Textile artist / Permaculture Food Forester / Bespoke crochet / Repurposed materials / Wearable Art

Foraging in Cornwall for Fat Hen cookery school. How to pick gorse flowers painlessly and a gorse flower cordial recipe.

Elderflower cordial – (simple but messy) Elder is a tree that I have only learned to recognise recently, and it was fuelled by my determination to make and bottle some of the (drinkable) British Classics. First on this list was elderflower cordial. Elderflower season is over for another year, but fortunately I managed to pick quite a few, and it should