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🗓️ 18 June 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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The Perthshire scientist hopes the wheel will encourage people to rediscover some of the lost tastes and uses of our wild plants.
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0:30.7 | This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland. |
0:40.3 | Hello and thanks for choosing to listen to this. I'm Rachel Stewart. |
0:44.3 | Now have you ever struggled to describe the flavour of something? |
0:48.3 | Well Marian Bruce has faced that very challenge. |
0:52.3 | She owns a small farm in Perthshire, which she manages for the |
0:56.0 | benefit of nature. And she also has her own botanical drinks company called Highland Boundary, Wild |
1:02.7 | Distillery. Now, she's passionate about using wild flavours in her products, and she's come up |
1:09.7 | with a clever way of describing what they taste like |
1:13.3 | by categorising them in a wild flavour wheel. Eager to find out more, I joined her on her farm |
1:20.9 | near Elith. The distillery came out of lots of different bits of information. It was absolutely |
1:26.8 | kind of a rewilding project from the start. |
1:29.0 | But when we started putting things back, we realised that if we were careful, if we were |
1:34.1 | conscious of the way that we harvested and only took a little bit from lots of lots of plants, |
1:39.6 | that actually we could create products that were absolutely of the landscape. So flavours that are in the landscape. |
1:46.5 | And the first product that we released was a birch spirit. |
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