Edge of the Hedge Hannah Sylvester

As we spring towards February, I have some wooly company by the edge of the hedge, and I find myself drawn to the luminescent lichen on the hawthorn hedge, before heading back into the village to see the yellow beacons of floral groundcover that are the winter aconite in the churchyard. And on the way, coming across the chattering local starlings who’ve recently lost their regular perching site. Recorded at the end of January, we're approaching the midpoint between Winter Solstice and the Spr...

In this episode, it's approaching December's Winter Solstice, in Lincolnshire in the east of the UK, where Hannah (herbalist, nature educator and host) lives. We take a crunchy walk through the frozen landscape after an unusually hard frost, before going to meet a striking, berry-laden Holly tree in the village graveyard, and we hear what could well be a Mistle Thrush...Heralded as the start of astronomical winter, winter solstice is the 24 hour period when there are the shortest number of da...

This month, we'll be taking a walk along a hedgerow-lined path in Lincolnshire, slowing the walking pace, and noticing things perhaps otherwise unseen. And meeting a vibrant purple beacon in the July hedgerow - the Common Mallow, or Malva sylvestris. Hannah shares some images of her walk with the Mallows, on the Edge of the Hedge instagram https://www.instagram.com/edgeofthehedge/Shownotes to accompany this episode can be accesed here: http://thedistrictherbalist.co.uk/edge-of-the-hedge-episo...

This month, join Hannah taking a walk through the fields of Lincolnshire, listening to skylarks, watching how the wind moves through the barley, seeing swallows swoop over the fields, and taking a special trip to visit some beautiful Linden Trees, to experience their peace and beauty, in Riseholme, just to the north of Lincoln. Hannah shares some images of her trip to Riseholme on the Edge of the Hedge instagram https://www.instagram.com/edgeofthehedge/You can find augmented visual content re...