Invisible Food Walk

This month we’ll be looking for weeds that cope well with the cold, such as chickweed and cleavers…
The Get Walking south London crew is teaming up with Invisible Food for walk to discover local grown edible herbs and plants! After the walk we will exchange recipes and have a pic nic.

We’ ll walk in any weather so come prepared for the rain and cold. If it your first time, please do give Ceri a call on 07963 446605 to have more of a chat about what’s going to happen. Feedback people give after is often that they’d like more info about what to expect. So give her a call!

Back at the community centre, we’ll eat a diverse indoor picnic so bring some interesting things to share.

Start time
11.45am at Loughborough Centre, corner of Barrington Road and Angell Road, SW9 7TP We’ll leave around 12pm

Please bring some extra food to share for the indoor picnic.

Children must be accompanied by an adult

We’ll walk around 1 mile and the route is wheelchair and pushchair accessible

Call Giulia at 07920050713 or mail giulia.mininni@ramblers.org.uk for further info

In October we harvested apples and pears on the estate and made plantain cream for rashes and stings. We also had a delicious Sri Lankan curry made by one of the walk participants.

In September we explored the properties of the elderberry as a remedy for coughs, colds and sore throats and making a cold-fighting cordial. We also collected wild rocket seeds, guerrilla gardened some of them and learned how to store the rest.

In August, we collected blackberries from Ruskin Park and added them to a few mulberries from Loughborough Park and sat in Myatts Field for hours while we waited for the jam to reach setting point on a wood burner. Great picnic!

In July, we walked from the Loughborough Estate, Brixton, SW9 to the Lambeth Country Show in Brockwell Park, SW2 where we created startling dishes of wild flowers we’d found on the way and ate mallow and hazelnut cake and rosepetal jam.

In June we had elderflower flower fritters, chickweed pesto (the chickweed is still doing well, due to a colder, damp spell. It does tend to die back over summer months) We had the hawthorn flower syrup which we prepared in May (some people drank it neat, some people dipped their fritters in it!)

Ramya is our resident playworker who interacts with the kids and is an extra pair of hands to look out for the children’s safety and enhance their enjoyment of the whole event. Children very very welcome but must be accompanied.

Also bring tupperwares or bags for collecting things in!

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