Spring! A time of much joy and gladness. We have made it through the winter and can now feel the sap rising in all living beings. It is a time to nourish and replenish ourselves, shake of our old winter coat and treat our new skin with love and tenderness.
There are many ways and tools in which to extract the healing powers from plants.
One of these ways is to make infusions which are really easy and nourishing and will help to put Wild Plants into you diet. Full of vitamins and minerals and better than any expensive superfood and free!
Daily use of infusions will help heal your body from the inside out- building a healthy foundation, strength to bones, hair, teeth, organs, adrenal glands and cardiovascular system. Continue reading “Wild Infusions”
Spring breathes new fresh life into my body and the world around me. It is so welcome after this long dark winter.
I have felt the dreariness of grey and rain in my marrow, I have missed the usual frost and bright skies that just didn’t appear this year, I feel a little cheated that I have hardly crunched my way outside to marvel at frost covered leaves and icy breath.
I have been curling up in the dark like a cat and lighting fires in the hearth. I took this winter as with all winters as a chance to be able to really reflect on my life and my body and to try and find the space in which to let go of my old patterns and have the courage to go into Spring a slightly different woman. Continue reading “Awakening of Spring”
Once we have tasted this wildness, we begin to hunger for a food long denied us, and the more we eat of it the more we will awaken. – Stephen Harrod Buhner
Eating wild plants speaks to the ancient and feral part of me that knows sitting in an office or watching endless soul sucking soaps, shopping in supermarkets or joining the rat race day in day out is not quite how life was meant to be.
Brigit 