Looking back on the past few months it has been busy. In May we had a stall at the Farmer's market selling nettle produce extraordinaire. More of this later, watch this space. We found the punters liked our fruity pink nettle cordial and we were cleaned out of pestos and several copies of our book. We sold filo pastries and tarts and roulades all filled with exotic nettle fillings, acting convincingly as a spinach substitute. We were pleased with the reaction from customers who all seemed to know a lot about a lot. Moving on, foraging with a tv crew in Fife in June, we stumbled on a bed of watercress in fast flowing water. We were promoting eating local, I don't think the crew had expected it to be that easy finding it! To prove the point, found more last week on a 17 k charity walk up in the Pentlands. Just as the rain came down we spotted a succulent patch of it growing in a chalky stream just by one of the main reservoirs that provides the city of Edinburgh with water. Elderflower has been and gone and now we are on to beach forage and the berry season which should be good this year. Am already poised for my sea green compositions. I urge you all to have a go!

Happy Summer and try and stay out of the supermarkets!