Foraging Recipes

Hawthorn is an essential medicine carried by almost every British herbalist. It is the protector of your most vital organ: the heart. Both flowers and berries contain Oligomeric proanthocyanadins, known to normalise heart function, strengthening heart activity without upping the heart-rate or blood-pressure. Other constituents relax the cardiac blood vessels, bringing more nutrients and oxygen to the heart muscles, helping the heart heal. It also has long traditional use for

Nicholas Culpepper said of Cleavers: ‘It is a good remedy in the spring…to cleanse the blood and strengthen the liver…fitting it for that change of season that is coming’. A spring clean herb, to help move that stagnating lymph, to clean and spruce you up for the new growing year to come. Cleavers and Wild Garlic Pesto Ingredients: ½ cup cleavers leaves (stalks are too stringy, so remove the leaves from stalks) 1½  cup wild garlic leaves ½ cup parmesan cheese (freshly grated