Foraging for Hazel Catkins | UK Wild Edibles

Can you eat Hazel Catkins? This week I teach you how to identify and use hazel catkins as a nutritious wild edible and medicinal plant.

More information on the uses of Hazel:

Medieval Hazel leaf stew:

#foraging #wildfood #spring

Some useful plant identification books:

Edible and Medicinal Wild Plants of Britain and Ireland - Robin Harford

Food For Free - Richard Mabey

The Forager's Calendar - John Wright

Some amazing foraging channels:

Wild Food UK

Coastal Foraging With Craig Evans

Vincent Petit (Amazing videos)

Totally Wild UK - Excellent regular content

[wsbczqo]

"You can eat it raw"
*clearly doesn't enjoy it*
*goes in for seconds*
"I wouldn't recommend it"

I'm getting mixed messages here.

Have you ever talked about how you yourself got into foraging? Been loving your content after coming across your dryad saddle video, and it's been awesome watching the channel evolve. Keep it up.

[anylogwotem]

I was looking at some of these a couple of days ago and thinking 'I wonder...'
Cheers for a great video as always!😊

[adiem]

Cheers for another lovely video - hope the Corylus Avellana catkins help fend off your cold lol 😆

[garyphisher]

I'm going to learn 3 different foodstuffs per week. Getting into foraging can be overwhelming, so I'm going to cut it down into manageable chunks. My neighbour has a Hazel tree - I collect the nuts that fall onto the pavement - I wonder if they'll mind me grabbing some of these?

[thewildflowerkitchen]

Thanks for that! Can't wait to enjoy consuming a few of these golden tassels at a sparce time in the woodland (Early March).

[basil]

So much to learn all the nature given us thank you for sharing your knowledge

[wolfenstein]

Thanks for the video, mate, that recipe with the hazel leaves sounds interesting :) .

[AF-pwil]

Are young’s weeping birch catkins also edible? Loved this vid by the way

[EarlybirdEnglish]

Great video as usual! My hazelnuts in the Basque Country are still a bit behind yours

[mikealman]

Very good info and stunning scenery 👋 especially liked the end lol, liked, subbed etc 👍

[nseight]

:-) * Stumbled apon your channel. Just subscribed :-) Sending best wishes from Scotland*

[aabbushcraft]

Great video mate 👍 so good I have just subscribed 🤗

[danthelambboy]

Do you have a source of scientific info on the nutritional composition of hazel catkins?

[jokeogh]

I was going to ask if you had the recipe for the stew. 😊

[rosiedsouza]

Are the mulberry catkins also edible raw off the tree or make a tea like what you've done with the hazel catkins

[mariebassett]

How would you go about drying them? Dehydrater/oven or just hanging them? Thanks 😊

[TheMegaJobe]

Can you use the windfall catkins ? They turn into a dark rust brown colour? Can they still be used? Thank you