In last week’s vlog, the kids have been home sick for weeks, and I’ve hardly slept. But the sun finally came out, giving us some gorgeous, golden days. Which meant forest walks, sourdough bread baking, catching up on garden work, and finally doing something with those dried Heather plants hanging in my studio since summer.
If you remember from a previous post, I harvested Heather (ljung) a little too early, and rather than just tossing them back in the forest, I felt that they wanted me to try and honor their lives. A little research led me to the possibility of making a brush, or hand broom, with the dried branches. So you will see the beginning of that experimentation in the video above. I obviously have more to learn! But it has been a lovely process.
I swear just working with the heather and breathing in their scent helped clear my head and my cold! All of the gunk that was stuck in my head began to clear away. Walks in the forest probably didn’t hurt either.
While out in the forest, we actually saw quite a bit of Nettle Seeds still left, still good and green. So if you want to make your own Nettle Seed salt as in the video, go them them while they’re here! Because during long Swedish winters, we only regret the things we did NOT pick and preserve earlier in the year.
In this post, I shared the recipe for a simple Nettle Seed salt, as well as a few other recipe blends if you want to make a more special salt blend with Nettle seeds and other foraged ingredients.
There are a few other projects going on here that I’m excited to share about soon. Please subscribe to the Wyld youtube channel if you want to see more vlog and video content!! We need a lot more subscribers before youtube will allow us to really get that going. And I promise to get more comfortable in front of the camera – not a natural place for me, but hoping it gets easier with time and practice?
Take good care! xx
