We have started foraging again for wild foods, and are building up our supplies of wild greens that we are drying out ready to get us through the winter. Previously I spent a fortune on green powders that I have to say gave me great health, but the kick we get out of our own wild foraged ones is far higher it really is. It is probably down to the fact that we have collected them, but energetically they just feel better for us. Yesterday we collected dandelion leaves, blackberry leaves, and goose grass, all to dry off, although I tend to eat a few in a salad as its too good an opportunity to miss.
The green powder we make has a real mix of all the wild greens we collect in various amounts, depending on what we want it to do to our body, so some figure much more in the mix than others. I like to have dandelions as they support my kidneys, but I have also taken to lemon balm just lately as well.
We do dry lemon balm out but we also have it fresh in tea, put some in a cafetiere, with hot water and let it steep for a while, I have this daily now. It is absolutely lovely, has been a doddle to grow, in fact it is so prolific that we continually are having to cut it back. We have taken cuttings from it so we can take it to grow on the allotment as well, which are also doing really well.
It has a lovely light lemony taste to it, and feels quite calming, has lovely medicinal properties including being antibacterial, so I have been having a little bit each day. In a salad of sprouted beans and seeds it adds a really nice summery taste, with flax dressing, doesn’t get any better than that really! All home grown, well except the flax oil!
Tags: allotment, flax oil, Lemon Balm, sprouted beans
