nother beautiful plant that is abundant this time of the year is nettles. A barefoot gardener’s nightmare, nettles are well known for their horrible sting that can dampen your outdoors adventures. That is, however, where the dangers of the nettle plant end. Nettles are fantastic plants for your health. Caution is needed though- it isContinueContinue reading “Nettle- Urtica dioica”
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Forager’s Spruce tip soda
Continuing my spruce tip extravaganza weekend that included this lovely spruce tip hydromel, I decided to delve once again in the world of home made sodas. For those of you who have not explored this yet, homemade sodas are a fantastic way to create your own tastes and aromas in the beautiful bubbliness offered byContinueContinue reading “Forager’s Spruce tip soda”
Spruce tip hydromel
Going through last year’s foraged goodies I came upon a bag of dehydrated spruce needles. Having already done fermented spruce tip syrup (which coincidentally turns into a delicious spruce/forest tasting liquor!) , I was wracking my brain to come up with another recipe. So I decided on a couple of things. I would experiment withContinueContinue reading “Spruce tip hydromel”
Sea Purslane- Halimione portulacoides
Going over the website during these cold months, getting rid of the old, correcting the ones that need fixed and making space for the new, I found out that I had not made a post of a humble but delicious coastal green- sea purslane. Fleshy, salty with a kick and a certain leafy sturdiness thatContinueContinue reading “Sea Purslane- Halimione portulacoides“
Hawthorn- Crataegus monogyna
Autumn is here and you can feel it in the air, in the wet mornings, in the fallen yellow leaves becoming the mulch for the new plants to emerge from it, from the faint smell of some early and eager wood burning stoves warming their masters. With autumn comes an abundance of wild fruits andContinueContinue reading “Hawthorn- Crataegus monogyna”
(Fer)mental Greens 