Wild Edge

Wild Edge Wild Edge ๐ŸŒฑ Your guide to nature connection! Offering wild food courses, transforming verges & gardens, & fighting food poverty. Fall in love with the hedgerow.

We're on a mission to build communities & rebuild lost biodiversity. Discover wild food & unleash your inner forager! We are a social enterprise that provides communities with wild food education, through foraging walks, cookery classes, and free food initiatives. Alongside this work, we also seek to preserve and share the knowledge of heritage crafts. A percentage of profit made from our ticketed

walks and courses allows us to provide the same service, for free, to those experiencing local food poverty in our community. We believe that all people should have access to wild food education and the confidence to access nutritious, sustainable, local, fresh food. For every walk or course you purchase from The Family Foraging Kitchen โ€“ you help to provide a local Cornish family the skills to find free food forever. There is a good deal of fear and misinformation surrounding the use and consumption of wild plants, and we believe the best way to combat this is to share knowledge about how these plants can be used. Modern agricultural methods have meant that foraging, once a part of our ancestral daily life, has faded away, replaced by regular family trips to the supermarket. We are now disconnected from the food that we eat. Given the ecological, social and environmental crisis that we now face globally, humanity needs to - rather urgently and radically - examine its relationship with food and how we acquire it. Foraging is about more than just food and nourishment; it gets us out into the countryside, helps to cultivate an intimate appreciation of nature, lets us explore history, science and folklore; can bond families, strengthen communities and reestablish connections severed by modern life. Inspire younger generations to learn traditional skills and knowledge. Get truly wild in your kitchen. Take an edible journey and explore the beautiful Rame Peninsula.

14/07/2026

Join our Team - Species Recovery Officer
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buglife.org.uk/job/species-recovery-officer-south-east-england-july-26/

๐Ÿ˜ We have an exciting opportunity to join the Buglife Team!

โ„น๏ธ Application deadline: Monday 13 July 2026

๐Ÿฆ‹ Buglife is recruiting a Species Recovery Officer to help to deliver a portfolio of species recovery projects across the South-East and East of England, to include species such as Heath Grasshopper (Chorthippus vagans), New Forest Shieldbug (Eysarcoris aeneus), Wormwood Moonshiner (Amara fusca) and the beetle Diastictus vulneratus.

๐ŸYou will conserve invertebrates and their habitats by inspiring, influencing and supporting others, and by managing and enhancing the environment. Individual work plans are set according to project delivery, organisational strategy, funding available, skills of the officer and opportunities that arise.

Find out more and apply
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buglife.org.uk/job/species-recovery-officer-south-east-england-july-26/

Not for you? โค๏ธ๐Ÿ”ƒ with your family and friends, to help some fascinating invertebrates.
England Royal Entomological Society

Making a nettle seed and sea salt focaccia for part of my customers private walk and wild lunch tomorrow!
14/07/2026

Making a nettle seed and sea salt focaccia for part of my customers private walk and wild lunch tomorrow!

Tasty free plums in the community orchard in Millbrook right now! Lots of great unbruised windfall from yesterday if you...
14/07/2026

Tasty free plums in the community orchard in Millbrook right now! Lots of great unbruised windfall from yesterday if youโ€™re quick!

13/07/2026

Goldcrest.

Britain's smallest garden visitor, full of colour and character.

Part of Jim's British Garden Birds series.

Limited edition prints available.

10/07/2026

Did you know brown long-eared bats love perching in their favourite spot and eat moths? They are not so keen on the wings though, and will just let them fall on the floor unscathed.

This photo, taken by Mike Mullis, is a collection of moth wings left by a brown long-eared bat from underneath its feeding roosts in his barn in East Sussex.

The wings had been discarded by the bats from various perches inside the barn - some are easy to find and pick up while others often settle in remote spots that are difficult to reach or just fall into spider's webs.

Some extra information on the behind the scenes of capturing this from Mike: "The main problem is that individual wings are simply laid down on the A4 sheet without being fixed or stuck in any way. It can be quite a nightmare as any small movement of my hand or body can flip the moth wings over, then I have to delicately fiddle around with them in position or have to re-position them completely. Have to keep all windows & doors closed to do all this. Took me about 3.0 hours to produce and get photo'd".

(photo shared with Mike's permission)

Another walk date for your diaries!
08/07/2026

Another walk date for your diaries!

Join experienced forager and environmental educator Vix Ryder of Wild Edge for a guided exploration of the plants, trees and wild foods found in Cornwallโ€™s hedgerows and grasslands. Date: Sunday [โ€ฆ]

08/07/2026

๐Ÿฆ‹ In the UK, there are more species of day-flying moth than there are species of butterfly!

Of these, the distinctive red and black Cinnabar and burnet moths, which you have a good chance of seeing in gardens and grasslands at this time of year, can be difficult to tell apart. However, learning to identify them can be a fun introduction to the world of the lepidopterist.

Both have black forewings and red hindwings, but the upperwings of the Cinnabar have a long red streak down each side, and two red spots at the bottom edge of each wing. The Six-spot Burnet has six spots, whilst the two five-spot burnet species have five.

๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช There are also another three burnet moth species found in the UK, but these are restricted to limited ranges in parts of Scotland and Ireland.

๐Ÿ› Cinnabar moths thrive in grassy areas, wasteland, and heathland where Ragwort grows. Our three common burnet moths are found in similar open spaces but require Birdโ€™s-foot Trefoil for their caterpillars.

07/07/2026

GCSE in natural history - Have your say

There is still time to offer your thoughts on what the subject content for this new qualification should look like.๐Ÿค”

Following earlier collaboration with experts and stakeholders, including ourselves, the Department for Education consultation is inviting wider public input. Feedback received will play a key role in finalising the content of the GCSE.

The closing date is Friday 4th September.

๐Ÿ”— Find out more and have your say: https://buff.ly/WHjfSO1

All grown in my garden. Summer vegetables roasted in olive oil, lemon juice, tahini and honey.
06/07/2026

All grown in my garden. Summer vegetables roasted in olive oil, lemon juice, tahini and honey.

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