Wild food and Herbal Medicine - How to Survive in January

I am writing this blog to inspire you to go outside and learn about the deep fulfillment you get from harvesting and eating wild food 

Wild food only disappears for around 1/2 months a year, we are so lucky to have the earth look after us, I'm not saying it's easy, in the depths of winter there is almost nothing to eat, the stores of food dwindling from the harvest and processing of Autumn time are normally over in Dec / Jan time. From here on in it's very hard to thrive, even for the most avid survivalist. I hear mice stew is on the menu a lot! If you don't eat meat, death could be on the horizon...

So here is a list of Jan wild foods and medicines, and I will be doing an all inclusive list for every month this year, so keep your eyes peeled for them, I am also working on a calendar for all the wild foods, medicines and trees that are edible.

So here we go
Roots

• Burdock
• Dandelion
• Horseradish
• Dock
• Nettle

Teas / Medicine 

• Pine needles
• Holly
• Ivy
• Birch twigs

Mushrooms / Medicine

• Turkey Tail
• Birch Polypore

Edible Mushrooms

• Scarlet Elf Cap 
• Oyster
• Winter Chanterelles
• Jelly Ear

Wild Plants

• Ground Elder
• Cleavers
• Chickweed
• 3 Cornered leeks
• Sow Thistle
• Nettle
• Sea Beet - Coast
• Garlic Mustard
• Hairy bittercress
• Sorrel
• Alexanders
• Black Mustard
• Primrose
• Navel wort
• Yarrow
• Chervil
• Plantain
• Ivy Leaved Toadflax
• Hogweed

Barks Food / medicine

• Pine - Inner
• Ash bark