Foraging!

This weekend I spent the day walking round the woods and beach near Tyninghame collecting wild plants, flowers and seaweed and learning how to use them in cooking and for healing in herbal medicine.  I was taught to look a fresh at many weeds that are abundant in their healing properties and numbers.  Who knew that nettle seeds can be plucked right off the plant and eaten for a mental boost of energy, just have to be careful to avoid getting stung!  For loads of interesting recipes and foraging inspiration take a look at Wilde in the Woods website.   Connecting to our own traditional herbal knowledge gave me a sense not only of a deep history of the uses of plants but also to the infinite ways in which human are connected with and can be healed by the Earth.