#30DaysWild - week 2

Day 6

Picking nettles to make nettle cordial

Spotted a ladybird on the way home

Day 7

Visited St Annes - afternoon on the beach

Day 8

Cleaning up and playing with our shells

Amy found the first strawberry in the garden

Day 9

Early morning play in the garden in pyjamas!

Home ed group trip to the park - den making

seeing whats on the lake

tree climbing

Day 10

Sketching our beach finds

Day 11

Food festival and flower face painting

Day 12

Flower picture

Foraging walk

Today we went on one of the Manchester festival walks along the Rochdale canal in Newton Heath.
It was a foraging walk led by Jesper Launder, a very knowledgeable herbalist.

The first plant we saw was Ribwort plantain, the brown tops before they flower taste nutty and the leaves are said to be good as a tea to help cure hayfever.

Ox eye daisy - unopened flowers are tasty

Ground elder - young shoots

Meadowsweet

Common/Tufted vetch - like pea shoots

We found many other edible plants, many i can't remember now but some we discussed were:

Japenese knotweed - not as deadly as is made out. (Can be kept under control by nettles)
Rosebay Willow herb
Hawthorn - flowers smell rather fishy but apparently berries make delicious ketchup
Sorrel

 Some goslings on the canal

An interesting walk and lots of new tastes to be tried!