'Local Health for Local People!'
[submitted for edition 3 of the Kilfinan Forest Community Newsletter in the Spring of 2021] Last week, there was a chap bemoaning someone bringing food into the area from out of town. What with the hungry gap soon to be over, the birch sap rising & food appearing to appear again on the wild margins; now is a good time for making a return to eating local. Foraging, it's fair to be say, saw a resurgence in the noughties amongst the middle classes. Traditionally, gathering was