The Journal
A collection of posts on gardening, folk herbalism, seasonal living and nature connection.
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,...
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