therestlesswitch:

Nature’s magical bounty ✨🌱

I foraged these beauties today and there’s so so many more to harvest so we’ll have lots that we’ll be able to preserve and freeze for the summer or this winter. 

I highly encourage anyone who wishes to forage, to know your target plants inside and out. This not only means how to identify them, but also their life cycles, how large their populations are, how much they are harvested from that area, and what proportion you should leave in order for their populations to not only sustain, but multiply.

These are ostrich fern, Matteuccia struthiopteris, and were harvested from one of my clients’ property where they cover almost their entire forested acreage. 

Foraging is one of the ways we can honour nature. We accept it’s gifts and we observe the seasonal changes and are stewards of the land.

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