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Miscanthus grass fronds with small cross sections of cow parsley (Anthriscus sylvestris) stem, bound with multi coloured wool 🙂

Stuck for nature-based things to do in miserable grey January?  Get out on a dry day with some secateurs and a bag and harvest some dried stems, fallen bark, seedheads…then back at base have a play glueing them to a piece of hardboard or canvas to create textural worlds of winter sensuality….try contrasting opposites such…

A finished (nearly!) pine needle basket made using short (4-5in) pine needles from several different species of trees..fiddly but fun, and very satisfying, and all you have had to pay for is a washer and some string!  I have dyed some of the needles with turmeric (the yellow ones) and used reddish needles and ivory…

Look about you at nature, in the gorgeous hues of fire of Autumn’s transition.  So we’ve picked the rosehips and the sweet chestnuts and made soup and nourishing biscuits against the impending chill.  What now? This is the season craftspeople and hunter gatherers of old would have been out busily harvesting not just food but…

I AM NETTLE. The Blood, the Iron, The Hearth; Woman , man; Heart-beat, quiver and quim, Stretch and knot, Massage and hot. I give pulse to things long dead Fence past my forms so cruel And there are things to savour; Tongues of flavour Long distance memories of raves and crazy I AM NETTLE I…

The scene…a golden afternoon in June, at a local muddy pond.  The character, a thin ragged yet energetic female leaps off her bike with Midas like glee and pushes down a thickening trail of turquoise-green leaf spears taller than her plaited head, broad soled battered brown sandals squelching and sinking into the mire.  After a…

Have been photographing mycological mysteries whilst legging it about after my son (and preventing him eating said mysteries).   In order to identify a mushroom, these factors can mean the difference between life and death… Some of these are: Measurements – cap diameter straight across the fullest part, entire height of mushroom. Smell – fruity…

Having just returned from my, ahem, research trip to Crete, where i sampled many of the local delicacies, which included semi-feral food garnered from the neatly planted beds and borders of the posh resort where we stayed.  Though the resort staff disagreed with my plan to harvest honey from a bees nest in a carob…

Sorrel – (lemony flavour) add to a cocktail skewer of hard boiled egg, and olives. Use as you would lemon! Plaintain – add seeds to biscuits, stir fries, bread Reedmace- Dig up the rhizome in autumn –winter, roast, good source of carbs. Ash – seeds, peel then pickle when green Fairy Ring Champignon mushroom –…

Hedgewitch Adventures @ Linford Lakes Nature Reserve Autumn Wildfood Cookery 2016 Menu: Wild Seed Damper Bread with Nettle Pesto Comfrey Fritters Roasted Reedmace Roots Clay & Leaf Baked Trout with Wild Horseradish, Crabapple and Honey Clay Baked Hazelnut & Crabapple Stuffed Squash Hogweed Pannacotta with Wild Berries Damper Bread: 300g self raising flour 75g butter…