by Julia | Aug 28, 2016 | Edible Weeds & Flowers, General, Healing Plants, Natural Health, Recipes, Sustainable Living
A sure sign of spring is the new nettle shoots that are growing on the perennial nettle Urtica dioica (below left) . Urtica urens (left) is the other common variety which is annual stinging nettle or dwarf nettle which I have been eating all winter. It doesn’t...
by Julia | Oct 18, 2015 | Edible Weeds & Flowers, General, Healing Plants, Natural Health, Recipes, Sustainable Living
Nipplewort – Lapsana communis You have to agree this plant has a weird name. If it could it would probably change it. There are two reasons for the name. One is that the seed capsules resemble a nipple in shape and secondly being an astringent plant it probably...
by Julia | Aug 29, 2015 | Edible Weeds & Flowers, General, Healing Plants, Recipes, Sustainable Living
Bittercress Cardamine hirsuta I love this little compact, rosette shaped annual with lobed leaves, small white flowers and upright seed pods that explode, flinging the seeds far and wide when ripe and you touch them, hence one of its names ‘shot weed or ‘flick weed’....
by Julia | Jun 13, 2015 | Edible Weeds & Flowers, General, Growing Food, Healing Plants, Natural Health, Recipes, Sustainable Living
Young plants of Herb Robert (Geranium robertianum) are flourishing all over our garden and bush edge as I write in May. A few mature plants are still flowering. This is an old medicinal plant common in Europe. The name Geranium is Greek for ‘cranesbill’ which...
by Julia | Feb 2, 2015 | Edible Weeds & Flowers, Growing Food, Healing Plants, Natural Health, Sustainable Living
Hello Everyone, I had this idea to interview someone who has taken my Edible Weed course and ask how their journey has been since the course. I invited my friend Sharon Watt to answer the following questions and found out how her views of weeds have changed, what...
by Julia | May 4, 2014 | Natural Health, Sustainable Living
What is all this new talk about earthing? Earthing or grounding is actually not new but newly revived. It is a reminder of how we were previously much more connected to the earth and of the calming, soothing effects of direct contact with the ground. The reason it is...
