Sloe Gin Foraging
October 11, 2011 by Emily Dodd 
The small, bitter, wild fruit of the blackthorn (Prunus spinosa) or sloe is sought after in autumn for it’s gin flavour enhancing properties. We mounted bikes and used the Forager's Friend map to see if we could find a sloe in Leith:
Listen to Foraging for Sloes on Audioboo
The Forager's Friend is a collaborative map of edible and useful wild plants with links to information, photographs and recipes all added and shared by users. The Forager's Friend team say:
Foraging is lots of fun - we hope this mix of technology and the outdoors will help people all over to enjoy and appreciate their natural environment.
The Forager's Friend project was started by Rob Kyle (Rob the Forager) and put together by a group of friends. Rob is also part of the team behind Abundance Edinburgh, they collect surplus fruit grown in the city and put it to good use.
The Abundance Edinburgh project was recently awarded a City of Edinburgh Council Waste Action Grant to buy fruit picking equipment, we’ll be interviewing them soon to find out how they’re cutting waste in Edinburgh for our Zero Waste Podcast series.
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Biodiversity, Cycling, Food, Natures Calendar, Parks And Green Spaces, Podcast Abundance edinburgh, Cycling, Forager's Friend, Foraging, Rob Kyle, Sloe, fruit, gin, innertube map, zero waste 
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