by Ellie | Apr 30, 2021 | Foraging Fancies, Foraging Fridays
So it’s dandelion season!!! Wait say you she has the title set as frogspawn jelly!! Ha ha!! Well when you work with children who like to gross out their parents…. well you bet inventive!! We went picking dandelions We then made dandelion jelly Ingredients...
by Ellie | Feb 5, 2021 | Foraging Fancies, Foraging Fridays
Starting to peek through in our wild expanse of land are a few nettles. This belies how many we actually have here on an annual basis…. in fact since we bought the smallholding we have been battling brambles and nettles. We leave large patches of both in various...
by Ellie | Jan 29, 2021 | Foraging Fancies, Foraging Fridays
So on all our walks this past few weeks I have hunted, as much as you can on a walk with two small mud and water obsessed children, for Hairy Bittercress! I have yet to find it…. In the fields, in the woods, or in the banks…. Navelwort or pennywort in...
by Ellie | Jan 22, 2021 | Foraging Fancies, Foraging Fridays
This week we are looking at two more plants that can be foraged in January! Nettles Nettles, the perennial pain in my ….. When we moved here to the holding the majority of the land around the holding was swamped by brambles and nettles. Gradually I have fought...
by Ellie | Jan 15, 2021 | Foraging Fancies, Foraging Fridays
The start of a collection of posts about what can be foraged at the moment! So its January, and you think that there’s nothing out there…. WRONG!!! There might not be the summer or autumnal abundances but there are still a few things if you look hard...
by Ellie | Jan 9, 2021 | Foraging Fancies
We have been on a number of collecting walks recently! Collecting acorns, conkers, fruits, nuts, hips, haws…. sticks, twigs…. We have spotted things…. Tracked things…. And when we get home, sometimes we paint or draw things And sometimes we...
