Foraging for food and art materials is an integral part of my mental wellbeing practice – I have only been doing it for a few years, but already it has become so important to me. When out and about I love being able to identify plants, and learn about their properties and how they can (or cannot) be used!
Read on below to find out more about my foraging adventures – and the recipes I make from my foraged goodies!
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Celebrating Imbolc | Sunshine Tarts
This year, we decided to celebrate Imbolc by making what the girls call “sunshine tarts” – pretty much they are lemon curd tarts, but I…
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Making Apple Juice
In the autumn we harvested apples – so many different varieties – with our local Wildlife Watch. It was great fun learning about the different…
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Strawberry and Lavender Jam Recipe
Every year we go to the strawberry patch at Syston Farms to collect bucket loads of strawberries. And, every year, we stuff ourselves until we…
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Dandelion Cookie Recipe | Vegan
‘Tis dandelion season and that can only mean two things: Gardeners complaining about all the “weeds” cropping up in their garden and Foragers doing the…
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Wild Garlic Pesto with Fresh Pasta
It is wild garlic season here in the UK, and there is a lot of tastiness out there for the picking! I suggest you steel…
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Slow Cooker Chilli and Corn Bread
One of my favourite things in life is food. It always evokes a sense of nostalgia for me, of childhood comforts, teenage angst, university travels,…
