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Wildfowling - Not Strictly foraging

Fi Bird | Posted 24.11.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Guga, Fulmar, South Uist, Pate, Greylag Geese, Wild Food, Gannet, UK Lifestyle News
Fi Bird

A few weeks ago, BBC Radio Scotland's Kitchen Cafe broadcasted a programme on the 'guga' or young gannet. It told the story of the fowlers of Ness, on the Isle of Lewis who voyage annually to the remote Isle of Sula Sgeir to hunt the guga.

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Brambling in the Outer Hebrides

Fi Bird | Posted 11.11.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Hebrides, South Uist, Foraging, Bramble and Lemon Curd, UK Food, Recipes, UK Lifestyle, Scotland, Food, Scottish Islands, Bramble and Lemon Curd Recipe, UK Lifestyle News
Fi Bird

all is not doom and gloom for the discerning Hebridean foodie. It really is a question of eating local, even if the larder is limited and using the bounty of the natural larder of Scotland. This larder is by its very nature, seasonal but those with a tendency to plan and prepare can perfect the aged skills of preserving, drying and the more contemporary advancement, freezing.

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