In the already geeky world of kit geekery, I must confess to some uber-geekery. I’m a knife geek. But no ordinary knife geek. I’m a fungi knife geek…

This is a super-common plant of wood edges and hedgerows, with a long history of medicinal use. The leaves can be used as a pot-herb in spring and summer but their flavour is unremarkable. The part that commands my attention is the root, which has a distinct flavour of cloves…

This amazing little seaweed packs an extraordinary flavour that you really have to taste to believe. I’ve fed it fresh to food lovers who reacted with such amazement, delight and determination to have more, that I expect they are now to be found living in coastal caves as ragged pepper dulse junky hermits…

This is the most striking and delicious of all our UK berries in my opinion – once you get over their nose-scrunching acidity! They are exceptionally good for you, being rammed with antioxidants and vitamin C. They are mostly found coastally, but are starting to be introduced – or introducing themselves – to more inland locations…

Three of the finest liquids known to man go into this cocktail. Two of them are about the most labour-intensive liquids in the forager’s repertoire, so its quite an investment of precious resources…