I discovered wild garlic in full lockdown on my daily walk. I made so much garlic butter. Love the stuff. Nettles will be on my next forage,when the weather warms up.
I got wild garlic leaves today. I'll try your recipe, and put some in vinegar, oil, and make a garlic pesto, and also dry some and powder it. I'll leave half as powder, and make half into seasalt with garlic powder.
Thank you so much Lea, (not sure if this is the right spelling). I really really enjoyed watching you collect those wild greens and then to try them out. Please stay safe and well too xxx Mags
Wild garlic 🧄 pesto is strong in flavour but so nice. Add garlic bulb. Hazelnuts olive oil and salt. Grind it in a pestle and mortar. 👌 have it with a bit lamb. I’m subscribing to this channel. I love to forage. 👍
Hi Andy - thanks for your comment. We've actually been thinking of making a Wld Garlic pesto video. Hazelnuts would be great, it's a shame the garlic and nuts aren't out in the same season, but I guess you could use frozen leaves or shop bought nuts, depending on the time of year. Thanks for the sub too :-)
Absolutely fantastic and i cant wait until the nettles come out soon so i can make that recipe, i have only made nettle soup before so this will be a new one for me, thank you very much and a good video.
Great video. We have a patch of wild garlic near us I've discovered recently and am hoping to use. PS Can I ask the name of the music you used in the video?
Hello lea, I hope you and all your family are all well. I’ve just discovered ( and subscribed) to your site. It’s brilliant that you are helping people to recognise and utilise natural food that grows abundantly around us. ( as I have got older I find this really interesting) I’m not sure if you are still posting information. If so I would love to ask you for advice. Kind regards, Les 👍
@@WoodlandClassroom thank you so much for your response 👍 I love to cook, and seeing your post’s made me think about sourcing local plants and herbs.( my philosophy is that naturally grown plants will taste better and I can use small amounts rather than buying from a supermarket and throwing dying plants away. Especially horseradish root) So I wondered where the best places to find certain plants while foraging. I appreciate its a bit vague but I really want to go out and look for myself. I live in Kingston upon Thames, in Surrey if that is important 🤦♂️ As you can see I’m very green ( or not 🙂) I hope this finds you and yours in good health. Kind regards, Les
Thanks Ive subbed! Im gonna try this...outside! Wild garlic Is so delicious, so much better than spring onions or garlic from a shop. It's easy to eat raw as well, not too fibrous!
Congratulations! THAT looked absolute deliciousness! What a pity I couldn't possibly get a taste! Regards from "The Colonies" 😉😁 Connecticut, New England USA!
Hi, how many days does wild garlic need to harvest from the date of budding or planting?! Can he handle high scores?Its seeds have been found sold on websites! Do you recommend growing it at home or not?!
Not yet but we are hosting a workshop on Poisonous Plants next week, including Dogs Mercury. You can sign up here: woodlandclassroom.com/event/poisonous-plants-every-forager-should-know-online-workshop/
Foragers should be aware that you must have permission from the landowner in the UK to dig up a plant, so unless you have permission just take a few of the young leaves from several plants and do not take the bulbs.
Yes this is true. If uprooting the plant you need permission from the landowner. Wild Garlic is an ancient woodland indicator species so we need to be sensitive to the potential impact on the ecology and also be only uprooting if the plant is in abundance locally.
Thanks. Where I live in Ireland, there’s lot of wild garlic beneath the Beech trees, I chopped up a load and put it on my home made pasta, delish. I’m always weary about foraging though because I think wild animals pee on the plants and there’s some big rats out there too.
Hi Darby. I would advise picking away from well used footpaths and if you want to be doubly sure they are clean, give them a good wash before eating. Good luck.
I've been using my daily exercise walks to forage for wild food. I got Nettle tops a few days ago, and Ransoms today. Lockdown has at least given me time to work on my foraging skills.
Thanks Betsy. We wouldn't want to promote unsustainable harvesting of wild foods. Generally we are not harvesting the bulbs at all, the foliage is much better for food purposes and we want the plant to regrow. We've harvested bulbs just once ourselves. It's up to individuals to take responsibility for what they harvest and do with with an informed knowledge of the area and permission of the landowner. I'll certainly have a look at the DEFRA list and see if our information needs to be updated.
If you have the smell of garlic strongly when you crush the fresh leaf it really can only be wild garlic. If you're still unsure, I would make some time to look at several Wild Garlic ID videos across TH-cam, then head out with a field guide to build your confidence. Good luck.
@@ethnikhart I have mixed Wild GFarlic with olive oil and a little vinegar and it has lasted weeks in the fridge, or frozen it mixed with a little water :-)
Wow, great insight on foraging and educational, the best I’ve seen! Great passion, really well edited and very inspiring to me, as I’ve only just started my new channel. I’ve subscribed & it would be great to get some feedback on my channel too, as I’ve also published a video on this. Great to have a community network and share insights
Woodland Classroom thanks! I’ve also got a cocktail channel, where I’ve covered elderflower cocktails. Let me know what you think? th-cam.com/play/PLdsFNaW1ftoSq9fWedc1Apsz5LwJHHfRP.html
Wow... what you all call Wild Garlic over in your part of the world looks vastly different from what is known as Wild Garlic here in the US. Viewers should be careful to ensure that any video about forage plants applies to the local area in which they live.
@@WoodlandClassroom I'm in New York, but I recently saw a video where someone in Texas was advocating to eat Wild Onion. What he was calling a wild onion down in Texas is known everywhere else (within the USA) as "False Garlic" or possibly "White Star of Bethlehem" (another look-alike). Other sources state that the False Garlic is also known as "Crow's Poison". As far as I have seen, most sources state that the False Garlic and White Star of Bethlehem should not be eaten - all parts of it are supposedly not good for you.
I discovered wild garlic in full lockdown on my daily walk. I made so much garlic butter. Love the stuff. Nettles will be on my next forage,when the weather warms up.
Nettles and Wild Garlic go so well together and are a superfood!!!! Enjoy :-)
I got wild garlic leaves today. I'll try your recipe, and put some in vinegar, oil, and make a garlic pesto, and also dry some and powder it. I'll leave half as powder, and make half into seasalt with garlic powder.
That's good going as it's very late in the season for leaves now. Yes garlic salt is a good way to preserve it.
Beautiful video 💚✌️ sending love from Boca Raton Florida
Thank you so much Lea, (not sure if this is the right spelling). I really really enjoyed watching you collect those wild greens and then to try them out. Please stay safe and well too xxx Mags
Wild garlic 🧄 pesto is strong in flavour but so nice. Add garlic bulb. Hazelnuts olive oil and salt. Grind it in a pestle and mortar. 👌 have it with a bit lamb. I’m subscribing to this channel. I love to forage. 👍
Hi Andy - thanks for your comment. We've actually been thinking of making a Wld Garlic pesto video. Hazelnuts would be great, it's a shame the garlic and nuts aren't out in the same season, but I guess you could use frozen leaves or shop bought nuts, depending on the time of year. Thanks for the sub too :-)
Yesterday like ate . All raw. Ransoms. Chilves. Mint. Lemon balm. And dandelion flowers. Helping me to loose weight and boost the immune system.
romanbrough you’ll have a very healthy gut biome 👍🏻
In USA, we live in the forest and mid-April we have abundance of wild garlic too love it
Wild Garlic is definitely a foragers favourite :-)
Very Awesome I love wild garlic.
I love this video! Just back from my first forage of the year - the wonderful wild garlic. Looked up a video and so glad I found yours...Cheers!
Thanks angela :-)
So wonderful! Im living in France and I do the same thing as you...
Great :-)
Fantastic recipe and wow what an amazing channel . Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge
Blessings from Ritchie and Raven
thanks for your support, we appreciate it.
you got my sub! this is great information they should be teaching this in schools!
Thanks for the support Derby. I hear there's momentum building for a Natural History GSCE. Hopefully that will come to something.
Everybody knows we just didnt tell you !
made some lovely wild garlic pesto today. really lovely mixed in with mayonnaise.
great to hear it 🙂
My brother suggested your video, so glad he did. New subscriber here 👍
welcome aboard
@@WoodlandClassroom thank you 👍
This was really refreshing to watch, thanks for sharing
Thanks very much. Happy foraging.
Very clear presentation
Thank you :-)
I feel positive energy from you. Thank you for this video.
Herbal Vision thank you so much 😊
Absolutely fantastic and i cant wait until the nettles come out soon so i can make that recipe, i have only made nettle soup before so this will be a new one for me, thank you very much and a good video.
Delightful tutorial ....will be giving this ago!
Enjoy :-)
Love your smile! What great energy you have :)
Thank you so much!!
What a fresh and tasty meal! I feel peaceful watching your video 😘😘😘
Ms Pila T ah that’s lovely to hear, glad you feel peaceful 😊
Wonderful dish. My love for black pepper drives my wife crazy too haha!
Got to have black pepper lol
@@WoodlandClassroom Oh yes please!, lol
Dandelion leaves soaked get the milky sap off with salty water. are them big pink flowers afters ?
Super! So beautiful and very soothing symphony of culinary delight.
Thank you :-)
Made this last year absolutely fantastic hope you both are well
Thanks, good to know folks are out there foraging and making the most of how tasty wild garlic is. We're all fine here thanks - keeping busy :-)
Thanks, good video, away to pick some now, should be loads out now (mid march). Also, nice to know about the bulb, not many people mention the bulb!
Yes the bulb is great for using throughout the year in cooking, but only if there is an abundance of Wild Garlic to go around :-)
Great video. We have a patch of wild garlic near us I've discovered recently and am hoping to use.
PS Can I ask the name of the music you used in the video?
Thanks for the feedback. I',m not sure what the music is called. It came with iMovie I think. Sorry we can't be of more help.
Looks lovely,I’m a gardener and came on to see if wild garlic could be used rather than just thrown away👍🏼
Hi Andy, we ran a wild food and cooking course over the weekend and we dipped the unopened flower heads in batter and made tempura! it was yummy :-)
Lovely thank you
Happy foraging
Nice informative video 👍
Nice video lovely wild
Hello lea,
I hope you and all your family are all well.
I’ve just discovered ( and subscribed) to your site.
It’s brilliant that you are helping people to recognise and utilise natural food that grows abundantly around us. ( as I have got older I find this really interesting)
I’m not sure if you are still posting information. If so I would love to ask you for advice.
Kind regards,
Les 👍
Thanks for the support Les. If you have a question we will do or best to answer.
@@WoodlandClassroom thank you so much for your response 👍
I love to cook, and seeing your post’s made me think about sourcing local plants and herbs.( my philosophy is that naturally grown plants will taste better and I can use small amounts rather than buying from a supermarket and throwing dying plants away. Especially horseradish root)
So I wondered where the best places to find certain plants while foraging.
I appreciate its a bit vague but I really want to go out and look for myself.
I live in Kingston upon Thames, in Surrey if that is important 🤦♂️
As you can see I’m very green ( or not 🙂)
I hope this finds you and yours in good health.
Kind regards, Les
Thanks Ive subbed! Im gonna try this...outside! Wild garlic Is so delicious, so much better than spring onions or garlic from a shop. It's easy to eat raw as well, not too fibrous!
Veil Break yes it is delicious and so versatile and healthy, just a shame it doesn’t grow all year round 😋
Congratulations! THAT looked absolute deliciousness!
What a pity I couldn't possibly get a taste!
Regards from "The Colonies" 😉😁
Connecticut, New England USA!
Wild garlic is really tasty. :-)
Thanks! hope you can make it yourself so you get to taste it :-)
this is such a lovely video. Thank you! I cannot wait to go foraging :)
Enjoy and thanks!
We just made a video on How To Make Wild Garlic Kimchi. Watch it here: th-cam.com/video/bFGnHvImWsA/w-d-xo.html
OMG !!!!! This is GRATE
Thanks :-)
Only you and your spelling is GRATER
Great information and recipes, Thank you
No problem and thank you!
thank you!
Hi, how many days does wild garlic need to harvest from the date of budding or planting?! Can he handle high scores?Its seeds have been found sold on websites! Do you recommend growing it at home or not?!
You can certainly try and sow bulbs at home. They can be quite picky about where they grow though. Always source your bulbs from a reputable seller.
Do you have a video on dog Mercury?
Not yet but we are hosting a workshop on Poisonous Plants next week, including Dogs Mercury. You can sign up here: woodlandclassroom.com/event/poisonous-plants-every-forager-should-know-online-workshop/
Foragers should be aware that you must have permission from the landowner in the UK to dig up a plant, so unless you have permission just take a few of the young leaves from several plants and do not take the bulbs.
Yes this is true. If uprooting the plant you need permission from the landowner. Wild Garlic is an ancient woodland indicator species so we need to be sensitive to the potential impact on the ecology and also be only uprooting if the plant is in abundance locally.
i love this! subbing!
Wonder full 😊
thanks :-)
Thanks for this! Have a big patch of wild garlic down the end of the garden waiting to be used :)
Great to hear it's so close by. Bet of luck with your foraging. We're hoping to make a video on Wild Garlic pesto next.
I love the way you speak English. You are beautiful. the rest is all the same like I am doing. 🤝💛 🇮🇳
Thanks. Where I live in Ireland, there’s lot of wild garlic beneath the Beech trees, I chopped up a load and put it on my home made pasta, delish. I’m always weary about foraging though because I think wild animals pee on the plants and there’s some big rats out there too.
Hi Darby. I would advise picking away from well used footpaths and if you want to be doubly sure they are clean, give them a good wash before eating. Good luck.
@@WoodlandClassroom Thanks love.
Great information
Yum ❤
I've been using my daily exercise walks to forage for wild food. I got Nettle tops a few days ago, and Ransoms today. Lockdown has at least given me time to work on my foraging skills.
Lockdown has been great for that. Have you seen that we are running monthly foraging webinars?
I live your Videos. Ihave aqeution where are you in England or USA or in australia? Which Land can I find wildcarlic (ramsons)? thank you .
I wonder if a wild garlic head is solid like a tame garlic or a head like a onion what makes it a wild garlic
I found stinging nettles for the first time a couple weeks ago. It was a painful discovery.
I made nettle syrup, it is also healthy and tasty. Try it :-)
hey, where do you live? i'm guessing in the UK, right? 🤔 not to sound weird, just interested ':)
We are in North East Wales
The bulbs are on DEFRA protected list and should not be harvested, abundance or not.
Thanks Betsy. We wouldn't want to promote unsustainable harvesting of wild foods. Generally we are not harvesting the bulbs at all, the foliage is much better for food purposes and we want the plant to regrow. We've harvested bulbs just once ourselves. It's up to individuals to take responsibility for what they harvest and do with with an informed knowledge of the area and permission of the landowner. I'll certainly have a look at the DEFRA list and see if our information needs to be updated.
Where are you living because I m from UK and I can’t found it
We are in North East Wales. You will find wild garlic wherever there are ancient woodlands. Look on an OS map as they are indicated there.
@@WoodlandClassroom Thank you so much 😊
I never seen it, I stay in NewCastle ENGLAND 🤔
Try looking at ancient woodland sites, that's a good start. Good luck.
cheers , very informative ; ]
Thanks - happy eating.
Video good you again viet nam thank you
I keep smelling it when I'm out but never pick it incase I get it wrong
If you have the smell of garlic strongly when you crush the fresh leaf it really can only be wild garlic. If you're still unsure, I would make some time to look at several Wild Garlic ID videos across TH-cam, then head out with a field guide to build your confidence. Good luck.
Lol paused at 7:04 that is not the face of someone enjoying their food :D
lol it must have been my curious face
İs it delicious?
It was very tasty thanks
The only thing missing was someone to share it with.
Lol My husband and cameraman shared it with me :-)
is that the real garlic, without toxins?
Real Wild Garlic
Woodland Classroom Than I must find a way to preserve it for winter :)
@@ethnikhart I have mixed Wild GFarlic with olive oil and a little vinegar and it has lasted weeks in the fridge, or frozen it mixed with a little water :-)
Woodland Classroom You are an artist an it feats you very well being in nature :). Thank you very much for sharing 🙏☺️
Wow, great insight on foraging and educational, the best I’ve seen! Great passion, really well edited and very inspiring to me, as I’ve only just started my new channel. I’ve subscribed & it would be great to get some feedback on my channel too, as I’ve also published a video on this. Great to have a community network and share insights
I've watched a couple of your videos now, keep meaning to watch more. Keep up the good work :-)
Woodland Classroom thanks! I’ve also got a cocktail channel, where I’ve covered elderflower cocktails. Let me know what you think? th-cam.com/play/PLdsFNaW1ftoSq9fWedc1Apsz5LwJHHfRP.html
Wow... what you all call Wild Garlic over in your part of the world looks vastly different from what is known as Wild Garlic here in the US. Viewers should be careful to ensure that any video about forage plants applies to the local area in which they live.
Yes this is always true. Do check the latin name of the plant being discussed so you're sure it's the same one.,
@@WoodlandClassroom I'm in New York, but I recently saw a video where someone in Texas was advocating to eat Wild Onion. What he was calling a wild onion down in Texas is known everywhere else (within the USA) as "False Garlic" or possibly "White Star of Bethlehem" (another look-alike). Other sources state that the False Garlic is also known as "Crow's Poison". As far as I have seen, most sources state that the False Garlic and White Star of Bethlehem should not be eaten - all parts of it are supposedly not good for you.
@@danielcarter491 Good to know
nice welding gloves. sexy forager, I never thought id ever say that!
lol