Category: Foraging
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Changing tack
Hi everyone. You’re probably used to me changing things around on this website and I’m at it again! I’ve been thinking a lot of late about the wealth of knowledge and experience that we have here and that it makes me a bit sad that more people aren’t accessing it. As you know, we’re not…
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We’ve more herbs than your average herb book!
135 entries for: 38 garden herbs, 38 wild herbs, 5 so far unsorted, and 40 Bushfoods! 17 Wild Fungi and 6 Seaweeds! All local, all easily grown or foragable and all written about from personal experience! Can you ask for better than that?
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Introduction to kitchen herbalism workshop
There’s still some tickets available for the Intro to Kitchen Herbalism extravaganza at the Hills Environment Centre on Sat, December 6. Come along and learn a whole lot about converting those wonderful plants in your garden into effective remedies for you, your family, and your community. We’ll cover everything from harvesting to infusios and oils…
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It’s the best time for Mallows!
Our local Mallow isn’t the Marshmallow of Northern hemisphere herbalists but is rather the Small Flowered Mallow, Malva parviflora. It does have its appeals, though and, as with many of the Malvaceae, it has a good level of nutrition plus a soothing mucilage that is present in all parts of the plant. Try some for…
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Resting and preparing for more. A recent update
Having a coffee at Coffee on Jacob, I’m telling friends that im still resting after last week’s successful herb infused oils workshop at Fulham Community Centre. It was exciting too because I went really high tech (for me, that is) and ran the presentation via a data projector from my phone! The participants and myself …