Melanie Anne Salisbury

Beautiful blue thistle from a beautiful friend 💙

Meadowsweet Kefir 🌱🤍

When the Elderflower season comes to an end, Meadowsweet comes into its own wafting its sweet fragrance through riverbanks and grasslands.

This morning I used the frothy scented flowers to add to a second ferment of water kefir. With the recent humidity and my perhaps overly insulated kitchen, I am on a quick rotation at the moment getting through batches of varying flavours of kefir. I’ve used elderflower, redcurrants and ginger over the last month or so. Delicious.

With the added medicinal benefits of Meadowsweet for the gastrointestinal tract, on top of the probiotics in the ferment, we have a wonderful bottle of gut health support. Refreshing and hydrating too through the summer months.

Once you get started, it really is simple to do and a lot of fun trying new flavours 🌱☀️🫐🍋

Sunday Sun ☀️🌻☀️

Hackney Rainbows #2 🌈

Midsummer mornings #2 🌱🌻

Midsummer mornings 🌸🌼🌸

Lockdown Rainbows
Millfields Park • Clapton • 2021

Does anyone remember this evening delight on one of the hottest days as we were creeping out of yet another lockdown??

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Asparagus and nasturtium topped warm summer green salad 🌱🌼

What’s in the bowl?

🥬 Balcony homegrown cavolo nero, salad leaves, rocket and parsley

🥒 Spiralised courgette and lightly steamed asparagus supplied by growers who supply our colourful community food co-op every Thursday

🍋Topped with freshly squeezed lemon, tahini and olive oil👌

🌶️ With a punchy little side of Kimchi homemade last week also with the cabbage, garlic and ginger from the

🌼 And let’s not forget the colourful flowers harvested from our community garden

This nutrient dense bowl contains a high dose of prebiotic fibres, magnesium, iron, vitamin C, essential fatty acids, bitter foods for healthy digestion and probiotics from the fermented vegetables in the kimchi 💚

Lisboa, March 2024
Sunday evening
A colourful early Spring escape 💙

Pretty pleased with these two new reads that have come into my hands over the last week.

📙 Firstly, the wonderfully researched and considered report by Marta Lopez Cifuentes, who has been working closely with myself and others across the Tower Hamlets Food Network to gather experiences from our communities; collating data and providing much needed support to help us continue to fight for a fairer food system.

🕰️ Tomorrow she will be presenting her findings at The Teviot Centre where we will convene with local residents and our charity partners at and continue to give the community a voice; learn and share locally prepared food together.

📘Secondly the latest book by the ever inspirational Patrick Holford, whose seminar tour and book launch I attended last week. If you don’t know him, I highly recommend looking up his charity where he continues to dedicate his life to his research and support in mental health and preventative medicine.

Thank you both for all this work and commitment to making change 💚

Open Evening 👀 this week - date for your diary 🗓️

An exciting community collaboration of artists and health practitioners - starring who will be exhibiting his artwork in the freshly refurbished who will be celebrating 28 years of clinical practice on 👏

Don’t miss it. Come and join us from 5pm this Thursday 6th June. Expect local drinks and nibbles too 🎉

Summer nights and green delights ☀️🌿

Thank you to my gorgeous friends .store for this beautiful Moroccan green glazed little ceramic dish, perfect for tapas - you will have to remind me where in Morocco this was made again?
And the lovely little wooden spoon 🥄

Good morning, June 🌿🌼

Join us next Thursday 6th June from 1pm to hear Marta Lopez Cifuentes - one our research partners at - share her findings on how communities are contributing to the democratisation of food systems in East London.

Come together and have your say in the community, and of course enjoy some delicious food - we look forward to seeing you there!

Our weekly Food Co-op will still run as usual from 11-4 so you can get your fresh seasonal veg before or after the presentation 💚

📍Teviot Centre, Wyvis Street, E14 6QD

Peaceful easy pickings 🌿

🌱 Parsley
🌱 Cavolo Nero
🌱 Rocket

A Happy Bank Holiday Monday back at

A blissful swim with the fluffiest of ducklings, a cheeky fox and most importantly with 🩵🦆

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‘Movement: Moving more for our mental health’
is the theme of this year’s mental health campaign.

Stretch, Move and Breathe are three words I’ve used repeatedly in my practice over the years; to my patients, parents and friends. To raise awareness of the importance of movement seems so basic in many regards, but the sad truth is that a huge proportion of the Western world have almost forgotten how!

The last 6 weeks have tested me in my ability to move, in my patience, and all the frustration and questioning that comes along with abrupt inaction from a freak accident (yes, I was cycling again).
Without revealing the gory details, today I can say my mind is positive again. I can walk and appreciate all that my body is capable of.

Let’s support this and never take the movement of our bodies for granted.

‘Movement: Moving more for our mental health’
is the theme of this year’s mental health campaign.

Stretch, Move and Breathe are three words I’ve used repeatedly in my practice over the years; to my patients, parents and friends. To raise awareness of the importance of movement seems so basic in many regards, but the sad truth is that a huge proportion of the Western world have almost forgotten how!

The last 6 weeks have tested me in my ability to move, in my patience, and all the frustration and questioning that comes along with abrupt inaction from a freak accident (yes, I was cycling again).
Without revealing the gory details, today I can say my mind is positive again. I can walk and appreciate all that my body is capable of.

Let’s support this and never take the movement of our bodies for granted.

For the love of ♥️
Friday making 🍆
Warm sunlight shining through the window while the wild wind whistles and blows outside 🌞💨

“Home is a human right. It’s our foundation and it’s where we thrive. Yet, every day millions of people are being devastated by the housing emergency”

Shelter campaign tirelessly to fight the devastating impact the housing emergency has on people and society. By working with communities to understand the challenges they face, we strive to change the housing system from the ground up.

With just under seven weeks to go, I am back in the full swing of running the sunny tow paths of and feeling strong. Almost a year has passed since the knee-damaging cycling accident that sadly forced me to pull out of last year’s just one week before the race.

Thank you for saving this place for me for me to take two in this year’s

👉 if you would like to know more about what this fantastic charity do, follow

👉 if you are able to support me with my fundraising, please follow link in bio to my page 🔗

Thank you !!

Vibrant green freshly made from pickings 🌱🌿

A satisfying springtime haul of foraged with dear friends in Dorset last weekend. The abundance of these distinctive scarlet fungi were enough to feed five of us as part of a delectable Sunday evening feast 🍄🐿️

The smells and colours of spring are upon us at last with longer lighter days just around the corner.

Afternoon light as the clouds turned to blue on this warm

The skies did clear on this afternoon revealing in all is glory 💙

Did you know that today is ?

Too many of us have disturbed sleep patterns and inconsistencies in our daily and night time habits.

What could you do to feel more rested; to improve your energy levels and implement healthier routines?

Part of my role as a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner is to encourage patients to implement changes in sleep hygiene and nervous system balance, and indeed ensuring that any possible nutrient deficiencies that could be driving these disturbances further are rectified.

I could read and write for hours about sleep but for now I will sign out to wind down on this Friday night.

Get in touch with me if you’d like to find out how I could support you:

[email protected]

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CLIENT FEEDBACK
A reminder that our bodies do have an incredible ability to heal, and that it is possible to break out of certain mindsets and habits that hold you back.

My job is to support patients with a guided integrative approach in nutritional education and lifestyle shifts. But results like this also come from the determination and commitment from the patient themselves!

Thank you for this feedback!

Springtime spots 🌱🌿🌼🌸

in bloom on my walk to work
opening it’s flower against a gloomy sky
flowering in balcony bed

♥️

Clinic view from and all things and in a final wrap of CPD in 2023

Thank you once again and I look forward to joining the upcoming education series next month !

Better late than never… January is nearly at a close, but here is a little snippet of what I was engrossed in at the end of 2023 !

After months of negotiations and planning, alongside my partner in passion we launched our hugely successful Organic Community Food Co-op in November in partnership with , Bridging the Gap, Sustain and Food Lives.

Our expanded partnerships and research networks have enabled subsidies on all fresh seasonal organic produce as part of a year long pilot project - investing in , advocating for policy change and fighting for a fair and just food system throughout the UK.

Our Food Co-ops run every Wednesday 10-2 and every Thursday 11-4 at the Teviot Centre.

Follow links in my stories for full review on the Bridging the Gap programme at Sustain UK, and the full publication that brings together our ethos and all we fight for as a just food charity network.

As part of the network, and with the continuous support from and , we will continue to strive for food justice and tackle food poverty throughout our communities. Everyone has the right to nutritious food 💚

First image here is credit to environmental artist and activist, Andrea Bower, whose work I saw as part of the Dear Earth exhibition .gallery during