Hi Ingvarr!

Glad you liked the post – and hope you enjoy some of my other writings too. I am comitting to returning to blogging more often!

To be honest, Blushing brackets aren’t one of the medicinal mushrooms that has a lot of ‘buzz’ about them – but I have found them to have useful immune-stimulating and possibly anti-microbial activities. The area I live in is mostly young woodland – less than 50 years as the valley was heavily industrialised until the 1970s – so I have to make do with what we have growing here. And we have a lot of 40-50 year old willow trees that get covered with Blushing Brackets when they fall. So I learnt to use them!

I hope we don’t have a scarcity of medicines – herbal or conventional too! But it’s always good to have alternatives. The events of this post did lead me to be a lot more considerate that nature isn’t a shop and doesn’t always have what we need in stock… so (without taking too much) I’m far more aware of keeping good stores for lean times.

Ah yes… a garden (or medicine chest!) without garlic is a poorer one indeed. It is extremely useful. Stand by for my next post in a week or so on making Onion and Elecampane syrup!

Greetings from a grey and muddy North Wales!