Tag: foraging
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Wild Garlic Mayonnaise
As we reach mid-April here in the UK, wild garlic is in full form (at least it is where I live in the South UK!) and there’s an abundance of it to gather right now. Wild garlic is best picked before the flowers bloom, as the leaves can become slightly bitter after this point. In…
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Green Goddess Salad Dressing
If you’re starting to think about bringing in more greens or salads as we move further into Spring, it’s important to bring in more healthy fats too. Steaming your greens, adding healthy fats & plenty of herbs & spices makes them much easier to digest – if you every get bloated after a lot of…
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Nourishing Nettle & Honey Latte
Here in the UK, the arrival of Spring mean’s it’s Nettle season! With hedgerows, woodland and clearings covered in the spiky leaves. They may seem prickly when you first meet them, be if you dive a little deeper, you’ll come to learn that on the inside, nettles have SO much goodness to give. Nettles are high…
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Rosehip Sip
If you’re a confident forager, now is the perfect time to collect rosehips for delicious & medicinal recipes! Rosehips are very high in vitamin C, which is essential for immune health, adrenal health, for synthesising collagen and improving adrenal health. Before citrus fruits were imported to the UK, rosehips would have been one of our…
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New Recipe: Wild Plum & Apricot Jam + Seasonal Summer Stone Fruits To Eat Right Now
Seasonal foods give us the exact nutrients we need at the exact right time. In Spring, bitter greens & digestion boosting herbs help us naturally cleanse & detoxify when it is most needed; Summer veg & berries are high in skin-protecting antioxidants. Now we’re moving into Late Summer, which Traditional Chinese Medicine considers a season…
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Sweet Fennel Spring Smoothie Recipe
There are pros and cons when it comes to smoothies. In some cases they can cause bloating, and if you’re adding lots of fruit and sweeteners, you could be consuming way more sugar than with a regular meal. The really GOOD part of this smoothie however, is that it’s low sugar & packed with seasonal…
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Wild Garlic Mustard Mayo
There really is such an abundance along the hedgerows at this time of year! Wild garlic, nettle, cleavers, dandelion, purple dead nettle, ground elder, wood sorrel, primrose, and so much more. What might look simply like a mass of weeds and plants is totally transformed when you begin to recognise these edible and medicinal herbs…
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Pickled Wild Garlic & Dandelion
A super easy springtime recipe to help you reconnect to nature! Once you’re able to identify plants like wild garlic, nettles, primrose, dandelion and purple dead nettle (amongst many others!) the Springtime landscape truly transforms. Our ancestors would’ve known the edible plants around them, where they grew, and the best time to pick them. Now,…
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Courgette, Nettle & Wild Garlic Soup
A super simple, super green, seasonal, local and totally healthy soup. You’re probably walking past some of these plants every day, so have a go at foraging this week (as long as you know what you can safely pick!) and whip up this quick and easy soup with ingredients that are naturally local to you.…
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East Meets West Springtime Tea
One of my favourite things about working with ancient Ayurveda and modern wellness, is that when you combine the best of both, magic starts to happen. This simple tea recipe combines locally picked herbs native to the UK, with Ayurvedic staples like cinnamon, cardamom and fennel seed. Just as with Ayurveda and holistic health, there’s…
