How to Make Herbal Waters & Iced Herbal Teas
A cornerstone recipe of summer is cool or iced herbal teas. This is simply a herbal tea that has been cooled down in the fridge and then had some ice added. Easy. This follows the same technique as brewing herbal infusions (I have a whole podcast episode dedicated to...
How to Make Sun Tea
The days around summer solstice can also be a wonderful time to gather and harvest herbs for herbal preparations. Certain herbs like lemon balm, mint, rose, sun like calendula, St John’s wort and elderflower should be looking at their best right now and are perfect...
Creating a Summer Nature Table-Nature Kids Series
While I do enjoy crafting with my children I find the best things are from nature and together we gather natural items found on our daily walks to decorate our cottage with and also to add to our seasonal nature table. A nature table is just what sounds like, a small...
Honey cake Recipe
Despite the warming days I still love to bake in summer, and my seasonal cake recipe for this month is a summer honey cake-a celebration of the busy bees, the golden hues and the sweetest of the month. Honey Cake Recipe 300g gf self rasing flour 3 eggs 100g dark...
Picture Books to Celebrate Summer-Nature Kids Series
A lot of you will already know that I am completely addicted to books. Especially kids’ books and nature books. It’s a huge weakness of mine. Every season I treasure the experience of hunting down beautiful books on the upcoming season. I love to find picture books...
How to Grow Sensational Spring Onions
With summer now underway I am making sure I am successional sowing my favourite edible crops and that includes the delicious and versatile spring onion. The Spring onions is often overlooked despite being a fantastic vegetable for the garden. Taking up minimal space,...
Things to See in Nature in June
Apart from the deliciously long days, there’s lots to enjoy outdoors this month, so for those of you who enjoy nature spotting or journaling here are a few things to look out for; Bats-baby bats are usually born in June, Mothers will be busy hunting for food to help...
Ode to June-seasonal rituals & musings
June is the first month of summer, here in the Northern Hemisphere. The last remnants of spring hang on-the fresh green grass and new leaves, the hawthorn blossom which is now turning pink and beginning to fall and the carpet of daisies. But with the summer...
Flower Rituals-Making Blossom Essences
May has its celebrations of course, the month started off with May day and Beltane on the 1st. This are both celebrations focused around the fertility of the month. To celebrate this theme I love to enjoy the generous blossom throughout the month. Not only do I enjoy...
Nature Connection-Dawn Chorus
In today’s post I am sharing a nature connection idea as part of the mini series that I began at the start of spring on the Nature & Nourish podcast. Last month we did an April Shower’s challenge and in March we looked at noting the sunrise and sunset. Each month...
Hi I’m Becky! I’m a family herbalist, gardener and mama living on our sustainable farm in Northern Ireland. I came across the concept of slow living and living in tune with nature when I was diagnosed with hashimotos and realised I needed to reconnect back to nature and learn how to nourish myself from within. Since then I have studied herbalism and natural skincare and garden with a focus on edibles. You can catch me monthly on BBC Radio 2 & I’m currently writing my first book to be published in 2022.
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