How to forage, roast and grow a sweet chestnut. Make sure you are picking sweet chestnuts (Castanea sativa) and not horse chestnuts (conkers). Always check with the landowner if foraging on their land #foraging #roastedchestnuts #sweetchestnuts | Simon Akeroyd Garden Writer

Comment RECIPE if you’d like a link to my sweet chestnut foraging guide and all of the recipes in this video! 🥰 🌰 There are SO many sweet chestnuts this year! Well, there’s so many everything this year! It’s a mast year, which is an incredible phenomenon where fruit and nut bearing trees literally communicate via the mycelial network to produce enough nuts and seeds to overwhelm the squirrel population and birth future trees instead of just food! 😍🌲 Did I explain that well enough?! 😅 maybe