Oats – Avena sativa We absolutely love oats. We love to start our morning off with porridge in the winter months and make home mixed museli or granola toasted in the oven. As the weather starts to warm, Read more…
The Budding Spring Magic – Gemmotherapy
Come the spring the promise of new life is palpable and a walk in the local surrounds shows us that on closer inspection of the trees and bushes, tiny buds are emerging. These buds are Read more…
Springtime Herbalism with Dandelion
“There is no nobler plant than the dandelion.” – Barbara Drake Boehm, New York Metropolitan Museum of Art Dandelion. Resilient. Strong. Mighty. Humble. She grows all over the world, in the cracks of forgotten sidewalks, Read more…
Connecting with Herbs over the Dark Winter Months
The Winter Solstice The winter solstice is when the earth’s tilt is at the maximum point away from the sun and marks the shortest day and longest night of the year. It is traditionally called Read more…
The Spicy Root Ginger and some Marvellous Medicine
Roots are generally high in polysaccharides (long chain sugars which act as energy for the plant) giving them sweetness, and nutty nourishment; great medicine. One of our most commonly found roots (although we usually have Read more…
Hot Spiced Apple Juice & Dandelion
The winter is upon us and each glimmer of colour and light, that we are granted in the skies above, is a total gift. The days are getting shorter and darker as the count down Read more…
The Season of the Pumpkin
Halloween /Samhain is coming up and it is falling upon a Fullmoon Lunar vibration this year. We love this wonderfully connective festival of honouring our dead and the cycles of life. Halloween /Samhain celebrations mark a very Read more…
Sweet Chestnuts
We were up in the woods yesterday in glorious sunshine foraging for autumnal goodies! What joy this abundant and fruitful time of the year always brings – having children with us was brilliant too as Read more…
Reishi – Mushroom of Immortality
It is mushroom season which is an extremely exciting time for us Seed Sistas we love the Fungal world and are especially interested in all the medical ones that fill our forests. Here Mycologist and Read more…
Birch Polypore
Seed Sista Karen waxes lyrical about her love affair with the eyes of the underworld…the mycelium medicinal wonderment autumnal wanderers, the mushrooms… It is Mushroom season, the woods are full of exciting delights….. My mother Read more…
