by Ellie | Sep 8, 2023 | Foraging Fancies, Foraging Fridays
So we like to preserve Nature’s bounty in lots of ways round here. We can, we jam, we bottle and brew, but one thing we love doing is making balms. This does everything balm harnesses the properties of Lavender, Plantain, Calendula and Rosemary. It smells and...
by Ellie | Sep 1, 2023 | Foraging Fancies, Foraging Fridays
Here is the recipe that I am using this year for Hedgerow syrup. We use it as a vitamin boost when ill in hot drinks, on porridge, in yoghurt in fact there are lots of ways to use it. Ingredients: rosehips blackberries elderberries 1 clove honey Now some people may...
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 19, 2021 | Foraging Fridays
Can you smell it? Yes even with the freezing conditions last week the smell on the air had changed and spring is most definitely coming! Longer days, warmer days…. Apparently distracted by the snow and ice last week I forgot to post a foraging Friday. I...
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...
