Darina Allen: Foraging is a valuable skill — here are three recipes to try with wild ingredients

This tart incorporates many of my favourite wild foods from early spring with the first of the spring onions of the season.

Foraging, building resilience. I certainly hope my greatest fears are not realised, but with the way events in the Middle East are shaping up, I continue to urge everyone to build up resilience and work on enhancing practical life skills — sounds like doomsday stuff but if we look on the positive side, it can be a delicious and fun adventure too.

Yesterday, I went for another wander through the fields and along the wild hedgerows to do a bit of foraging. The May bush or hawthorn is still in bloom: A profusion of white flowers and still tender leaves. Bet you didn’t know that you can scatter them into your green salad — turns out that they are hugely beneficial for our cardiovascular system.