https://myshetland.co.uk/not-well-again/

Pepper is ill again. *** sigh ***

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#foraging #wildFood #gardening #wildflowers

White Campion (Silene latifolia) is a common wildflower all across the Northern temperate region, easily recognisable by its vigorous prostrate habit and "bladders" or bulbous bit behind the white flower petals. Similar to "Bladder Campion", Silene vulgaris.

I've mentioned it before, as a useful wild salad plant that I've stopped removing except where in direct competition with something more valuable. It's in its more-tender rampant growth phase before flowers here now, so good time to pick it. Pics at this stage are not so common, so see below.

It's no fun to chew dutifully for its_nutrients_ like essential fatty acids but still best not cooked. This is because its protection against herbivores is primarily the "fur" on it, rather than other plants' toxins that are hard work on the liver etc. So I make green smoothies including it. It has a mild taste that disappears mixed with other flavours.

The transition of the vine, where summer's blush turns to autumn's deep ink.

Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.

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It feels as though it has been a very long, damp and dreary winter indeed, but the first cup of nettle tea in the sunshine always tastes like the arrival of spring.

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Backyard white oyster #mushrooms colony.

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#SilentSunday

#RedRockCrabs caught, in a bucket.

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Six preserving methods for apples – permaculture living non monetised

https://commons.tube/videos/watch/e06d1ae3-a8b9-479f-b0e1-55cdd991c479

Foraging and Wild Food Recipes
https://craftinvaders.co.uk/wild-food-2/wild-food/

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