Kathryn Clover (aka Hedgewitch Kat) aims to reconnect humans to the land and nature. We are all part of the great miracle. Strength, resilience, compassion and creativity lead to a better world.
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Gypsy elixir… Nettle seed
Even the country folk of us, who enjoy a nettle tea or soup, often don’t realise that common Nettle (Urtica dioica/urens) SEEDS are a nutritious and tasty meal. Ths female seeds are chock full of essential fatty acids, protein, Vitamin C and energy rich oil. You can taste this when you eat them, it is…
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Mycelial Meanderings with Phil McAustin
With a flourish of Phil’s pocket magnifying lens, a suckered tentacle stares back at me, an iridescent grey white. It looks like it should be coiling around a shipwreck, not oozing out of a fallen beech near National Trust Ashridge Monument. I’m here with Phil McAustin, mycologist and wood specialist, on a thankfully sunny Wednesday…
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Squirrel Stew
Today myself and my young son found a freshly dead squirrel that had been shot in Linslade Woods. The eyes were still bright and clear, it was still flexible, and it didn’t smell. I chose to risk it and brought it home, where after some You Tube instruction I skinned it by cutting under the…
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Wayfarer herbs for June
Almost thought I had to go to the supermarket to get veg today, until I nabbed these beauties on the way back from the lake swim. Not that the kid will eat them..I will still have to go to Tesco to get cucumber (sigh)…. Clockwise : Tansy (for bug repellent, hanging it up in…
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Cool Womb, Fathoms Deep
A morning dip in the local lake …. Cool womb, Dark mirror. What lies beneath That satin skin? Bright foil As ducks come down, Reeds, Submerged branches Waiting like a petrified forest For divers. Thrill of fear Fathoms deep; Of mouths with teeth. Brim with life, with death. I cut you, I caress you From…
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Update on Cleavers And Carrot Ferment
Tasted great after 6 days, tangy and delicious in a turmeric and prawn root soup with soya yoghurt… Only surprise was the sadly deceased ladybird I found once I was halfway through the jar. And the hair!! Sorry! Apparently fermented guillemot birds were buried under mud and considered a wedding feast delicacy in Iceland however,…
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Spring Tonics in the Ouzel Valley
Today I harvested handfuls of fresh juicy Cleavers, bursting with vitamins welcome after winter’s salted runner beans. I decided on making Cleavers & Carrot Lacto-Ferment, the cleavers worked well last year with a phenomenal taste…I will return with the results. Cow Parsley (Anthriscus Sylvestris) and Hemlock (Conium maculatum) are also out side by side,…
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In blackest night….
Winter’s bite…. In blackest night grows the seed of Life Blue frost in our pleading veins we sink deep… Beneath snows, and wish for light to come again; but needful is this rest, this still; like death to life is needful the black earth womb to the seed of light. Winter’s bite; Reality, sometimes grim…
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scandi heart with miscanthus
Miscanthus grass fronds with small cross sections of cow parsley (Anthriscus sylvestris) stem, bound with multi coloured wool 🙂
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Winter Nature Collage
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…