To learn the skills she needed to deliver the workshops, she attended short courses in a variety of crafts including willow weaving. “I fell in love with it,” she says. “The course was run ...

Our project for the day was a flower basket ... And then we were off weaving long willow wands into the sticks, occasionally bashing then down. I couldn't believe how quickly Jo had let us loose ...

"Collaborative weaving germinated in my mind," she says. That led to a new material for her – willow – and that led to England, where the tradition of weaving willow into baskets is ancient.

Mark Williams is the owner of Wild Food Galloway, and is passionate about sharing the knowledge of our native edible species. Rachel met with him on the coast to forage for some local plants, and to ...