Pickle and Brew

05/03/2026

Fermenting the magnolia blooms 🌸

03/03/2026

It’s time to infuse your water with cleavers 🌱

02/03/2026

Reasons to be cheerful ☀️

Magnolia is blooming
Flowering currant is back
Wild garlic is abundant
Young nettle medicine picking

Blue skies and sunshine ahhhhh at last!!! might need to take my tank top off - it’s flipping magic ☀️🌱🥰

Coming up if you fancy joining me for a foraging wander, wild food inspired tasty food and learning ways to preserve spring edibles and medicinals 💚

March Events -

20/3 - Spring wellbeing workshop at the Focal Centre, Huddersfield
21/3 - Wild Food Wisdom - Yorkshire Coastal Foraging
28/3 - Wild Garlic Workshop with wood fired pizzas
29/3 - Wild Food Wisdom - Awakening Spring Wander - Leicestershire

Busy bees - let’s go 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️ links for them all in the bio x

28/02/2026

There are many ways we are reminded of treasured people.

The ones that touched your heart, real characters that lit up a room.

My mother in law was an incredible woman, never afraid to speak her truth, fiercely loyal, loving and descended from ancestors who stood up for what they believed in.

I’ve enjoyed many a wee swally or two with her and umpteen plates of her homemade broth & lentil soup. I hope you’re not looking down on my version thinking what the eck you put in that !!

Felt really comforting to make this 🧡

26/02/2026

24/02/2026

Lion’s mane fungi filling my omelette with some healing magic ⭐️🍄

Slow mornings, herbal brews and time with Linus to set me up for the day.

Not in a rush for anything just yet……this pace is really unusual for me, but so needed 🌱

I was pondering making some medicine with the giant ball of healing fungi but it ended up in the frying pan with lots of butter & was so delicious. I got all the healing I needed 🧡

20/02/2026

Whirlwind few days gathering & prepping 🌱🧡

last night was so cold, massive thanks to everyone that braved the weather and said hello. So grateful for all your interest 🧡

Today was a wild early spring plant workshop covering wild garlic from leaves to buds to flowers and seeds, three cornered leek, ground ivy, ground elder, garlic mustard, chickweed, cleavers, vetch, nettles and dandelions 🌱🌼

Tasty morsels of wild garlic pesto pinwheels, wild garlic veggie sausage rolls and a foragers ketchup!!!

A great turnout and such great enthusiasm, made my day 💚

Next at is the 19th March and I’m back at the Focal Centre on the 20th March - Natural remedies and seasons wellbeing 🌱

Have a fab weekend xx