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Foraging for a taste of the past

Follow tips from a professional forager to recreate delicious 18th-century recipes from plants growing wild in parks and on urban wasteland.

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The healing power of the physic garden

Having experienced the healing power of plants and gardens, Iona Glen goes in search of present-day “physic gardens” and their origins in history.

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Soil health and dairy farming in the UK

Although healthy soil means more nutritious dairy products, modern intensive farming methods pollute and degrade the environment. However, a regenerative agriculture movement is kicking back against mainstream industrial farming.

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  • A grass (Panicum species): seed head and stalk. Watercolour.
  • Barnyard millet (Echinochloa frumentacea): seedheads and leafy stem. Watercolour.
  • Meadow foxtail grass (Alopecurus pratensis): seedhead, leafy stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1805.
  • Rye (Secale species): plant stems with seedheads. Watercolour.
  • Trefoil (Lotus gracilis): entire flowering and fruiting plant with separate floral segments. Coloured etching after J. Schütz, c.1802.
  • Crested dog's-tail grass (Cynosurus cristatus): seedhead and leafy stem. Coloured etching, c. 1805.
  • Hard fescue grass (Festuca duriuscula): seedhead and leafy stem. Coloured etching, c. 1805.
  • Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.): fruiting stem with separate flower and seed. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.
  • Yellow melilot (Melilotus officinalis): entire flowering plant. Coloured etching by C. Pierre, c. 1865, after P. Naudin.
  • Common meadow grass (Poa pratensis): seedhead and leafy stems. Coloured etching, c. 1805.
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