Delicious foraged salad filled with herbal delights – The glorious activity of Foraging is seeing a revival and many many people are enjoying finding, gathering and harvesting their local wild foods, reconnecting with the natural Read more…
White Dead Nettle
White Dead Nettle (Lamium alba) – from the Greek ‘laimos’ meaning ‘throat’, referring to the shape of the flower. This jolly and super prolific herb is part of the Mint, or Lamiaceae botanical family which Read more…
Harvesting Herbs for medicine – Teas & Decoctions
Harvesting Herbs for medicine – creating Dried Simple Herbal Teas Check list – Choose a plant you are 100% sure of and can positivity ID – Look for healthy, vibrant plants growing away from sprayed Read more…
Kitchen Remedies – Elderflower, Mint and Lemon Cordial
What You’ll need: Elderflower heads (a pan full) Water to cover Fresh mint leaves (handful) Juice and zest of 3 lemons Sugar (use your preferred kind) 1.Pick a load of elderflower heads, just as the Read more…
Molluscum contagiosum
Lots of parents get in touch regularly about Molluscum Contagiosum, which is a common viral infection a member of the poxvirus family, like small pox. It looks horrific but in truth isn’t anything to get Read more…
The Hawthorn Tree
Hawthorn Blossom The old English for Hawthorn was Haggathorn meaning hedge or encompassing fence thorn. Hawthorn has been utilised as a boundary marker by many farmers and country folk alike all over the globe, since Read more…
Herbal Tincture Making
Creating herbal remedies There are various ways to store herbs once you have gone out and harvested them – it is lovely to have fresh herbal infusions but fresh herbs are seasonal thus preparing them Read more…
Ethical Chocolate
We first met the lovely Deya at WOMAD festival, after we had just given a talk in the World of Words tent on connecting with herbs. Her open bright spirit instantly attracted us and we Read more…
Hawthorn Blossom, Orange & Cinnamon Cordial
The wonderful veritable courage-giving heartwarming hawthorn blossoms are out… We love to make kitchen remedies, everyday foods as medicines that we can enjoy with our families and friend, get beneficial goodness, compounds and energetic boosts Read more…
Harvesting herbal remedies for women from our medicinal forest garden by Anne Stobart, MCPP
Us Seed SistAs met at Middlesex University where we were studying a 4 year BSc degree in phytotherapy. On the first year in the first term of that degree we had a module called History Read more…
