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Forage Sloes For Cakes, Juice, Gin And Vodka Next Time You Go Camping

There’s a wonderful berry you can find in abundance in the hedges at campsites, along coastal paths and further in land. It’s from the Blackthorn bush, which landowners and farmers use to keep cattle stock in their fields helped by the strong thorns it has along its branches. The best thing about it being so [...]

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Thom Hunt Seventh Rise Top Fishing Tips For Beginners When Camping

Top Fishing Tips For Beginners When Camping: Thom Hunt, Seventh Rise

Thom Hunt, one of the Three Hungry Boys, has recently opened his own business Seventh Rise in Cornwall offering a mixture of courses giving expertise about fishing, hunting, foraging and wild food cooking. It’s based at The Lost Cottage HQ on the banks of the River Fal. We caught up with Thom to ask him about [...]

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Campsite forage, elderflower, cool camping activities

Campsite Forage: Elderflower Cordial, Champagne & Fritters

The Elder is one of our favourite wild shrubs as it has loads of flavoursome flowers and berries to give us free wild food, cordial and booze by the bucket load. It also flowers when summer has arrived, signalling the start of many hot and happy camping days ahead, and is the shrub that first [...]

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How to fund a nomadic lifestyle

The Campsite Forage: Dandelion Wine

Dandelion wine is one of our favourite wines to make and definitely one of the best for the campsite, hedgerow or field forage. Mainly because it tastes so good but also because a good dandelion picking day has to be warm and sunny and it’s usually accompanied with a bottle of last years wine and [...]

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Martin Dorey Camper Van Cookbook at Inspired Camping

The Camper Van Cookbook

  We’re very excited to announce that soon we’ll be interviewing Martin Dorey, BBC Presenter of One Man And His Camper Van and Author of  The Camper Van Cookbook: Life on 4 Wheels, Cooking on 2 Rings about his new book The Camper Van Coast: Cooking, Eating, Living the Life. Not only is he a [...]

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