This easy gluten free banana loaf recipe is perfect served slightly warm with a spread of butter and a cup of tea. Ingredients 5 organic smallish ripe bananas 250g Doves Farm gluten free flour 140g light muscovado sugar 75g organic butter (I like salted), melted 2 large free range eggs 2.5 teaspoons of bicarbonate of … Continued

Cleavers grows abundantly in our hedgerows and springs up in waste places and fields. It is a traditional spring tonic and in 1652 Nicholas Culpepper wrote, “it is a good remedy in the Spring, eaten (being first chopped small, and boiled well) in water-gruel, to cleanse the blood, and strengthen the liver, thereby to keep … Continued

Chaga in History The Chaga mushroom (Inonotus obliquus) doesn’t look like a regular mushroom. It is a parasitic fungus. Black, lumpy and charred-like, Chaga is found growing on the trunk of the birch tree in forests of northern Europe, Asia and North America. Very few westerners had even heard of this strange looking mushroom until … Continued