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Immersive experiences focussed on finding & eating uncultivated & local foods.

24/10/2026

Last month in Fish Hoek - fabulous wild food in abundance.

23/10/2026

Durban - spice up summer! Jazz up celebratory meals this season with free and fabulous things. Join me somewhere on the coast - from Assagay, to Durban North and Glenwood, eMdloti and Salt Rock - I am sure I will see you somewhere. Tag a friend who loves food!

Book with me on 083 473 3074

22/10/2026

I received three huge iKhowe mushrooms (Termitomyces umkowaani) from a neighbour this week. What a treat. Of course, some were fried in butter within 15 minutes of picking for the yummiest breakfast ever.

I also pickled pieces with homemade apple c***r vinegar, local garlic, feral pink pepper corns and wild rosemary.

What would you do if you found one?

18/10/2026

DURBAN!

I am coming to serve a little extra wildness at The Gorgeous Green House in Durban North next month. Jane Troughton's beautiful eco-home will be known to many, but for those who have not visited before, she will do a little tour of the house and garden after lunch. See video link in comments.

This will be memorable - all the pickles, feral leaves, African ingredients, love and colour you expect from my lunches in glorious, tropical home.

Space is limited, so let me know asap to set you a place.

14/10/2026

Honeysuckle season is in full bloom. Gathered some flowers to make cordial for my Wild Durban Events in a few weeks time.

Does honeysuckle even grow on the coast?

08/10/2026

Beans and Greens - one of my favourite dishes.

06/10/2026

"Nikki!! Omg you are such a tonic! Thank you for such an incredible creative eco-lunch! A feast - all vegan and wildly foraged from beautiful Nature." SUZY

04/10/2026

"I'd rather spend my time decolonizing with those that want to build a new world, than debating with those who want to preserve the old. This was a wildly delicious gathering. I have found new soil soul sisters." NOMALANGA

Wild Spring Lunch in Rondebosch, Cape Town

Wild cordials: fig leaf, fleabane, black locust, elderflower.
Nettle seed crackers, w**d pesto with invasive pink peppercorns, drained amasi with fynbos salt and kelp, African black eyed bean hummus with beetroot and spekboom.
Wild pickles: spekboom, yacon, sow thistle buds, magnolia petals, bracken fronds, mallow seed pods, red onion, purslane stem.

Spanakopita filled with new zealand spinach, fleabane, carrot tops, mint, parsley and pelagonium.

Feral leaf and flower salad -
Leaves: wild lettuce, dandelion, swinecress, slender celery, shepherd's purse, clover, mulberry, oxalis, gallant soldier.
Flowers: hibiscus, nasturtium, clover, marigold, carpobrotus, dianthus.

Red sorghum with celery, pecans, yacon and apple - dressed with homemade apple c***r vinegar; njimo/ izindlubu/jugo bean with wild greens (mallow and sow thistle) and amaranth seed; asparagus with almonds; garden carrots roasted with elderflower cordial, finished with elderflower vinegar and fresh elderflowers.

Dessert: garden banana ice cream, chocolate brownie, caramel, mulberry coulis and mulberry leaf.

"Amazing idea. Amazing people. Amazing food. Inspiring and educational." JAISHREE

02/10/2026

In the food forest created in the backyard of , of course we were going to eat the leaves on the trees - mulberry, grape, fig and tea tree. Wild new flavours! Heat and drought (and general chaos) will make it harder and harder to grow greens, so I think perennial vegetables are the way to go. No digging, no germinating, no fuss - just enjoy the miracle of shade under the tree that delivers lunch.

A feral flat green space (aka lawn) also provides an abundance of unexpected food. We found swinecress, clover, oxalis, chickw**d, dandelion, hairy wild lettuce - and on the edges khakibos, sow thistle, nettle, new zealand spinach and gallant soldier. Sponataneous vegetables packed with all the goodness needed to feed your gut micro-biome and keep you healthy.

30/09/2026

I was honoured to be invited by South African Urban Food and Farming Trust (SAUFFT) to spend the morning with their farmers foraging for free, nutrient dense food amongst the more commonly grown chard and cabbages.

Just as I expected, everyone has heaps of knowledge to share, I was by no means the imifino expert in the group.

We stopped at the very famous (for me) Abalimi Bezekhaya garden on the way to Siyazama Community Garden in Khayelitsha. Here I learned about many indigenous medicinal plants from the participants (many with Khoi ancestry) while pointing out the w**ds that they should eat rather than pulling out and discarding.

We found fabulous nettles, purslane, white man's footprints, imbilikicane and even chickw**d despite the relentless heat.

"We ate greens for breakfast" was the amused refrain as I harvested leaves for everyone to taste. Yay!

The group is considering having a wild greens cook off in their communities soon. Oooh, I might need to come back... Their fresh off the press collaborative book uKutya will be a best seller, I have no doubt.

Thank you Nomalanga Linda Ruiters for being the best organizer ever.

"Thank you so much Nikki for a heartwarming day.
You left the farmers so inspired and motivated to share the knowledge." NOMALANGA

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