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Martin Hesp
Martin Hesp
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About the delights of foraging wild garlic, a flavourful herb thriving in England's South West. This short article explores its culinary uses, from homemade pesto to sauces, highlighting renowned chef Mark Hix's insights. You must distinguish safe wild garlic from toxic lookalikes like Lilly of the Valley, ensuring a safe foraging experience.
Bob Bell recalls moving to the deep West Somerset countryside many many years ago
Martin Hesp considers the region he lives in - the West Country which is so very popular with millions of visitors in normal years - and he mulls over the idea of visiting the big green peninsula which stretches South West of Bristol
The Lemon Tree Forest is a novel set partly in Greece and partly in West Somerset’s Brendon Hills. Here writer Martin Hesp reproduces a single chapter after hearing about the death of a rather lonely middle-aged man on the other side of the hills.
In this Exmoor Lockdown Diary Martin Hesp recalls living at a local manor house for a decade-and-a-half
In this Exmoor Lockdown Diary Martin revisits the subject of wild garlic after so many people contacted him
