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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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…
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Pine Needle Basket – pics!
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…
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The Briar Basket: Creating A Friend out of an Enemy.
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…
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Blood, Iron & Fire!
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…