FROME resident Nick Moyle, along with co-writer Richard Hood, has penned a new book ‘Wild Tea’ in which they discover the incredible uses of 40 home-grown and foraged ingredients and guide you through their original brew-it-yourself recipes.
Published by Welbeck, Wild Tea presents easy to-follow recipes that teach readers how to collect naturally sourced ingredients – including berries, roots, seeds, leaves and flowers – for brewing their own blends and special infusions, from classic night-time and detox teas, to chai latte and Moroccan mint to specialist Korean barley tea, bubble tea and even dandelion coffee.
“It’s very much a book that is ‘made in Frome’,” explains Nick, “with many of the featured ingredients such as elderflower, meadowsweet, lime flower, nettle and blackberry foraged in the local area.
“And with spring upon us, now is the ideal time to start looking for wild tea ingredients in fields and hedgerows or planning what to grow in your own garden.”
Whether you are a gardener, cook or crafter, Wild Tea is the perfect guide to allow you to take your health and wellness into your own garden and create specialised brews at home.
There is also a ‘best of the rest’ section with more unique ingredients that can be used for drinks, such as ginger, cinnamon, red clover, orange and even carrot.
Nick Moyle and Richard Hood are founders of the award-winning website twothirstygardeners.co.uk, which chronicles their adventures turning what they grow and forage into drinks.
The authors of the craft-beer book Brew It Yourself, sold in ten languages, they write for UK magazines and journals, have appeared on national TV (The Alan Titchmarsh Show) and are regulars on the events circuit.
Wild Tea is available at Hunting Raven book shop in Cheap Street.
