Discover guides on growing, foraging, and cooking with berries across the UK.
Bramble jelly is the classic hedgerow preserve: deep purple, crystal clear, and set firm enough to hold a knife mark. Unlike jam, it has no seeds and no pulp,...
See recipe →There are few plants that give as generously as the elder. From a single shrub you get two harvests in two different seasons: frothy heads of elderflower in...
Growing guide →This blackberry and apple crumble takes 15 minutes to prepare and about 40 minutes in the oven, and it's the pudding I make more than any other once the...
See recipe →There's a glorious, slightly panicked moment every summer when the berries all seem to ripen at once. The bushes are heaving, the bowls are full, and you've...
Growing guide →Alpine strawberries are the easiest fruit I grow, and the one most people overlook. They don't send out runners, they don't sprawl across the bed, and they'll...
Read article →A loganberry is a hybrid fruit created by crossing a raspberry with a blackberry — long, conical, and wine-red when ripe, with a sharp, tart flavour that's...
Growing guide →By the third week of July, every loganberry grower hits the same wall: the plant is producing faster than the household can eat. The good news — and I mean...
Growing guide →The rowan tree — also called mountain ash, though it's not related to the ash family — is one of the most beautiful native trees in Britain, particularly in...
Foraging guide →Hawthorn is everywhere in Britain — one of the most common trees and hedgerow shrubs in the country, found from sea level to 600 m, from Cornwall to the...
Foraging guide →Sloes are one of the most distinctive wild fruits in the British countryside, and one of the most underused. The small, dark blue-black berries of the...
Foraging guide →Redcurrants are one of those plants that get overlooked in British gardens, which is a shame, because they're among the most reliable fruiting shrubs you can...
Growing guide →Somewhere between the jam pan and the third straight day of picking, most loganberry growers ask the obvious question: is this fruit actually good for me, or...
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