Hedgerow Hippy

A wee basket of goodies harvested for a friend today 🌸 Happy 1st of August lovelies 🌾 #hedgerowhippy #homegrown #harvest #august #lughnasagh #sharingiscaring #friends (at Muthill) https://www.instagram.com/p/CguWZWhI24z/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

A basketful of homegrown veg from the plot this morning 🌅 Broad beans, purple pod peas, kohl rabi and broccoli 🥦 Dug out some volunteer totties from the compost heap 🥔 Added onions & garlic (already harvested and in store), picked some thyme... ⌚ 😉 Chicken, salt, pepper, stock... 😋 #hedgerowhippy #homegrown #handmade #health #happiness https://www.instagram.com/p/CgSXooGL12k/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Getting my garlic in on the shortest day with the fabulous dibber my wee bro made for me a few years ago 💚 #hedgerowhippy #homegrown #health #happiness #family #oldsayings #newtraditions (at Muthill) https://www.instagram.com/hedgerowhippy/p/CXwH-AsIde5/?utm_medium=tumblr

Road testing the purple hat at the allotment yesterday 🥕 And the yellow hat on this morning's cold but super sunshiny dog walk 🐶 There may yet be a sparkly orange one... #hedgerowhippy #maker #woollyhat #winter #winterwoolies #coorie #getoutside #mentalhealth #crochet #knitting #yarn #yarnlove #craft (at Muthill) https://www.instagram.com/p/CWk5mD8oQYC/?utm_medium=tumblr

What should I do with this? 🤔 I started this Granny Square back in 2013 as a sampler /stash buster and also as a project to keep my hands busy while I was on holiday. 👐 Crochet is my go-to activity when I'm stressed. It helps me to relax and take my brain out of gear. And Granny Squares are perfect because it's an easy repetitive pattern. 👌 It's been stuck in my big bag of bits n bobs ever since but I found it again the other day and thought I should do something with it... What do you think? ❓Bag? ❓Jumper!? ❓Something else...? #hedgerowhippy #handmade #health #happiness #mentalhealth #meditation #stressbuster #mindfulness #crochet #knitting #yarncraft #grannysquare #retro (at Muthill) https://www.instagram.com/p/CWBKQFOIjyK/?utm_medium=tumblr

Looks like coffee✔️ Smells like coffee✔️ Tastes like coffee✔️ ☕ The Dandelion Coffee adventure was a big success and no-one is more surprised than me (except maybe Rog) 😂 I scrubbed the roots and cut them into matchsticks roughly evenly sized and put them in a fan oven at 180°C for 35\45 mins. Some cooked faster than others so I just judged on colour - dark brown and they were ready. Any lighter and they were chewyish and didn't grind well so I put them back in. Rog wouldn't let me use his coffee grinder so I just roughly whizzed them in my wee whizzer. ☕ 2 tsp in cold water in a pan on the stove, brought to the boil and simmered until it looked like coffee! 😋 It was much less faff than I thought it would be and I'm definitely going to do it again. The allotment isn't short of dandelions! ☺️ Will you give it a go? https://www.instagram.com/p/CV-uZv2InNN/?utm_medium=tumblr

It's a messy old business 😱 but the first attempt at dandelion coffee is underway... ☕ #hedgerowhippy #handmade #homegrown (at Muthill) https://www.instagram.com/p/CV8C_d6oMWi/?utm_medium=tumblr

Now if only I could train her to sniff out truffles! 🐶 #hederowhippy #jennydawg #ifyougodowntothewoodstoday #mushrooms #amanita #toadstool #fairies #fairytale (at Muthill) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVyHYmXov8x/?utm_medium=tumblr

Happy Halloween #teamtumshie (at Muthill) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVs1pIQI6c6/?utm_medium=tumblr

Of course, hats aren't just for keeping your head warm ☺ They are also a handy collecting bag when you find a bumper patch of sweet chestnuts on an unexpectedly warm and sunny autumn afternoon 🌰 #hedgerowhippy #forager #autumn #fall #harvest #happiness #botanicalpickmeup (at Muthill) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVsRddGICdm/?utm_medium=tumblr

Hats of Winters Past... I seem to be working my way through the rainbow: red hat / yellow hat / green hat / blue 🌈 What colour will I do this year... ? https://www.instagram.com/p/CVp5yYuMy4l/?utm_medium=tumblr

It's miserable outside but I'm cooried doon indoors, in stash heaven, planning some new Winter woolies 🧣🧦 #hedgerowhippy #maker #happyplace #coorie #crochet #knitting #yarn #yarnlove #babyitscoldoutside (at Muthill) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVnRozqInkg/?utm_medium=tumblr

Herbal tea. From a flask. At the allotment. With mucky hands 🍃 How do you brew yours? 🍵 (at Muthill) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPyqRmAJbKU/?utm_medium=tumblr

How do you brew yours? 🍵 This is my space-age, well-used T2 pot, sent to me by my sister in Australia. 🇦🇺 Contrasted with my more traditional, well-loved, Kew Gardens botanical china mug. 🍃 Today's tea is Rose & Calendula with a pinch of Oatstraw 🌹 What's in your pot today? 🍵 #howdoyoubrewyours? #herbaltea #dailytea #whatsinyourteapot? @t2tea @kewgardens #rose #calendula #marigold #oats #hedgerowhippy #herbalist #herbalistsofinstagram (at Scotland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPlcp2gAa1c/?utm_medium=tumblr

Doorstep life 🏡 Watching the world go by 🐶 #april #lockdown #lockdownlife #jennydawg #hedgerowhippy #spring #springflowers #yellow #sunnyday #dogsofinstagram #muthill #strathearn #scotland https://www.instagram.com/p/CNslE73J6V5/?igshid=1v1n8dwql82a2

Flower 31 - Larch 💜 I did it! I found #31flowersinMarch 🌸 And I saved the best til last - I was ridiculously excited to find this! I am every year. Its such an unexpected burst of colour. 🤯 #plantadventurers - get yourself out there and find a Larch tree near you! (It's the conifer that loses its needles in Winter.) 🎄 #hedgerowhippy #dailywalk #31flowersinMarch #lockdownchallenge21 #spring #flowers #flowerpower #pink #unexpectedjoy #colour #nature #walkwithnature #slowdown #mindfulness #mindfulwalking #selfcare #mentalhealth #ididit #youcandoit #alwayslearning #plantadventures (at Muthill) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNF7QsMJKj7/?igshid=w409ggew8ps4

Flower 30 - Purslane 🌸 Don't focus on the blurry flower (I obv didn't 😁) Look at the back of the perfectly focused flower in the background, the detail in the leaves 😂 🌸 I had hoped that the cuckoo flower would open her pink petals yesterday but a visit to each of the sites and they are tantalising close to bursting but... not yet. 🌸 So I was really pleased to trip over this wee beauty in the woods. 🌸 #hedgerowhippy #dailywalk #31flowersinMarch #lockdownchallenge21 #pink #flowers #flowerpower #ifyougodowntothewoodstoday (at Muthill) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNFXAqppPfh/?igshid=1d9ihd33fffbo