I spent a few days with dear friends, gathering plants for dyeing and making herbal tea and infusions, walking in meadows and crossing streams, picking fruit and making jam all the while cooking delicious grilled veggie dishes.
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| little snail-pal, enjoying the moss after rain |
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| we stumbled upon this beautiful little stream |
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| crossing the makeshift "bridge" the wide flower-filled meadow opened up before us |
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| meadow sage /salvia pratensis/ |
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| goldenrod /solidago canadensis/ |
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| we tied up the bounty into bunches, then hung them up to dry |
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| walnut leaves, St John's Wort, goldenrods, elderberries, yarrow |
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| bunches drying in the early morning sunshine |
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| fruit harvest: pears, plums, elderberries and apricots, topped off with a little lavender |
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| we made jams in 3 flavours: cinnamon & chocolate plum, lavender infused apricot, and elderberry-pear and then dressed up the jars with hand-painted labels, rustic string and mini paper doilies |
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