Tales of a Kitchen Herbwife

After summer’s heat, the change in both daylight hours and temperature comes as an unwelcome shock. This year’s abundant harvest brings an a...

  My favourite place to forage in autumn is amongst the hedgerows. Whilst horse chestnuts and some of the elders are already losing leaves, ...

With the modern emphasis on reducing amounts of simple carbohydrates we ingest, it may seem strange to think about the production of su...

Rose has been with me all through the year, from the sun-kissed days of winter to the rain and gales of summer and beyond. She has brou...

The Indian summer of September and October has finally disappeared. Clocks going back to Greenwich Mean Time seemed to herald a return of no...

At the last meeting of the Mercian Herb Group I took along a bottle of my newly made blackberry, apple and rosehip syrup. Those who tried it...