Last month (October 2025) was ADHD Awareness Month. This year, the theme was “The Many Faces of ADHD” which gave me the gentle nudge I needed to start writing about my own ADHD journey. Of course, it might have been more timely if I’d finished writing this article during ADHD Awareness Month, but that’s not how ADHD tends to work in my case! However, I did write a very similar article for the research institute that I work for, which focused more on the challenges of ADHD in

Is foraging harmful to nature, or does it instead support the health of natural ecosystems? As a long-time foraging practitioner and teacher, I’ve seen one debate repeatedly emerge – what are the ecological implications of foraging for wild food? Simply put, for some the practice of humans foraging for wild foods seems fundamentally wrong – a theft from nature which takes valuable resources from the mouths of more-than-human species. Further, there are those who believe that