Edgeley Wildlife & Nature Reserve
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Scrub
A great deal of undergrowth (mainly brambles) which offers immense protection to insects, birds and mammals is situated central to the area.
Scrub, Indigenous Culture and Bioservice:
The pastime of blackberry picking (blackberrying) goes back thousands of years and is still popular. Ripe juicy blackberries have high vitamin C content and can be eaten raw or cooked. You can add them to pies, crumbles, wines, jams, jellies and vinegar. Strong ale brewed from blackberries, malt and hops was popular in the 18th and 19th centuries.
It’s been widely been used in traditional medicine for its healing and detoxifying properties and fibres from its stems have even been used to make string.
The pastime of blackberry picking (blackberrying) goes back thousands of years and is still popular. Ripe juicy blackberries have high vitamin C content and can be eaten raw or cooked. You can add them to pies, crumbles, wines, jams, jellies and vinegar. Strong ale brewed from blackberries, malt and hops was popular in the 18th and 19th centuries.
It’s been widely been used in traditional medicine for its healing and detoxifying properties and fibres from its stems have even been used to make string.
Blackberry bushes can prevent soil erosion on infertile, disturbed sites and the ancient Britons used thorny stems as a boundary or barrier in the way we use barbed wire.
Trees & Flora