I’ve added a new mini course inside the community all about one of my favourite wild plants — the humble and powerful nettle 💚 Inside, I share recipes, practical uses, folklore, and ways to work with nettles more confidently and intentionally. The course unlocks when you reach Level 3 in the community 🌙 You gain points simply by engaging:✨ commenting✨ posting✨ joining in conversations✨ supporting others along the way To check your progress, just hover your mouse over your profile picture and you’ll see how many points you currently have 🌿 I really love this way of doing things because it encourages us to build a real, living community together — and the more you take part, the more doors open along the path. Love from the hedgerow,Lea x

Nettle season is one of my favourite times of year 🌱 Every spring I make big batches of nettle purée and freeze it in ice cube trays so I can enjoy it for months afterwards. In the morning I’ll often defrost a cube and spread it on toast — especially delicious topped with a poached egg 🍳Or I’ll throw a cube into casseroles, bolognaise, soups, or pasta sauces as an easy boost of nourishment. Nettle really is one of nature’s superfood. It’s particularly high in iron and vitamin C and packed with minerals — almost like a natural multivitamin growing freely around us. It can be used in so many dishes as a more nutritious alternative to spinach, and once cooked, the sting completely disappears. 🌿 My simple nettle purée recipe: • Fry one onion and a few garlic cloves gently in real butter• Add a pan full of rinsed nettle tops• Pour in a small cup of water• Wilt the nettles down for less than 5 minutes• Add a large dollop of butter and plenty of salt & pepper• Transfer to a food processor and blend until smooth Simple, nourishing, seasonal food 🌱 If you make it, I’d love to hear how you use yours too. 🌱 A little note: only harvest young nettle tops before the plant flowers or goes to seed. Once nettles begin flowering, the leaves can develop compounds that may irritate the kidneys, so it’s best to stop harvesting them for food at that stage.

I heard this question recently on a Tara Brach podcast, and it really stayed with me: "Who would you be if you didn’t have a problem to solve?" So often, we move through life with a sense that there’s something to fix… something to figure out… something not quite right yet. And in that, we can forget what it feels like to simply be. To not be working on ourselves, to not be analysing or improving or striving, or not be carrying something that needs resolving. Im very guilty of this, I often describe myself as a personal development junkie, its something i'm working ;-) lol You, without the weight of a problem. 🌙Take a moment with this. - What softens in you when you consider it? - What feels different in your body? - What might open up if nothing needed fixing right now? There’s no right answer here—just an invitation to notice. If you feel called, share what comes up for you below, I’d love to hear, or just keep it in your journal or thoughts.

Welcome 🌿 I’m so glad you’re here. This is a space for women who feel the pull to slow down, reconnect with nature, and come home to the natural world and themselves. Here’s how to get started: 👉 Step 1: Watch the welcome video below and read the post. 👉 Step 2: Explore the classroom. You’ll find rituals, reflections, seasonal living practices, and tools to support your nervous system and inner connection 👉 Step 3: Jump into the community and share what’s brought you here, what you’re hoping for, or what you’re currently navigating. Take a moment to read what others are sharing and gently connect 👉 Step 4: Check out the support options, If you feel called to go deeper, you can join our circles, group coaching, and access the full library of support, just click on 'Classroom' above this post. 👉Introduce yourself below! Tell us your name, where you are in the world, and one thing that called you here 🌙 I’ll go first:I’m Lea, based in North Wales, UK, and I created this space because I truly believe we’re not meant to do this alone. Nature, community, ritual, earth-based spirituality and seasonal living have been such a big part of my own journey back to myself—and I wanted to create a place where others could experience that too. Can’t wait to walk this path with you 🌿 Much love from the hedgerow, Lea. 🌳

We went to the Green Man Festival in Clun yesterday, they have a symbolic “battle” between the Green Man and the Ice Queen. In this telling, the Ice Queen represents winter — the cold, the stillness, the time of retreat. The Green Man, crowned in leaves and wildness, represents life returning — growth, fertility, and the rising energy of summer. Traditionally, this story would have been told through the Oak King and the Holly King — two aspects of the same force, locked in an eternal cycle. The Holly King ruling the darker half of the year, and the Oak King returning at Beltane to bring the light back. Here, the Ice Queen has taken the place of the Holly King — perhaps a more visible, embodied way of representing winter’s grip. And when the Green Man wins…it marks that turning point. Not just in the seasons around us, but in something within us too. The crowd cheered and clapped as the Green Man stood victorious on the bridge in the lovely village of Clun. 🌱 The slow return of energy🌿 The quiet sense that life is beginning to move again These stories were never just entertainment. They were ways of understanding the rhythms of life — of remembering that there is a time for stillness, and a time for growth… and that both are needed. I know I certainly embraced 'wintering' this past winter, more than ever before. I needed it. We’re not separate from these cycles. We’re part of them. I’ve added a few photos below ✨ I hope you all enjoyed your bank holiday weekends, what did you do? share in the comments below.