Jennifer Barclay Books

Julia and her husband, John, have a multi award-winning business called Pembrokeshire Seaweeds Ltd in west Wales which includes the Really Wild Emporium, a wild food restaurant, and a wild soap and skincare business all of which use the seaweeds and wild herbs they forage.

Julia was the founder and organiser of the Really Wild Food & Countryside Festival, St Davids, the first wild festival in UK. In 2024 they launched the first ‘Wales – Festival of Seaweed’ to illustrate how seaweed can be used in industry as well as on a smaller scale, another first.

Julia has written about wild food in magazines including 5 years for Plantlife – the wild plant conservation charity. She has worked on various films/TV programmes that required historic/wild food, including Lorna Doone (BBC film), and two series of a Welsh Herbal with Prof. David Bellamy.

She has been foraging for well over forty years and running educational foraging courses on the seashore and along the coast where she has lived for more than twenty years. She runs over 60 Seashore Foraging Courses and Coastal Hedgerow Forages each year, as well as arranging private courses, talking to schools and engaging with WIs and other groups.

She has featured on television programmes such as Countryfile, Coastal Lives, Coast & Country, Extreme Wales with Richard Parks and The One Show.

She is currently working on a book to be published by Bloomsbury Wildlife.