Ok, this is cheating a bit – in the sense that these herbs are not from round my way – but rest assured that they can all be found within the city limits. I have just returned from my first guided forage led by the fantastic Dermot Hughes from Forage Ireland. The forage took place…
Author: Stevie
I am a freelance writer, proofreader, copy editor and amateur herbalist from Belfast in the north-east of Ireland.
Wisdom of the Elder
The Sambucus nigra, or elder, has got everything a novice city herbalist might require; delicious, nutritious, healing, and as common as arseholes. Its easy identification was key to drawing me into herbalism and sparking an enduring fascination with this versatile plant. It grows absolutely everywhere on my part of the planet – gardens, parks, motorway…
Welcome to North Belfast
On my doorstep – and probably yours At what point did we stop taking notice of the beneficial plants that live around us? At what point did nettles cease to be one of the most nutritious, healing herbs available to us – from seed to root – and instead become merely a pain in the…
Herbal Urban 