stones in the light
Parkhouse stone circle – we have visited this circle so many times, having lived closeby for 12 years, that it always feels very welcoming and familiar 
the circle
the large recumbent
At the farming museum we saw a Rhode Island Red mum with Silkie chicks (she had sat on the eggs):
mother and babies
silkie chick
another
The dandelion pancakes have been written up here, chive variant below:
chive pancakes
Drying some nettles for tea this morning, having worked out that it’s a bit ridiculous how we buy nettle tea (lovely as it is) when we are surrounded by them! Will finish them off in the dehydrator later.
nettles drying in sun
having said that no exotic planting experimentation would take place… well…
melon in the front porch
flowering rather later this year but so beautifully:
cherry blossom
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Those chics are beautiful and adorable! With Nettle tea is it literally a case of just drying them and adding hot water when needed?
yes
made some fresh today with a sprig of nettle and a sprig of mint in the pot (both undried)… gorgeous 
I may pick some from the moors when I go up tonight. Its really annoying, a perfect garden is wasted on us, no weeds grow – at all! Yet I want them to lol! I’ve always done things backwards.
Home dried herbs just taste completely different and I love that when I pour boiling water over my home dried plants/herbs/weeds they end up looking freshly picked and so beautiful in the bottom of the cup. I never get that with ones I have bought.
Have you tried nettle and blackcurrant leaf tea?
gathering plants from the moors sounds nice though
no, I didn’t know you could use blackcurrant leaves – they are all heavily laden with developing fruit just now. must try that!
The leaves are good for coughs and gum disease…although they taste aromatic as well and make a tannin rich tea. They are a ‘tonic’ tea just like nettles.
My blackcurrant bushes aren’t quite big enough yet for me to pinch leaves off of.
If you have lots of brambles nearby use the young leaves too…a tonic but also good for any diarrhoea and nice mixed with young raspberry leaves.
There is so much to use in the garden and hedgerows at the moment I dont have enough hours in the day to gather it all!!
yes, we have loads of these things, love hearing all this info – the abundance of nature!
This is certainly the time of year for abundance! The plants are going mad!
There are just so many things which grow in our gardens which are useful as medicines, vegetables or just a refreshing tea and it is so easy to overlook them…but the poor weeds and plants just aren’t safe in my garden! I have an evening of harvesting planned
raspberry & bramble leaf, cleavers, beech leaves, nettle, dandelion, lady’s mantle and hawthorn leaf…phew!
eating wild foods is so good for you too
LOVE the blackcurrant leaf tea 
ooh, I have a recipe for nettle and blackcurrant leaf cordial in a book somewhere. I’ll dig it out. I imagine it would be wonderfully refreshing with some sparkling water. Can’t face drinking hot tea on a day like this!
sounds very interesting. I once made elderflower cordial but it went mouldy after a few days despite my trip to the chemist to obtain citric acid too
This is weird! I always check your blog, but now I find there are three posts I’ve missed…
I’m so envious of your and Cat’s confidence with wild food. I must try these. I KNOW I can recognise them all!
Great photos as always and I love those (mostly) standing stones. Is the atmosphere there special, or not so you’d notice?
Your crops are looking good. I wonder if we WILL get a good summer. They’re forecasting one, but as they were so wrong with last summer and winter, ah hae ma doots!
I think that is the key to gaining confidence with wild food…start with the ones that you can definitely identify and progress from there. We have it instilled in us from such a young age not to eat wild things, and to an extent rightly so as there are many which are genuinely poisonous, but this wariness continues into adulthood…it’s such a shame. There is such a wealth of food and medicine surrounding us in nature, both in cities and the countryside, that it just does not make sense to pass it by. Start with nettles and dandelion and build your confidence from there…
yes we must have a good summer!
the circles do all have a noticeable atmosphere, each one slightly different.
good luck with your wild food forays