4.7 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Mo Wilde is a forager, herbalist and author who is also founder of the Wild Biome Project. In this podcast, Helen Needham meets her at Cambo Estate in Fife where they go foraging and discuss the benefits of a wild food diet.
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0:36.3 | This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland. |
0:45.4 | Hello and thanks very much for choosing to listen to this. I'm Helen Needham. Many of us enjoy a bit of foraging. |
0:52.2 | It might be picking brambles or wild raspberries or perhaps even the odd mushroom. |
0:57.1 | I've certainly increased my repertoire of wild foods over the years and with great delight and satisfaction. |
1:03.7 | There's one person, though, through writing and social media posts, who's really encouraged me on this journey. |
1:10.8 | Mo Wilde is a forager, writer and herbalist |
1:13.6 | living in central Scotland. She established the Wild Biome project during lockdown where she spent a whole year living off just wild food. |
1:22.6 | She's now on her third wild biome experiment alongside 100 other people, all with the aim of |
1:30.1 | discovering the health benefits of eating wild food. Mo has recently published her second book, Free |
1:37.0 | Food, which is a detailed guide on what's edible, and importantly not edible, out and about in nature. I met up with her recently just as |
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