Dark Horse Traditions

01/02/2022

Recently I took myself off on a wee micro adventure out west and found my furry friend Mullein in full bloom.

Verbascum thapsus - greater mullein is a native to Europe and a fuzzy w**d naturalising itself around the world. It’s seeds have been found fossilised in parts of England. Here in Australia it spreads itself in cooler, temperate climates and is flowering in our hot summer.

With many recorded uses from Pliny to Culpepper to Grieves, Mullein is a multilayered medicinal plant with all parts of the plant useful.

So lovely finding these beauties and collecting a leaves. I hope to use them for an oil and might burn some smoke for lung health, just the medicine for these times.

Best wishes and health to all 🌿🔥

04/01/2022

Windy wild start to 2022! Cyclones, Covid and Clouds!
Happy New Year to all
and may the light shine ever onwards and upwards.
We got this.
Just breathe.
🌨🌨🌨

11/09/2021

🌿 Today’s lunch was inspired and bought to me (to you) by the wild earth….🙏

SALAD
Foraged:
Watercress
Dock
Slender Celery
Bush Lemon
Homegrown:
Okinawan Spinach
Spring Onion
Snow Peas
Handmade:
Kimchi

TEA
Foraged:
Slender Leaf Plantain
Shepherd’s Purse
White Clover
Homegrown:
Jasmine flower
Rosemary
Mugwort

DESERT
Foraged:
Wild Raspberry
Nightshade Berries

Happy Saturday, spring, happy wild medicine, food, tea and life! Yum! 🥗





**ds

20/07/2021

🌸 Wild Peach blossom time! 🌸

The cold south-west winds and sunshine of our Australian winter,
herald the awakening of these wild peace blossoms!

Enjoying their beauty, fragility and burst of colour around the place.

30/05/2021

The lovely Slender Celery - is awakening after its summer die back. Such a little beauty in the garden with the fresh tufts great in salad, good to munch and add to soups etc.

Cyclospermum leptophyllum - known commonly as Marsh Parsley or Slender Celery is found in tropical countries and has been used medicinally in India and Africa and was described in 1889 as a useful wild plant in Australia by Joseph Maiden.

Happy Sunday and happy foraging folks.

🍀

13/05/2021

Dandelions really are the best
✨
Happy New Moon and may your heart burst into a thousand seeds of happiness and be carried on the winds to take root in new places...

🌿🦉🤲🌬🌻



**ds

14/04/2021

Tulsi. Muse. Life Force.
Healer. Protector.
Abundant. Ancestral.
Thriving. Attractor.
Transformer.

🌱

Please share any other words you feel resonate with this beautiful plant....

08/04/2021

Hoping you find a moment of joy today amongst the flowers.

🪴🌸🌺🌷

04/04/2021

🌿🌨🌞

I have always believed that the very best of life is what’s wild and free ❤️

16/02/2021

Elder and the sunset...✨🌞
With Mugwort cameo 🌿