Foraging Calendar UK

Spring (Mar–May)

• Wild garlic (ramsons)
• Nettles (young tops, cook first)
• Hawthorn leaves/blossom
• Elderflower
• Dandelion leaves
• Sea beet (coastal)
• Sorrel
• Cleavers

Early summer (Jun)

• Elderflower (still)
• Wild strawberries
• First cherries (escaped orchard trees)
• Young sea kale (coastal)

Summer (Jul–Aug)

• Blackberries (from late Jul)
• Raspberries
• Wild plums/damsons
• Elderberries (from Aug)
• Rosehips (starting)
• Sea beet
• Samphire (coastal, tidal marsh)

Autumn (Sep–Nov)

• Blackberries (peak)
• Elderberries
• Rosehips
• Sloes (blackthorn — sloe gin)
• Crab apples
• Sweet chestnuts
• Hazelnuts/cobnuts
• Hawthorn berries
• Field mushrooms/ceps (ID risk — don’t self-ID without expertise)

Winter (Dec–Feb)

• Mostly bare
• Rosehips/sloes (frost-sweetened, if lingering)
• Hardy greens: chickweed, winter cress (if mild)