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Honey fermented pine shoots
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Honey fermented pine shoots

ByRania June 7, 2024May 20, 2025

A foraging guide to honey fermented pine shoots: How to forage responsibly, what to think about and the ingredients needed.

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Mushroaming And Forest Bathing
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Mushroaming And Forest Bathing

ByRania September 5, 2021June 14, 2024

This week I have been out mushroaming and forest bathing a lot as a means of getting a break from the screen and work in the office.

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Cooking With Oyster Mushrooms
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Cooking With Oyster Mushrooms

ByRania August 27, 2021June 14, 2024

Cooking with Oyster Mushrooms is lovely and they are very tasty in this warm winter sallad with chickpeas, broccoli & honey glazed beets.

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Nordic Spruce Syrup
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Nordic Spruce Syrup

ByRania June 23, 2016June 13, 2024

Come spring you can forage for spruce shoots. a source rich with vitamin C. In this post I’ll share how to make your own nordic spruce syrup.

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hello and welcome!

My name is Rania

I live in a small northern town of Sweden where I work as a freelancing photographer, visual communicator & photography educator. I strive to live slow, sustainably and intentionally and in this blog I will share my life from outdoor adventures and photography tips to traveling and foraging & using wild food.

May also contain traces of coffee and cats.

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Grain & Fern

photographer, content creator and maker of things

grainandfern

Fotograf & kommunikatör med fokus på natur & livsstil 🌲 @omsystem.cameras ambassador. Represented by @johnerimages📍Sundsvall, Sweden

This is my garden, wonderfully wild and unkempt. B This is my garden, wonderfully wild and unkempt. But even though it's ours, it's not for us, it's for them 🐝🦋

In return, there is so much beauty and life for us to enjoy, and for me to photograph 📷 🌼

#liveslowstaywild #savethepollinators #nomow #biodiversity #biologiskmångfald
//sponsored post // ✨️ These images perfectly capt //sponsored post // ✨️ These images perfectly captures what this summer is all about. After a long, hard winter and spring, all I plan on doing is bike around enjoying nature. Just slow living and close by adventures 🚲

I've teamed up with @sportproffsen.se who's made sure me and my partner can enjoy this together, so you can expect a lot of bike adventures, photography and camping 👌🏽 I love biking SO much, and nothing makes me feel quite as free as when I'm gliding through a golden sunset with a camera slung over my shoulder. 

If you need a new bike, SUP or anything else for an active summer, use the code Rania8 for 8% off the entire selection at @sportproffsen.se.

#liveslowstaywild #näräventyr #sportproffsen #fitnord #summervibes
The other day I went to check the mail and found a The other day I went to check the mail and found a wool carder bee 🐝 We gently got it out onto a log with some damp moss, offered it a flower and after a little while it flew away. Luckily not before I could get my camera + macro lens. What a cute fuzzy buzzy!

As we work on making the garden better for biodiversity, I keep coming across species I've never seen before and it is such a joy ✨️

The day after heavy magazines from both @cameranaturamagasin & @fotografernasforbund were thrown down into the mailbox, and I'm glad the bee was no longer there!

📷 OM-3 + M.Zuiko 60mm F2.8 

#svenskafotografer #biologiskmångfald #macrophotography #cameranatura #naturfotograferna
The first rays of the sun illuminating 'my' local The first rays of the sun illuminating 'my' local forest. 

#omsystemcameras #putyourselfoutthere #cameranatura #skyddaskogen #biodiversity
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