And recording your findings in a little dedicated notebook!
Just went on a quest to find the best way to incorporate thyme into a lemon and blueberry cheesecake, and wrote down my findings in detail . Life is good
Recently I have started exploring my local woods and parks for herbs and leaves to use for teas and cooking. Today I found Three Cornered Leek and some wild garlic growing right next to it ! I love running around with my little plant identifier app and becoming more and more able to identify all the edible ( and terribly not edible) plants growing around me each day. I pop on my little foraging playlist that makes me feel like a wizard and I skip home with my baggie full of leaves:)
This is the wild garlic I found today
Iβve always grown things and made teas etc. im going to get more serious about herbalism I think. today I bought a bunch of herbs for mixing: motherwort, clary sage, hibiscus, chamomile, and kava kava.
Over-use them. Learn them. Stock up on dry herbs from Penzeys; keep fresh ones in the fridge. You are a witch. You know your tarragon from your parsley. You mutter to yourself βYes,chef,β as you reach for the jar of Herbes de Provence. You feel exalted.
It is good I feel to keep playful expressions of frustration such as this in my arsenal. Sometimes i'll throw in a ' goodness me!' or a simple ' lord!' does the trick also. Something very Charlie Brown about it
Ever since I read this article on psychogeography map making I've been obsessed with making maps based on on arbitrary factors such as smellscapes, sounds, plant life etcetera in my city. Little field guides if you will