Spring
Dandelion guide: where to find, how to pick and recipe ideas
It's dandelion time! Rachel Lambert, foraging tutor and author of Wild & Sweet, is your guide to how to forage for dandelions in Britain, including where they can be found, nutritional benefits and recipe ideas
Gingerbread Easter bunnies
Children will love baking these easy gingerbread bunnies as a treat for Easter – perfect with a cuppa for adults too!
Wild garlic pesto
Turn your foraged finds into a delicious, vibrant pesto to enjoy this spring. Here is our easy recipe for wild garlic pesto which can be added to pasta or soups.
Late spring salad
New potatoes, eggs and asparagus… is there a holier trinity? Chef and food writer Gill Meller reveals one of the tastiest ways to combine these ingredients with his spring salad.
Wild garlic bread sticks
This simple bread recipe, infused with foraged wild garlic, is a great option for family camping, says chef and food writer Gill Meller
Nettle tea
Nettle tea has many benefits; it can help fight infections, reduce pain and swelling, and lower blood pressure. It even tastes great. Learn how to make nettle tea with this easy campfire recipe by chef and food writer Gill Meller.
Spinach baked with clotted cream and eggs
Combine eggs, spinach and clotted cream to create a delicious vegetarian supper – and don't forget the crusty bread.
Wild garlic, potato and chorizo tortilla
An earthy and easy wild garlic, potato and chorizo tortilla recipe – perfect for a light lunch
Grilled new-potato salad
Fresh, flavoursome and seasonal, this easy potato salad is the perfect dish for a sunny, spring day.
Easy pancakes
Celebrate Pancake Day with this easy batter recipe, with some of our favourite sweet and savoury fillings.
British asparagus and chive tart
British asparagus spears are hand-harvested in spring – celebrate the start of the growing season with this perfect tart.
Winter Caesar salad
Make this delicious winter Caesar salad, packed full of nutritious bitter leaves, by chef Tom Hunt from his cookbook, Eating for Pleasure, People & Planet.
Nettle spanakopita
Liven up nettles with lemon zest in this refreshing and indulgent Greek pie.
Broad bean, potato and radish salad
This fresh, green salad has all the tastes of spring - crunchy greens and radishes, sweet broad beans and new potatoes
Dead nettle and wild garlic butter
This easy recipe can be enjoyed during the height of spring, or frozen and enjoyed later in the year.
Rhubarb and cleaver spring reviver
Combining cleavers and rhubarb creates a seasonal drink that is both refreshing and healthy.
Chicken leg, blue cheese and nettle pie
Make a warming spring pie from freshly foraged nettles
Borage leaf, pea and garden mint soup
Enjoy this delicious, seasonal late-spring soup with a recipe from Kathy Bishop and Tom Crowford on their Somerset smallholding
Nettle soup
Delicious, nutritious and readily available – nettles make an excellent supplement to your diet when supplies are running low
Wild garlic, nettle and dandelion tart
This springtime tart – brought to you by Kathy Bishop and Tom Crowford from their Somerset smallholding – is made from foraged ingredients, including wild garlic, nettle and dandelion