Earth Hive

Foraged pine and rhubarb cocktail anyone?!

🌲 I often forage pine needles for my antioxidant cup of tea and had one of those 'I wonder if...' moments...

🍸 Could I create a cocktail - using my pine - and some leftover rhubarb syrup made by my cheffy hubby!?

Guess what... I did, and it was delicious! I'm hooked! Is it like carbon offsetting I wonder!? Gin combined with antioxidants and using up leftovers; what a delightful combo😋💚

I then Googled, as you do, rhubarb and pine needle, and my gabber-was-flasted when I found rhubarb and pine needle tonic by !

You have to try this at home...

🌲 Enough water in a pan to cover a good handful of foraged pine needles
🥥Equal weight in coconut sugar
💧Simmer gently until the water reduces by a half
👩‍🌾Do the same with local or home grown forced rhubarb
🧊Turn off the heat, cool and allow to infuse in the fridge for a day; then sieve the pine syrup.

🍸 Pour 5mls of each syrup into your cocktail glass, a good measure of gin, (I love Brockmans gin ) then ice and tonic to finish!

Now most importantly - enjoy 😏🍸

I don't normally wish time away, I'm a big believer in living in the now- but we've just booked our perfect glamping Tipi weekend which is making me do a little dance!💃

We do lots of camping in the summer but we couldn't resist this incredible family run farm in Kent; it's a box ticker for us...

🌿Wild and connected with nature
🌿Sustainable - Rebel Farmer builds his own soil by composting local waste products such as animal muck, bedding and fleece, spent mushroom waste, tree chippings, oak sawdust and even the waste of local breweries. The produce is ethically grown and chemical free using no Dig/Permaculture methods
🌿A must have super cool polytunnel dining and kitchen all to ourselves with fresh herbs to pick as you cook; any rain won't stop my cheffy hubby from working his magic in here!
🌿 An experience, they take you on a tour of the beautiful local area and the 3-acre micro-farm where we will be harvesting some vegetables, sowing the seeds then sampling some flavours in our dining room.
🌿 The acres of wild will be just for us and our 2 couple friends with our kids of course, swinging from the rope swing, racing around, planting seeds and being wild! I'm sure the kids will be acting that wat too😂

🏵 They sell their organic, soil-grown micro greens locally along with farm grown flowers- including the edible variety🤤 more info can be found on their website; just search 'Rebel Farmer'.

Tell me you're not thinking 'wow I need to go!' We are just sooo excited to visit!

Does this book call out to you like it did me? Are you walking the green path in a modern world? I definitely feel as though I am 💚

🌿 I have a deep need to connect with the elements; it energises my soul🙏

🌿 It's not about needing to return to days gone by when we lived a wilder, harsher life- it's about embracing where we've come; communicating across the globe is a good thing when it's done with love. Living in your 4 bed house because it gives you space to breathe is great and who doesn't love a comfy sofa and meeting friends for dinner in a snazzy restaurant!? I'm not saying we need to go back to living a rose-tinted-version of living off grid to be at one with nature.

🌿 I think the modern green witch has discovered a way to live in suburbia or in an urban city without denying its benefits yet living a life with respect for nature and its gifts to heal, feed and inspire us. Expressing yourself as a part of the earth is vital rather than just being an observer, protecting it like a child for the future generations.

💚 Growing your own food with love no matter how small your space, herbs on a windowsill or a shared allotment will connect you with nature. Foraging for spring herbs to dry as medicine for the year ahead, sharing knowledge and stories with friends and strangers alike.

🙏Some of the strangers I meet along the way become friends, beginning with nature as our connection. I met an amazing lady on a local group who grows all her food with a no dig system, she will be sharing and guiding me to follow her system, keep an eye out for her tips in my future posts.

Thank you to for my beautiful mimosa in the pic, filling my home with memories of a time spent in the Var, South Of France whilst studying essential oils 🥰

Earth Hive Calm Balm recipe🐝🌼

We love getting outdoors; bumps and scrapes are the norm when my little adventurer is involved, so I take my emergency must haves in my bag.

🏥 3% Hydrogen peroxide mixed with colloidal silver in a little spray bottle to clean up a graze on the go
🐝 My Calm Balm with bee love to heal and protect is known as magic cream in our house🍯

Here's a recipe for a small jar:
🐝 In a bain marie melt 2g of organic beeswax from
🌼 Add 15mls of Organic Macerated Calendula from We also make our own in the summer months with calendula from the garden
Once it becomes golden liquid add:
🏥 2ml of colloidal silver, I'm lucky that my lovely neighbour makes this for me
🐝 1/2 a ml of propolis from or
🐝 2ml of organic raw honey from or
🌿 10 drops of organic lavender and 3 drops of blue chamomile essential oils from and pour into a little jar
Whisk it well to combine and pour into a little jar; I use my old blue jars from Neals Yard Remedies. Allow to set before you pop on the lid to keep moisture out. Keep in the fridge and use within 2 months.

It also makes a bee-utiful lip balm on cold days for dry lips.

Do you have a favourite home remedy? Pop it in the comments, I'd love to know 💚

🐝 Hey honey!

My love of all things bees has rubbed off on my family- check out the pic! ☝ Lockdown education had a big 'bee vibe' going on and I now have my own little bee boy🐝

🍯Honey plays a big part in our herbal apothecary at home- from cough syrups, morning super shots, skin potions and just a spoonful for the heck of it!

I'm fussy that's for sure and I have a check list...
🐝 Organic
🐝 Raw & unadulterated
🐝 Sustainable beekeeping
🐝 Made with love

My 2 ultimate favourites for you to check out are local family businesses, but the honey comes from the Balkans where the bees can travel for miles without touching a pesticide ridden or genetically modified flower! An orchestra of blossoms are available from forests and meadows untouched for centuries. Both of these passionate honey producers have incredible organic raw honey, bee pollen, propolis and royal jelly and they both inherited their love of bees from generations before.

Try the ORGANIC RAWyal HONEY from It's like eating the best sweets you have ever eaten! OMG! One spoon and you are in honey heaven. It is artisan-crafted mountain honey, blended with raw organic royal jelly and a touch of oil from Sicilian lemons🍋

My 7 year old adores his Bee Immune for Kids from and they are just a 10 minute drive from us; I've had many a deep chat with Dan the owner about the health benefits of the bee produce!

Each morning we have ours in a shot of warm water, elderberry syrup, black seed oil and a spoon of our raw honey! It's a delicious ritual and it keeps us in great health💚

Check out Saturday's post for my 'bee calm' skin recipe 🐝

On a recent forage (or rummage as my 7 year old calls them 🤭) I gathered pine needles for my cup of tea and a Winter Forest Bath Milk.

The recipe for this invigorating forest bath treat is below 👇

🌲 Infuse a handful of fresh foraged pine needles in a jar using tinned coconut milk for a two days in the fridge.

Add the following essential oils, and give it a good shake:
💧5 drops of pine essential oil
💧5 drops of frankincense essential oil
💧3 drops of cedarwood

🛀 Warm the mixture a little first, then pour into your bath water; it'll feel like a breath of fresh forest air 🌬

🕯 I light a 'Sunday Everyday' candle to set the vibe with earthy, grounding notes of frankincense, cedarwood, petitgrain and patchouli essential oils. They even plant a tree with with each purchase!

💧 The essential oils I used are from Neil's Yard Remedies

🌲You also have to try the delicious tea recipe from
Conifer Needle Tea with Pine, Fir or Spruce

👢Get your boots on and head to the trees this weekend!

🌳 Hug a tree!! Its that time of year again, low light levels, mucky days, lack of motivation and fantasising about warm sunny days which feel so far away right now...

🌳 Pull on your boots and a warm hat and head to your local wood! You can't beat a good forest walk to blow away the cobwebs 🕸

🌳 Forest bathing has had some decent coverage lately, and for a good reason! Breathing deeply, walking slowly amongst the skeletal cathedrals of trees living a cooperative, interdependent relationship together. Some reaching for the stars, others bending and twisting together in a fairytale scene; as we observe the smells, sounds and colours to brings us back into our deep inherent affinity with mother nature, and the cycle of life to put our life in to perspective.

🌳 Did you know trees communicate and send out chemical, hormonal and slow-pulsing electrical signals?! Scientists are just beginning to decipher this complex language.

🌳 Check out your local group of forest bathers and foragers to truly appreciate the love of our wooded areas.

🌳 To bring the essence of forest bathing to my bath time I make a 🛀forest bath milk, check out the recipe for this on Saturday's post!

🙏 Make 2022 the year to be kind to yourself and others, love the earth we walk on and be inspired to make some positive changes rather than feeling guilty for not getting past January with a well intended resolution
🙏 New Year inspirations and aspirations rather than resolutions are more my thing
🙏 Little pledges are better than a sweeping statement of 'being more eco-conscious.' The oceans are made of raindrops 💦

🌎 Why not make your pledges with The Soil Association, check out their page 'Make A Pledge For Our Planet' to add yours, they have a guide to the small changes that make a big difference

My 4 personal aspirations for 2022 are:

🛍 Keeping it local, it keeps the community alive and buzzing. Those local business owners also spend their 💷 in our area and guess what, new cool shops and eating places open up to create a thriving community! It becomes the best place to live ;-)

🍃 Buying food direct from the growers. They have suffered massively in the last 2 years and rely on us to keep going. We don't want our fruit, veg and meat genetically modified in mega farms and transported for miles when it grows on our doorstep by farmers who truly care about the soil and biodiversity on their land. Check out for a directory of your local farms who need you.

🌱 Planning my permaculture veg patch early, creating the cycle of nature, turning food waste into valuable compost. I've never used slug pellets which is the biggest challenge and never weedkillers or pesticides. I'm planning my veg patch with companion plants to attract mini beasts that munch on the veg killers! Even Flo is impressed with my no pesticide, grown by nature beetroot 🥰 Check out the pic 📸🍃

🍄 Growing my own oyster mushrooms! We eat a lot of them at home and they grow in coffee grounds which we have a lot of, watch this space...

2022; the year of community!

Merry chocolate!! 🍫

As promised, a recipe for the best chocolate brownie I've tasted 🤤

🍄It has all the good stuff in it too to keep stress at bay
🧆Organic Raw Cacao to trigger the love hormone 💖
🍄, maitake and sh*take mushroom powder, all naturally adaptogenic to help us cope with stress🤯 and packed with super nutrients
💜Goji berries, mulberries and cranberries, loaded with flavanoids known to boost the mood, immunity and balance blood sugar
🤍And finally, support for preemie babies by buying your organic chocolate from 🍫

🤎Melt in a bain marie 370g of chocolate and 375g organic butter and keep to one side
🤎Whisk on high 6 organic eggs and 425g of coconut sugar for 4-5mins
🤎On a low speed mix, slowly add 180g of organic plain flour, 150g of organic cacao powder and 🍄10g of Mycomplex organic mushroom powder (cacao and flour are from )
🤎Now add the chocolate melt slowly.
🤎In a lightly buttered ceramic bake tray layer dried fruit such as cranberries, goji berries and mulberries with nuts and whatever takes your fancy then pour the brownie mix on top.
🤎Bake at 180° for 25mins (check at 20 mins)
🤎Serve with a drizzle of homemade salted caramel sauce and organic icecream
(homemade if you can)

Now share with loved ones! Or selfishly keep to nibble on over the hols 😋

Merry chocolate everyone!!🍫

🙌Put your hand up if you luuurve chocolate! It's my guilty/not guilty pleasure...

🍫Bit of history - The Aztecs attributed the creation of the cocoa plant to their god Quetzalcoatl who descended from heaven on a beam of a morning star carrying a cocoa tree stolen from paradise.

🤎 I totally buy this! That moment when you break off a little good, I mean really good chocolate and allow it to seductively melt enjoying each individual note, taking that hit of theobromine and pow! Euphoria and the love chemical! 🤎

🍫 So many great choccy brands I could talk about but there are 2 standouts for me when it comes to passion and giving back:

🍫 in an old furniture maker’s workshop in Hackney are the ones to watch! Phil's journey began on a cacao plantation in Guatemala and became a labour of love! He is a one man band roasting and wrapping in his workshop. His mission is to truly support the farmers who provide him with his raw material so he pays 2-3x the fairtrade price.
😋Have a chocolate tasting at home with the Mini Land Collection.

🤎 I am shouting out to a wonderful couple Emily and Mike who I know from Beckenham; they fell in love with chocolate making and use top-quality ingredients such as organic cacao and organic cocoa butter. They also donate all of their profits to who give premature babies the best start in life; our own gorgeous boy, who lights up my life every day with his smile and crazy dancing, was a tiny preemie so this is a charity close to my heart.

🍪 My hubbie Mr Chef has shared his 'to die for' Christmas brownie recipe with me using chocolate from Mike and Emily; check out my Saturday Post for the recipe!

🚶‍♀️Follow me on my journey....

Very soon I will be setting up the Earth Hive website and creating a ‘got to have’ and 'got to go' directory of these wonderful eco-conscious pioneers that inspire me; starting with the South East of England, walking side by side with them on my own very organic journey.

There will be chats and advice from the experts and a flow with nature and the seasons. I will be sharing my own journey of living consciously and my love, and fascination, of mother nature.

I believe taking care of our local environment and our communities is the future; 'We can all be the raindrop which raises the ocean' 💙

Thank you for being here at the beginning of my winding path to wherever it takes me 🥰

It's my business to know about your business and small businesses are my favourite kind! 💚

🚦Each time you’re about to step into a large corporate shop or click pay on a multi million shopping site, pause… and ask yourself, "can I buy that locally?" Spending your hard earned cash in your own community is truly rewarding💖

🗣So here are my 3 small eco biz shout outs, all 3 have helped me on my journey and are wonder women!!

💚 Lovely Fliss is full of wisdom, love and fire. She is my go to for homeopathy for my family and friends and has come to the rescue many times. She is based on the Kent coast so please think of her when you need some homeopathic care and attention. It WORKS!

💚.uk Amelia literally turned me around, she unlocked the rubbish in my subconscious which kept telling me to keep quiet, don’t sell myself, no one would want to know what I have to say blah blah. It was because of this goddess that I am free to be me and show up on social media and I love her for this. She is a South London girl but her Theta Healing and Soul-preneur courses are done online. She is now opening up into the world of sacred geometry which I have an affinity with as it is the key to everything in the universe. Go on check her out!

💚. Jess gave me free marketing advice just because she loved my vision, she did that because she genuinely also has a love for nature, the future of our planet and our children. She now helps me with me social media, often saying, "erm, you will have to cut that down, it’s a novel" LOL. She offers marketing support for small businesses and her passion is organic and eco. Drop her a message to say hi if you too need some support.

Why not take a moment and give a shout out in the comments section to 3 small businesses you love and share that love! Like their posts, comment and share their stories so they can grow organically!🌱

🎄🕯 There's nothing more enticing than opening a gorgeous candle on Christmas morning 🕯🎄

Choose your candles like you choose your food, check where they are made and what they are made of.

👉I avoid paraffin or synthetic fragrance in my home, air quality in our homes is key to my family's health. I will happily spend a little more for a coconut or soy wax candle scented with gorgeous essential oils to ignite hidden memories; hand poured with love just a few miles from my home.

I’m sharing some of my favourite candle makers, the one’s who go the extra mile to ensure quality with an eco heart💚

🕯 have been my go to candle for many years; the calming candle is my all time love which I burn most evenings.

🕯 candles (see photo) were introduced to me by the super friendly lady in my local gift shop in Beckenham. It’s a beautiful complex blend of May Chang, Elemi, Geranium, Nutmeg, Ylang Ylang, Cedarwood, Vetiver, Patchouli and Labdamum in a wax blend of sustainable coconut and rapeseed. In partnership with they plant a tree with each order🌳

🕯 make a festive Christmas candle of cinnamon, clove & clementine essential oils in an uber cool re-usable enamel container, they blend, pour, cure and polish each soy wax candle themselves in Kent. They also offer a refill service and 100% recyclable packaging.

🕯 A London based artisan who makes Eco-friendly vegan soy candles in upcycled glassware, ceramics and vintage teacups, they will even turn your favourite glass piece into a bespoke candle!

🕯 in east London hand pour their soya wax and essential oil candles and give them a Zen yoga vibe.

🕯 in Dulwich have created a richly spiced Christmas Tree Candle with essential oils of cypress, pine, cloves, black pepper, and warm cinnamon. Just close your eyes and think of Christmas past.🎄

Enjoy shopping with these lovely local folk, mention Earth Hive and say I said hi 👋

It's conscious Christmas time!

🛍It's my 1st weekend when I start my Christmas shop, 'local and ethical given from my heart' is my mantra 💗

We have choices and these choices impact on the world we live in and the future for our children. I have made an effort this year more than any other year to minimise our family carbon footprint and to support our community.
I have pre-loved toys stashed in secret places at home that I will no doubt forget where that is and have a little panic as I did last year 😂 and I'm now planning my first shop for friends and family.

💌When you shop from an artist, a maker, a designer you are buying love & joy and a sprinkling of gratitude!

📝Here's part 1 of my shopping list. Look away if you are expecting a gift from me...

are holding an eco and artisan market at the Phoenix Centre in Crystal Palace where I'm collecting my super cool London map eco coasters (see pic), handmade by Louise .uk. She is the beautiful soul who also runs on Sunday's; another fab place for some local talent and great food.

will be getting a visit, I'm picking up some natural homemade bath bombs and gift sets plus whatever takes my fancy.
at Clockhouse, Beckenham is a stop off for some funky shaving soap and beard wash (not for me before you comment) it's made by . I'll also grab some delicious Christmas bauble handmade sweet treats they stock by (see pic).

will be getting an order for a cool handmade kantha bag for a friend and one for me😉

How's your list looking? I'd love to know!
Tag any arty farty friends who are creating lovely gifts just waiting to be purchased.

A sustainable Christmas 1st edition

🥳Are you 'out out' this Christmas!?

If like me you have some social events planned this Christmas, and a new outfit or 2 is on the agenda, then take a moment to ponder how you want to shop this year.

♻️Throwaway fashion is sooo last year! Preloved/vintage is the way. It's fashion with a conscious.

🛍I'm often seen on my local highstreet doing the charity shop dash rummaging for my next smug shop, 'Oh this old thing!' I say to my hubby when he says, 'is that new?'

👉If its a big night out and you're partial to 80'/90's glam mixed with vintage sportswear (which I certainly am 🙌) then head down to in Covent Garden, London.

👉My other love is who have events coming up in the South East in Brighton and Hackney, they are also teaming up with Asda to sell some preloved fashion! At last its mainstream! I bet those who were anti charity shops will be queuing up for a bargain with their mincepies😂

👉If you live near Ramsgate nip down to and chat to the guys there.

♻️Look out for local clothing swaps, check out your local charity shops and go vintage cool this Christmas, the planet will thank you!🙏

Made and mended with love 💕 2nd edition

🍶If you have ever chipped or broken a much loved vase, why not look at making it more beautiful!?

Kintsugi is the 400+ year old Japanese art of 'golden repair', which means that the repair method honors the item by emphasising, not hiding, the break.

When repairing something in life, we often look to repair it to exactly as it was beforehand. However, as Kintsugi teaches us, sometimes it’s better to wear our imperfections and use them to our advantage.

My Eco Order in Brockley have the perfect kit to get started with this beautiful art. What a gorgeous Christmas gift! It's on my list!


📖A good read for a rainy day to inspire your inner creative: The Art of Repair, published by Short Books, is a collection of stories, tips and fragments of history exploring the humble act of textile repair. In this beautiful book, master repairer, Molly Martin, champions the value of slow and sustainable fashion💚

Made and mended with love💕 1st edition

👖 Before you send that favourite worn out pair of jeans to landfill stop for a second...

👉The UK is the fourth largest producer of textile waste in Europe, according to a recent study by Labfresh.
👉The study found each Briton throws away about 3.1kg of textiles every year, and that 1.7kg of fashion waste is landfilled yearly per person!
👉The UK clothing industry is the third largest in Europe and the study found British consumers spend £980,50 a year on new clothes!

👖 Making a feature of a worn area of your favourite pair of jeans, or a moth-eaten jumper with memories in every thread, is a beautiful way to preserve them for another season’s wear; each stitch is an action of mindfulness in itself.

🧵 Traditional Japanese sewing crafts make a repair an art form. 🪡 Sashiko means "little stabs" in Japanese or "little pierce" and is a form of decorative reinforcement stitching that started out of practical need during the Edo era (1615-1868) in Japan.

🧵 For a workshop in Sashiko, Boro and the various arts of repair check out Restoration London, based in Walthamstow , Hannah does face to face works and online too. Such a lovely gift to buy an eco friend😊

💖 Last but not least, a huge out to my lovely boho friend from Streatham who has her lineage in years of fashion design and makes the most beautiful sustainable one-off upcycled jackets, shirts and bags from Kantha quilts. One for your Christmas wish list for sure! Mention EARTHHIVE10 for your purchase of a Kantha jacket for 10% off.

My love of microbes: 2nd edition

📚 In my Head of Training Role for Neal’s Yard Remedies I have great respect and knowledge of medicinal herbs and also how our gut influences every system from immunity, hormones, stress responses, digestion and emotions.
Me and my family have taken pro-biotics for many years so I’m often asked for my choice of which brand I use.

👉 My all time go to is Microbz Gold (link in bio)

💚 I love the fact they are a British, family owned and passionate business, vegan approved and award winning and knowing they are brewed with love.

👉 Their brew is packed to the rafters with BIO LIVE CULTURES

👉 And it doesn’t end there! It’s like a celebrity list of herbs, minerals, and plant extracts in one shot, take a look:
Acai, alpha lipoic acid, apple cider vinegar, apple geranium oil, barley grass, blueberry, boron (boric acid), calcium, camu camu, chaga mushroom, cherry, chia seed, chlorella, chromium, citric acid, clove buds, dandelion root, garlic, ginger, glucosamine, goji, hawthorn berry and leaf, himalayan rock salt, hydrogen peroxide, inositol, iodine, iron, kelp, lemon, maca, magnesium, molybdenum, moringa, MSM, nettle, noni, olive leaf, pomegranate, potassium, rosehip, sea water concentrate, selenium, shiitake mushrooms, sorrel, spirulina, turmeric, valerian, yarrow and zinc.

🦠 The microbes make these anti-inflammatory and immune boosting herbs bio-available for the body to absorb through a healthy gut.

🌍 There are plenty of exciting things to come from this amazing company, you can find their account here:

🦠My love of microbes: 1st edition
Bring back the good guys for the sake of our immunity!

What does the boss bacteria call his employees?? His staph🙊 (sorry, in future I must not use social media as an opportunity to show my immature sense of humour…)

👩🏼‍🌾I was one of those kids who loved dirt! Hands in a mud pie then straight into a crisp packet 🤭 My mum was the kind of parent who sent me to friend’s houses to get sick; we never went to the Dr for antibiotics, just drank honey and lemon, ate chicken soup, and had a good cuddle. I regard myself as relatively healthy and thank my mother for her approach. My grandmother introduced me to homeopathy at the age of 12 so no wonder I have a love for health as nature intended.

👍🏼A good to know: Microbial cells outnumber human cells in your body by a ratio of around 10:1. We are more bacteria than human…So it’s no wonder keeping them in balance is key to our health and wellbeing! They even communicate with each other!

🦠What we do know is that humans have evolved with microbes since the beginning of history and that the microbiome is a complex super organ, that varies from person to person like a fingerprint.

🦠Research shows it is the microbiome that controls immune function, inflammation, digestive health, body composition and the ability of the body to metabolise energy and the gut and lungs communicate via chemical messengers that are produced by microbes to influence the immune status of both.
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
🦠When gut microbes break down food, they produce small molecules like short-chain fatty acids which reduce inflammation and travel via the bloodstream to influence immune cells and activity throughout the body — including the lungs.

👁Keep an eye out for a very microbe-friendly recipe being posted this week.

🍄 Episode 2: For the love of mushrooms

🍄 Foraging: Mushroom hunting has become the new fancy dinner party conversation, 'we foraged the risotto this evening' 😅 but do take care when picking your own without experience, a mistake is a deadly one! Not the best end to the dinner party...

Why not join an expert in the wild? Such as with Michael around Kent and South-East London (also the kind supplier of this fantastic picture, showing a beautiful pair of Ruby Boletes) or .by.fern in Worthing; known as 'that mushroom lady'. She even has truffle foraging in the South Downs. Now that's a good risotto addition.

🍄 Medicinal mushrooms: Don't get me started on how I love to stay healthy with these guys! These extremely intelligent organisms have been used in Asia for thousands of years for their support in immunity and longevity.

The key active compounds found in medicinal mushrooms that research has linked to health benefits are: beta-D-glucans, triterpenoids, and ergosterol and I know that when I take my mushrooms I feel great but knowledge is power, do some reading!

I take a powdered mushroom complex from with Maitake which means 'dancing mushroom' in Japanese. The mushroom is said to have been given its name after people danced with happiness upon finding it in the wild, due to its incredible healing properties. It's combined with my 2 other must haves Reishi and Cordyceps.

🍵 I add a little everyday to my cacao, oat milk with a pinch of turmeric, a grate of nutmeg and pinch of cinnamon.

📽Film to watch - A must watch, if you haven’t already is: Fantastic Funghi

📚 Books to read - Fungarium Welcome to The Museum and also Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake

Disclaimer: Before eating foraged mushrooms, check with your healthcare practitioner if you have health concerns, are pregnant, breastfeeding or on medication.