Yardening
I recently read a piece in the newspaper which revealed something that gardeners and little kids already know. Scientific research now confirms that playing in the dirt is good for you. Research presented at the American Society of Microbiology on the natural soil bacterium called Mycobacterium vaccae shows that it has anti-depressant properties. When people inhale or ingest it as they work or ...

Rich pickings: foragers' recipes
How to find the ingredients for, and cook five simple and delicious forager's dishes including bramble mousse and chestnut macaroons Nettle soup Stinging nettle (Urtica dioica) Description: Upright perennial, to 1.5 metres. Leaves heart-shaped, opposite on stem, serrated edge, covered in stinging hairs. Stems tough and fibrous, also with stinging hairs Habitat: Woods, waste ground, hedgerow ...