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Wild Edge 🌱 Your guide to nature connection! Offering wild food courses, transforming verges & gardens, & fighting food poverty. Fall in love with the hedgerow.

We're on a mission to build communities & rebuild lost biodiversity. Discover wild food & unleash your inner forager! We are a social enterprise that provides communities with wild food education, through foraging walks, cookery classes, and free food initiatives. Alongside this work, we also seek to preserve and share the knowledge of heritage crafts. A percentage of profit made from our ticketed walks and courses allows us to provide the same service, for free, to those experiencing local food poverty in our community. We believe that all people should have access to wild food education and the confidence to access nutritious, sustainable, local, fresh food. For every walk or course you purchase from The Family Foraging Kitchen – you help to provide a local Cornish family the skills to find free food forever. There is a good deal of fear and misinformation surrounding the use and consumption of wild plants, and we believe the best way to combat this is to share knowledge about how these plants can be used. Modern agricultural methods have meant that foraging, once a part of our ancestral daily life, has faded away, replaced by regular family trips to the supermarket. We are now disconnected from the food that we eat. Given the ecological, social and environmental crisis that we now face globally, humanity needs to - rather urgently and radically - examine its relationship with food and how we acquire it. Foraging is about more than just food and nourishment; it gets us out into the countryside, helps to cultivate an intimate appreciation of nature, lets us explore history, science and folklore; can bond families, strengthen communities and reestablish connections severed by modern life. Inspire younger generations to learn traditional skills and knowledge. Get truly wild in your kitchen. Take an edible journey and explore the beautiful Rame Peninsula.

06/11/2026

Residents, visitors and everyone who loves Mount Edgcumbe are being invited to help shape the future of this much-loved historic estate.

Whether you visit regularly, have fond memories of the park, or care about its heritage, wildlife and landscapes, we'd like to hear from you.

05/11/2026

🌿 MILLBROOK LAKE – WATER QUALITY UPDATE 💧

Yesterday I received a detailed response from South West Water following my enquiries into possible pollution at Millbrook Lake, and wanted to share the findings.

🔎 What’s been discovered?

Several pollution reports have been investigated since June. So far, South West Water has found no confirmed sewage pollution originating from its wastewater infrastructure.

Some suspicious material around the lake was identified as bleached seaweed rather than sewage.

⚠️ However, one important issue remains unresolved.

Investigations in September discovered sludge and grey water in surface water drains near Mill View Lane and Higher Anderton Road. Seven properties have been identified as potentially having incorrectly connected drainage.

🏡 What happens next?

South West Water has contacted those properties to arrange further investigations. Any necessary repairs will be decided once these are completed.

No additional lake water-quality sampling is currently scheduled.

🌱 And the wildlife?

Unfortunately, no ecological assessment has yet established what effect the lake’s changing conditions or increased sea lettuce growth might be having.

Through Millbrook Watch, I’ll continue monitoring, asking questions and sharing verified information as it becomes available.

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05/11/2026

Small November walk

03/11/2026

100 Garden Project – Rooted Futures CIC & The Peninsula Trust

Rooted Futures CIC and The Peninsula Trust are working together on the 100 Garden Project, an exciting community initiative aimed at bringing people together through gardening, growing, biodiversity and greener spaces across the Rame Peninsula. The ambition is to create opportunities for people to connect with nature, share skills, improve their local environment and strengthen community wellbeing. They’re asking for your input because they want the project to reflect what local people actually need, value and would like to see happen. Your ideas and feedback will help shape its future! 🌿

Please fill out this survey: https://forms.gle/YcrHqofLhZ5A7M7GA

02/11/2026

🎄 CHRISTMAS IS COMING! 🎄

You could burn yourself on a turkey crown,
Cut yourself wrapping, then drunkenly fall down.
With all the excess, your skin gets spotty,
Your feet start aching and your mood gets grotty.

The kids are screaming, the dog’s gone crackers,
You’ve eaten your weight in cheese and crackers.
The sprouts are boiling, the relatives are pi**ed,
And half of the presents are still on the list.

Don’t you wish there was something in your jacket,
That’s natural, local and doesn’t cost a packet?
Something to soothe when your skin’s feeling rough,
Or when Christmas itself has got a bit tough?

Well, Wild Edge has balms galore,
Handmade in Cornwall — and there’s plenty more!
For skin that’s dry, for a moment of calm,
There’s a little bit of Christmas in a tin of balm.

So stuff one in a stocking, give your loved ones a treat,
Or keep one for yourself when you’re dead on your feet!

🎁 Wild Edge handmade botanical balms
🌿 Local, natural and made with love.

www.wildedgeuk.com

Helps with cuts, scrapes, zits, psoriasis, eczema and all topical skin complaints!

01/11/2026

📣 The ‘Back Garden Forest’ tree giveaways will be returning this winter, with events set to take place across Cornwall.

🌳 There will be six different trees to choose from including: dogwood, hazel, crab apple, bird cherry, wayfaring tree and rowan, and all great for wildlife🦋.

ℹ️ Each tree will come with an information card, with details on the species chosen and how to care for it. The Forest for Cornwall team will also be on hand to provide advice on the best tree for your garden.

There is no need to book or reserve a tree in advance, just come along on the day to choose and collect your tree. Don’t forget to bring a bag to carry your young tree home!

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29/10/2026

🌿 A LITTLE BLAST FROM THE FORAGING PAST! 🌿🍂

Five years ago, we were filming our Virtual Foraging series here in beautiful Cornwall with The Family Foraging Kitchen, and I thought October was the perfect excuse to dig this little gem out of the archives!

🎬 Virtual Foraging – Autumn in Cornwall, Series 2, Episode 1

Watch here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RIFZGOtVlo

The film might be a few years old, but the wild edibles are still the same, the seasons are still turning, and the message is every bit as relevant today. There’s an extraordinary amount of wonderful wild food growing right under our noses if we know what to look for!

And yes, before anyone says anything, my presenting style is rather ENTHUSIASTIC. 😂

I wave my arms about, get ridiculously excited about plants and generally behave like I’ve just discovered the most extraordinary thing in the world every time I find something edible in a hedgerow.

But here’s the thing. That’s not me putting it on for the camera. That’s actually what I’m like in real life! 🤣

And that’s exactly the energy you’ll get when you come along to one of my Wild Edge foraging walks and courses!

🌿 ALL MY 2027 COURSES ARE NOW ONLINE AND BOOKABLE! 🌿

I’d absolutely love to welcome back some familiar faces who’ve joined me over the years, and equally love to welcome a whole new bunch of curious people into the foraging fold.

Expect plenty of wild food knowledge, cooking, laughter, enthusiasm and quite possibly some wildly exaggerated gesticulating!

🍂 Come and discover the wild with me!

🌐 Book your 2027 adventure at www.wildedgeuk.com

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29/10/2026

MILLBROOK WATCH | WATER QUALITY SURVEY 001

📅 29 October 2026 | 1pm
📍 Millbrook Lake, Cornwall

Today we completed our first water-quality survey using an Earthwatch FreshWater Watch testing kit purchased with our community donations!

Our sample was collected beside the wooden decking and seating area below the football club, facing Bird Island, with the dam to our left.

Conditions were sunny, dry and settled, with no flooding or rainfall. The last significant rainfall was on 23 October.

🔬 OUR FIRST RESULTS

🟢 Nitrate: 0.5 mg/L — LOW nutrient concentration.

🟠 Phosphate: 0.2 mg/L — MODERATE nutrient concentration.

According to Earthwatch’s freshwater reference chart, nitrate was relatively low while phosphate was moderately elevated.

Phosphorus can contribute to excessive aquatic plant and algal growth, making this particularly interesting given the extensive sea lettuce (Ulva) we’ve observed across Millbrook Lake.

⚠️ IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC NOTE

Millbrook Lake is tidal and brackish. Earthwatch has advised that these freshwater testing kits aren’t reliable in saline or brackish conditions.

Our results are therefore PRELIMINARY, not scientifically validated measurements of pollution or ecological health.

We’ve contacted Dr Laura Bannatyne, Earthwatch’s Freshwater Research Manager, again today for advice on whether to submit these results, test freshwater inflows instead, or use alternative equipment suitable for the lake itself.

🦆 WHY DOES THIS MATTER?

Millbrook Lake supports waterfowl, fish, eels, otters and many other species. With local concerns about pollution, sea lettuce growth and occasional sulphurous odours, we want to build a reliable, long-term picture of its ecological health.

Testing freshwater streams may help identify nutrient sources, but our ultimate goal is to understand the quality of the lake water itself.

This is our first recorded survey, and we’re learning as we go, guided by scientific advice.

Thank you to everyone who has donated to make this community research possible! 💚

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29/10/2026

From negative news, with passion and perseverance (and the generosity of community donations) wonderful things can still happen.

MILLBROOK LAKE – OUR FIRST WATER QUALITY TEST! 🌿

Despite disappointing news from all three of our funding applications, Millbrook Watch is moving forward!

Over recent weeks, we’ve contacted the Environment Agency, South West Water, Westcountry Rivers Trust, Earthwatch Europe, Tamara Landscape Partnership, Cornwall Wildlife Trust, the University of Plymouth and Surfers Against Sewage, seeking advice and support in understanding the water quality of our beautiful Millbrook Lake.

One particularly exciting development has been our connection with Earthwatch Europe, and we’ve now taken our first steps towards monitoring the lake’s water quality through their freshwater citizen science programme.

Today, our very first water sample is being tested! 🔬💧

And thanks to the incredible generosity of our community, who donated around £600, we’ve been able to start making things happen even without the grant funding we’d hoped for.

🎬 Watch the video to discover what we’ve already achieved with your donations, and some of the exciting things we’re planning over the next 12 months!

This project has always been about community, curiosity, education and celebrating the extraordinary wildlife right on our doorstep.

We’re not giving up. In fact, we’re only just getting started! 💚

Thank you to everyone who has supported Millbrook Watch so far.

Address

Rame Peninsula, SE
Torpoint
PL101BQ

Website

http://www.wildedgeuk.com/

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