Traditionally people have undertaken cleanses as a good clear-out at various times of the year, the change of seasons bring an opportunity to take stock and re-evaluate. Over the past few years a cleanse has Read more…
Time for a Spring clean with your garden weeds
Foraging for Fresh Spring Greens This time of the year brings with it fresh, verdant, lush foods to forage, a time to stuff our meals with greens. Vibrant new herb growth and leafy veg offer Read more…
How to Growing Oats for Medicine
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…
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…
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…
Hearty Hawthorn
Hawthorn berries hang out side by side with rosehips in our native hedgerows in the Autumn months, our most abundant season. It is time to harvest, preserve and store the berries in their various guises Read more…
