Gotta stop reading and just take action!

This is the point I've got to with my herbal studies. I've been reading and reading and dabbling a little here and there, but have realised I just need to *do* it now.

Over the past 6mths I've been doing a little wild crafting, but haven't done much with it.

So, just in the past few days....

I've eaten wild foods with my lunch both days. I steamed up some chickweed, young dandelion greens (yay for getting to know this one intimately last spring so I could ID it immediately without flowers and from the many other look-alikes) along with some kale from my garden (even found some dandelions in my medicinal garden that will now be tended and looked after!). I then served it up on top of a baked potato with baked beans over the top.

That evening I then brewed up a pot of chamomile tea using the flowers I had gathered over summer.

Today, I made an omelette and cooked in some cleavers, chickweed and dandelion greens.

I also made up a pot of red clover infusion that I was able to have a couple of mugs of (I had been stuck on not owning a 1L (quart) canning jar but saw someone on a youtube using a coffee plunger, which worked out very well for pressing all the liquid from the flowers at the end too!). I only made a half batch to begin with which gave me 2 mugs worth.

So while I'm not really able to observe how each of the herbs will affect me due to not using them individually, it does feel good to just start including them in my daily routines until it becomes a bit more ordinary to do so.