🌼 Ummm lovely daisy balm making. Definitely feeling the signs of Spring this week.

🌼 There’s lots of variations on this, some add lavender oil, some leave the daisies to stew in the olive oil for a couple of weeks but as I have the attention span of a knat and sometimes just want a ‘quick result’, I did this instead (I appreciate not as potent) 😊

Fill half a small jar with daisies (the sort of jars you get in hotels with jam in)
Pour in olive oil and leave (we left ours for about 45 mins)
Melt bees wax or coconut wax in pan then mix in olive oil and daisies
Drain off the daisies as you pour into the glass jars. 🌼🌼💚

🌼IF I had more time I would do it differently but amongst all of this was fire lighting, pizza making, working together, having ideas about how long the wax might take to set, understanding the medicinal uses of plants and viewing our landscape through the lens of our ancestors.

(The closest I think I’ve found to how I do it is in the book Knowledge to Forage – Home is Where our Heart is❤️)