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I set this site up over a decade ago, a time when I was heavily involved in the beer world: I gave talks, brewed beer,

Eating Heracleum sphondylium or common hogweed Hogweed can be eaten in many ways. The simplest is to pick some of the seeds, which cling onto

Wild food Bristol tasting picnic – April 27th – St Werbughs Bristol You already have the skills to find wild food in Bristol, I just

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There is a perfumery to juniper that elicits something otherworldly.

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Chances are you have had thousands of chemesthetic responses, you just didn't know what they were called

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... the next mistake was how it was served, I poured it from a half filled two litre green plastic bottle.

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just the smell of the flowers can cause hallucinations

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my long romance with plants started off as a brief affair.

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years later I returned to the same alpine range.

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Have you heard of the 10,000 hours hypothesis? It was first proposed by music theorist Anders Ericsson in the 1980s; the simplified and popularized interpretation

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