FORAGING FOR FOOD - EVEN IN YOUR GARDEN!

There are people in tight financial circumstances almost everywhere today - millions are unemployed in major European countries and the USA, struggling to find enough money to keep themselves and their children fed while prices keep on rising in the supermarkets and benefit payments are being squeezed.

One way we can supplement our fresh food supplies is to take note of how our elders coped during previous hard times - the great depression, the second world war, etc. Apart from the allotments, the use of any spare garden space for planting with potatoes, beans, etc, it was the prudent use of foraging to gather wild foods that saw many through those difficult times.

So what foods can you gather in your own garden, down country lanes, even in local parks perhaps?

Elderflower