Nursery World - Enabling Environments: Wild Food

Never mind if the plant is a weed, it's wild, free, cookable and edible, as children and their families found out with Viv Hampshire.

It's not often that children get the chance to cook and eat the weeds and wild plants that they find growing in their own gardens or local park. So when we heard that a Wild Food family learning project was starting up in our area, we couldn't resist inviting a group of children, parents and grandparents along to Barra Hall Children's Centre in Hayes, Middlesex one Saturday morning in March to find out what the project was all about.

Based at the Colne Valley Park Visitor Centre in nearby Denham, the Wild Food project is visiting local settings and teaching children and their families about some of the many edible plants they can find growing wild - plants, like nettles, that many of us would regard as weeds, but which have a higher mineral, iron and vitamin content than many shop-bought vegetables. And, of course, they have the added advantage of being free.

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