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Fwd: How to make Rosehip Tea & Upcoming Wild Food Walks

Posted by: "Lizzie Fellows" lizzie...@googlemail.com   lizziefellows

Thu Oct 3, 2013 3:24 pm



Still some places available on the wild food walk on Saturday in aid of Leeds
Tidal <http://www.leedstidal.org/>! Book via Mina's website
http://msitu.co.uk/?page_id=216 by 9am tomorrow morning if you'd like to
come on it.

Lizzie

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From: Mina Said-Allsopp <minamoo@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 10:52 AM
Subject: How to make Rosehip Tea & Upcoming Wild Food Walks
To: lizziefellows@googlemail.com

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Book a Wild Food Walk to help us educate poor children in Kenya AND
have a wonderful time learning about Wild Food!
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Hello!

Quite a few people have been asking me about what they can make with Rose
hips now that they are glistening from our local hedgerows and gardens.
There are lots of different things you can do (I am currently making White
Grape and Rosehip Cordial with grapes from a local garden and will be
candying some later this week) and some of the medicinal benefits of this
wonderful fruit have been covered in one of my blog posts 'A Moment on the
Lips, a Lifetime full of
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Rosehips are rich in Vitamins A,C, B1 and B2, and drunk as a tea, they help
to maintain healthy collagen levels in your body which also helps provide
some protection from viral diseases. When I was in Sweden at a conference,
I saw *Nyponpulver* or rose hip powder everywhere. There, they use it to
help relieve inflammation and rheumatic pain in joints as well as an immune
system booster. To benefit from all these wonderful properties, everyone
should have a go at making their own rosehip tea. There is nothing easier
and the recipe is at the end of the email!

I have just 3 wild food walks remaining this year that have spaces on them.
The first is this Saturday the 5th of October. This is actually a
fundraising walk for Leeds TIDAL
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a grassroots campaigning group based in Leeds. This walk costs just £5 more
than my standard walks and half of the proceeds from the walk tickets go to
help support their excellent work. We will be picking such things as
beefsteak fungus, hen of the woods, honey fungus (hopefully), and various
boletes as well as lots of lovely wild plants and fruits. The last two
walks of the season are on the 19th of October and the 9th of November. The
19th of October walk has 4 places left on it and the one on the 9th of
November has 12. Both of these walks are the ones where, in years past, we
have picked the most full baskets of mushrooms with loads of shaggy
parasols, wood blewitts, clouded agarics, various waxcaps and even saffron
milkcaps and ceps in one highly memorable year. So if you've been wanting
to learn about how to identify wild fungi, these are the walks for you! To
book places, just go to the "Shop" section of my website and visit the "Walks"
page.
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*Rosehip Tea Recipe:*

*Step 1:* Pick lots of rosehips. Those huge Rosa Rugosa hips are my
favourite but any hip will do.

*Step 2:* Top and tail your rosehips. If they're ripe, you should be able
to just pull the stalks off the bottoms and the frilly bits off the fronts.

*Step 3:* Remove chokes. Rosehips have little irritating hairs in them that
can even be used to make itching powder! So you don't want to be eating
those. They are found all around the seeds but there's a large cluster
underneath the frilly end bits (the calyx) on rugosa hips that I like to
just pull out with my fingers or tweezers.

*Step 4:* Lay out all your rosehips on some kitchen paper and put them in
the oven on the lowest heat with the door propped open with a wooden spoon
until they are dry and completely shrivelled up. When you squash them, they
should not squish! If you're trying to save energy, you can pop the
rosehips in the oven for about 1 hour to get the process started then leave
them out in a warm place like an airing cupboard to dry the rest of the
way. The reason why you should start them off in the oven is because if
they're really ripe and soft, they might start to ferment and spoil before
they dry out which you don't want. With smaller rosehips like those of the
dog rose, I have skipped this step and dried them by leaving them in a
single layer in a basket in my rather warm kitchen and they've dried out
fine.

*Step 5:* Put your hips in a food processor and pulse until they're broken
up but not completely pulverised.

*Step 6:* Shake the fruits through a metal sieve to allow all those fine,
irritating hairs to fall out of the bottom. As responsible adults we would
never use this itching powder to play pranks on unsuspecting friends.

*Step 7:* Store your rosehip tea in a glass jar. Have a delicious cup a day
made with 1tsp of tea, steeped for 10-15 minutes in a teapot or cup with
the saucer on top to stop the volatile compounds escaping. Enjoy!

Happy Foraging!

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2.1.

FW: Hands On for crayfish and grass snakes   Saturday 5 October, 10

Posted by: "Chiara Tornaghi" chiara....@gmail.com   chiara_tornaghi

Thu Oct 3, 2013 3:38 pm





From: Mick Marston [mailto:mick@farmgarden.org.uk]
Sent: 30 September 2013 13:37
To: Chiara Tornaghi; Andy Goldring; bliss@dircon.co.uk
Cc: Trickett, Emma; John Preston; JCummins@groundwork.org.uk
Subject: Hands On for crayfish and grass snakes Saturday 5 October, 10 am -
4pm Meanwood Valley Urban Farm

Please could you promote this we still have some places and its family
friendly thanks mick

Hands On for crayfish and grass snakes

When: Saturday 5 October, 10 am - 4pm

Where: Meanwood Valley Urban Farm,

Sugarwell Road, Meanwood,

Leeds LS7 2QG

During the day an expert will be on hand to tell you

more about the White Crayfish, a native species of

crayfish found in the stream at Meanwood.

You will be able to take part in hands-on activities to

improve grass snake habitat, plant up meadowland

and to make a pollinator home to take home with

you. No previous experience is required.

This is a free event with a locally sourced lunch

provided. Accompanied and supervised children will

be welcome.

For full details and to book online go to:

www.farmgarden.org.uk/habitatheroes

Hands on for Habitat Heroes

Co-operative Farms are supporting protected and endangered species on

their farms. Now, this inspiring programme has been expanded to give

Co-operative members and the wider community the opportunity to get

involved.

A partnership of the North Region of the Co-operative Membership, the

Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens and host gardens and

farms, will bring a series of exciting events to the North of England.

The aim is to improve habitats and learn about some of our rare and

wonderful species. On the day there will be 'hands on' practical work and

a guest speaker who will share their specialised knowledge of a particular

species.

Foraging events will follow the six main habitat events later in the year

- find out more on the day.

Places are limited, please book early to avoid disappointment.

Any questions? Contact Lynn Taylor, Tel: 0796 016 4448

Email: lynn@farmgarden.org.uk

Mick Marston, Northern Regional Co-Ordinator
Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens
21 Beech Grove, Blackhall Mill, Newcastle upon Tyne NE17 7TD

Tel: 01207 562 317 Fax 01207 561 317
<blocked::http://www.farmgarden.org.uk/> www.farmgarden.org.uk

Registered in England as a Limited Company, No: 2011023
Registered Charity No: 294494

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2.2.

FW: Hands On for crayfish and grass snakes   Saturday 5 October, 10

Posted by: "Chiara Tornaghi" chiara....@gmail.com   chiara_tornaghi

Thu Oct 3, 2013 3:38 pm





From: Mick Marston [mailto:mick@farmgarden.org.uk]
Sent: 30 September 2013 13:37
To: Chiara Tornaghi; Andy Goldring; bliss@dircon.co.uk
Cc: Trickett, Emma; John Preston; JCummins@groundwork.org.uk
Subject: Hands On for crayfish and grass snakes Saturday 5 October, 10 am -
4pm Meanwood Valley Urban Farm

Please could you promote this we still have some places and its family
friendly thanks mick

Hands On for crayfish and grass snakes

When: Saturday 5 October, 10 am - 4pm

Where: Meanwood Valley Urban Farm,

Sugarwell Road, Meanwood,

Leeds LS7 2QG

During the day an expert will be on hand to tell you

more about the White Crayfish, a native species of

crayfish found in the stream at Meanwood.

You will be able to take part in hands-on activities to

improve grass snake habitat, plant up meadowland

and to make a pollinator home to take home with

you. No previous experience is required.

This is a free event with a locally sourced lunch

provided. Accompanied and supervised children will

be welcome.

For full details and to book online go to:

www.farmgarden.org.uk/habitatheroes

Hands on for Habitat Heroes

Co-operative Farms are supporting protected and endangered species on

their farms. Now, this inspiring programme has been expanded to give

Co-operative members and the wider community the opportunity to get

involved.

A partnership of the North Region of the Co-operative Membership, the

Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens and host gardens and

farms, will bring a series of exciting events to the North of England.

The aim is to improve habitats and learn about some of our rare and

wonderful species. On the day there will be 'hands on' practical work and

a guest speaker who will share their specialised knowledge of a particular

species.

Foraging events will follow the six main habitat events later in the year

- find out more on the day.

Places are limited, please book early to avoid disappointment.

Any questions? Contact Lynn Taylor, Tel: 0796 016 4448

Email: lynn@farmgarden.org.uk

Mick Marston, Northern Regional Co-Ordinator
Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens
21 Beech Grove, Blackhall Mill, Newcastle upon Tyne NE17 7TD

Tel: 01207 562 317 Fax 01207 561 317
<blocked::http://www.farmgarden.org.uk/> www.farmgarden.org.uk

Registered in England as a Limited Company, No: 2011023
Registered Charity No: 294494

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3.1.

Opportunity: LPN Comms Worker

Posted by: "Mags Shevlin" ma...@shevlin.org.uk   shevlinmags

Thu Oct 3, 2013 9:01 pm



This is an exciting opportunity to work for LPN as a self-employed
Communications Worker.

LPN runs a range of permaculture-related activities, from activity days and
courses to monthly socials. We are now looking for someone with experience
of communications work to publicise our activities and get more people
involved.

The contract is worth £1500 and is for 12 months initially. Closing date is
31 October. Further information is attached or can be downloaded from
leedspermaculturenetwork.org

3.2.

Opportunity: LPN Comms Worker

Posted by: "Mags Shevlin" ma...@shevlin.org.uk   shevlinmags

Thu Oct 3, 2013 9:01 pm



This is an exciting opportunity to work for LPN as a self-employed
Communications Worker.

LPN runs a range of permaculture-related activities, from activity days and
courses to monthly socials. We are now looking for someone with experience
of communications work to publicise our activities and get more people
involved.

The contract is worth £1500 and is for 12 months initially. Closing date is
31 October. Further information is attached or can be downloaded from
leedspermaculturenetwork.org

4.

IMPORTANT: NEW MAILING LIST FOR LEEDS PERMACULTURE NETWORK

Posted by: "Toby" tobyr...@hotmail.com   geo8tjnr

Thu Oct 3, 2013 11:33 pm



Hi all,

Its time for change on the Leeds Permaculture Network mailing list. We are closing this yahoo groups list and starting a new mailing list that will be run alongside the shiny new website at http://www.leedspermaculturenetwork.org/. Details of the new list will follow in a separate email - with an invite to join, and instructions about how to do this. Please read this message, and follow the actions, to make sure you are transferred to the new list. Don't worry, it will be a simple process and should leave us with a much better system that we have at the moment.

We're making the change because the yahoo group has never worked at all for some people - lots of people over the years have been unable to sign up to it, and so are not able to keep in touch with LPNas well as they would like. LPN is going really well at the moment, with exciting times ahead- the socials are busy, there are lots of training events happening and the groups are active. We hope that this change of mailing list will further improve communications, and make LPN even more effective.

Hopefully see lots of you on the 9th of October for the Social: Wild food, Foraging and Mushroom ID. Sounds great.

Thanks

Toby (and the LPN committee)

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