Darina Allen: Three recipes to make the best of autumn foraging
"I love to make a foragers' salad or a silky foragers' soup from a mixture of wild leaves, flowers and herbs like wild thyme."
At present, driving through the countryside, particularly in the west of Ireland is like meandering through the Garden of Eden.
The roadsides are ablaze with fuchsia, orange montbretia, purple loose strife and willow herb, lots of cream fluffy meadowsweet, knapweed, bright yellow ragwort, wild carrot and swords of wild sorrel and beautiful, lush watercress in the streams.
