, thanks for your lovely video review! I love the sound of the steamer juicer, I've never heard of one of those. I've been keeping my eyes out for more wild apples and I'm going to collect some more when I can. I havene't found any hazel trees with nuts on them yet, they are often used as hedges, so get cut frequently so end up fruitless - I've only spotted one so far (on the guided foraging walk). I'll see what I can do about some similar content, but I'm feeling like getting back to a little more educational swimmy content soon. I do have one video idea up my sleeve along these lines which I'll do when the time is right. Are you on Facebook Mary? I'm a member of the Cold Water Addicts in Vancouver, and they've invited me to give a talk in early October at 6pm their time. Seems they have Thirsday tea time talks through the winter and I'm delighted to be part of their international series... Rach 🏊🐶🌰🍎🍀🍂🍃
@@EverydayAthleteRach Hey Rachel, just as a side-note… the steamer-juicer is not common here either. Most people have never heard of them, but we learned about them (about 20 years ago) from a gardening friend and we use it in early Autumn mostly to juice crabapples and berries. The brand of ours is Norpro. I’d been keen for more educational swimmy content at any time. The temperature of my local lake is dropping fast, and as of yesterday, this high school teacher is back in the classroom. Makes me sad to see the wild swimming season begin to wind down. I am not on Facebook but my partner is. I’d love to watch your talk in early October, maybe you could let me know the date. Wow… 6pm our time is 2:00am your time. Is the talk, something you film in advance and then post, or is it a live stream? What a cool thing to be invited to speak to this group. Keep me posted. Hope you find some more wild apples and other tasty edibles… blackberries… yum!! 💦🌎Ⓜary🍎
First like from Morocco 🇲🇦 we miss you really
Great to hear from you Said, hope you enjoyed the walk around the Hampshire countryside!
@@EverydayAthleteRach sure .we need to see some greenness 🫒🍇🍒 thank you so much 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻💖
Can make sloe jelly (jam) with the sloes - according to a forager I met yesterday on a dog walk apparently they can be used for this at this time of year (i.e. when the berries aren't shiny).. ace vid.. hope your belly in full of your foraged delights x
Belly not full yet, was a bit experiemental and not targetted. I did make flapjack using the foraged apples and have had blackberries in my breakfast most days. I'm gonna keep looking as it'd be great to make some pesto or something like that..
If you shake an apple you can hear the pips if it’s ripe.
Great tip!!
This is fantastic! How would you suggest I start my foraging adventures?
Hi Jesse, my parents bought me a foraging book called forgae for self-sufficiency, but I've also heard of another good one called The Thrift Forager by Alys Fowler. I looked into foraging walks online, but there are a couple of good links in the description to this video. I'd say start with leaves, fruit and nuts before graduating to mushrooms - at the moment I'm just spotting those but not collecting as I don't know what's safe yet.
You can blanch those nettle leaves and put them in a salad or dry them and make nettle tea.
I dried them and collected the seeds for a salad topping. Haven’t been brave enough to try it yet!
@@EverydayAthleteRach I think they taste gross but they're good for you so.....