I've been slowly building up small stores of wild preserved food over the last year to use through the winter - I'm going to try next year to have about 10% of my food be wild or gardened (I'm moving to a place with a garden!!)! This is a very small target for some people, but we start somewhere :)

This is a delicious meal that I made with sauce from Hawthorn berries. I haven't used them before and was excited to find a new way to preserve vitamin c for throughout the winter. It was delicious! As I was making it, I noticed it tasted a lot like hoisin sauce, so I decided to fry up some oyster mushrooms with the sauce and make a sort of faux vegan hoisin duck pancake with cucumber and spring onions and chilli oil (in this case with gluten free wraps so my husband can eat it too). It was so good!! I'm definitely going to invest a lot of time in harvesting more hawthorn berries next autumn.

Authentic Irish Foods for Lughnasadh

🫐 Berries in Season

Bilberries

Blackberries

Hawthorn berries

Wild Strawberries

🌾 Wheats Grown by Iron Age Irish

Naked Wheat

Emmer

Spelt

Barely

🐟 Fish in Season

Brown Trout

Sea Trout

Atlantic Salmon

🌿Native Culinary Plants growing in Ireland at this time of year

Chickweed

Wild Thyme

Wild Asparagus

Watercress

Red Clover

Sea Beet

Sea Kale

🐂 A ritualistic sacrifice of a bull and then eating of that bull is described as a part of festival events - it is possible that excessive bulls would be culled at this time

Hawthorn Berry Juice / 红果捞 (Vegan)

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26th November 2023: A scene with autumn leaves on the grass out the front and lovely scenes of wet flowers at home and shiny rose hips, hawthorn berries adorned with water droplets and an autumnal view on a walk at Cadman's Pool in the New Forest.

At Cadman's Pool it was also lovely to see vibrant Redwings flying around, Robin, Meadow Pipit, gorse in flower and get intimate views of New Forest ponies again this weekend with a nice young one for the latter with Blackbird, Chaffinches, Blue Tit and a fly seen too. It was great to take in moody scenes including tall trees, in the orange wood and the heath with a few mushrooms seen too on the walk. A fly at home this evening, snapdragons out the back and the gushing call of Starlings with them seen as well, Woodpigeon and very nice views of Magpies including close above me on the roof as I looked out the window first thing were other highlights at home today.

autumn foraging guide by @/growforagecookferment

Mollala River State Park, Oregon, 9-17-22

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We don't have a lot of hawthorns around me in md, but we have some good ones (and a lot of tasteless one) in oh!

literally all we need is plants and life

Frosty haws on my Dad's hawthorne tree <3

(c) riverwindphotography, December 2023

Боярышник мягковатый (лат. Crataegus submollis) — дерево, вид рода Боярышник (Crataegus) семейства Розовые (Rosaceae).

Hawthorn (lat. Crataegus submollis) is a tree, a species of the genus Crataegus of the Rosaceae family.

Berries for winter birds

Bing Tanghulu Candied Hawthorn Stick / 冰糖葫蘆 (Vegan)

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10th September 2023: Martin Down

Flora and fauna photos taken today in this set: 1. Hawthorn. 2. Devil's-bit scabious, I was captivated by swathes of this one of my favourite flowers. I'd only seen them in the New Forest before the ones I saw at Old Winchester Hill two weeks ago and it was great to see some here as it's the main caterpillar food plant of Marsh Fritillary one of the star butterflies of this site. We don't often come at this time of year so had never seen these flowers here before, it was great to see good numbers of them therefore. 3. A bright looking mossy rose gall. 4. A marvelous Meadow Brown, we got some smashing views of this enduring butterfly and remarked during the walk about how the species goes on from the start of summer until the end outlasting many others, they're a welcome constant over the summer. 5. Chaffinch that I heard calling well too. 6. Buttercups. 7. Some quite late lady's bedstraw which I made the most of. 8. Common toadflax another of my favourites. 9. Bee on bramble flower with blackberries and hawthorns nearby. 10. Black-eyed Susan in the emerging sun this evening when home.

Perfect for Wildflower Hour on Twitter's seed head theme tonight I liked zooming in on many flower seed heads on the walk including wild carrot, yarrow, hogweed, knapweed, creeping thistle, ragwort, marjoram and old man's beard. It did feel a bit like summer winding down when out and it was overcast here with the brown fields around, a place we normally visit when brimming with insects at the height of spring into summer (there were still a fair few about today of course), and a lot of the flowers had gone over (again, there were many still about though) but it was good to appreciate that they can still be beautiful after they flower. I saw the flowers of some of these too and centaury, eyebright, wild basil, dark mullein, pineappleweed, field/small scabious, hemp agrimony, pretty honeysuckle, ivy including some covered in bees which was nice to see, speedwell, self-heal and some poppies in the famous adjoining poppy field were other highlights. Rose hips, sloes, elder and privet berries were other fruit highlights. Small Copper again, Common Blue, Speckled Wood, Small White, Small Heath and a splendid fresh looking Peacock were other good butterflies to see. Veneer moth, Southern Hawker, horse fly, hornet, possible wasp, Long hoverfly, possibly the rare Large Marsh Grasshopper and spiders were other highlights. It was brilliant to see two Redstarts, what an autumn I'm having for seeing them at different places. Kestrel in the air, Magpie, vocal Woodpigeons, Blackcap, Whitethroat, Stonechat, Swallow, Skylark, Linnets, loads of colourful Goldfinches which was great to see and Great Tit were other standout birds. It was good to see bee in the garden on the Black-eyed Susan, Goldfinches out the front and Collared Doves out the back and fly before bed last night at home, with an epic Buzzard view on the way back from Martin Down.