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Honey fermented pine shoots
Wild Food

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

A few weeks ago we visited a Nature Reserve near u A few weeks ago we visited a Nature Reserve near us, and it is very clear after visiting this place, that when we protect an area by leaving it alone, life thrives.

More photos and words at grainandfern.substack.com 

📷 OM-3 + M.Zuiko 20mm & 40-150mm + teleconverter 

#omsystemcameras #omgeneration #cameranatura #naturfotograferna #liveslowstaywild
What an absolutely amazing summer we've had! It's What an absolutely amazing summer we've had! It's felt slow and free, and a lot of it is definitely due to our bikes 🚲✨ 

// This is a sponsored collab with @sportproffsen.se 

It's been lovely to just hop on them and head to the local burger shack, into town for a pub evening or to our friends for pizza and game nights.

We've also explored the surrounding area, and been out for a whole day on a 70k ride through farm fields, along rivers and in forests.

Summer spent on a bike is like being a kid again. I love the feeling of care free adventure and the ease of which we can turn into a small path to see what's there or stop at the side of the road whenever we see something pretty - or a booth to buy local honey!

Thank you @sportproffsen.se and @fitnordbikesandoutdoors ! 🙏🏽

#sponsoredpost #sportproffsen #fitnord #bikeadventure #liveslowstaywild
Butterflies and moths are such magical beings 🦋 Th Butterflies and moths are such magical beings 🦋 Their caterpillar form often looks nothing like their evolution (yes I grew up with Pokémon). What happens inside of their chrysalis is spectacular:

Most of their body transforms into liquid soup (yup!) but parts of the central nervous system survive, and learned memories carry over into the adult butterfly. 

Like, how wild is that?! They turn into goop, transform into something so beautiful, with completely different colors BUT some of their memories carry over?

If that is not pure magic then I don't know what is.

📷 OM-3 + 40-150mm F2.8 PRO + 2x Teleconverter 

#omsystemcameras #entomology #lepidopterology #cameranatura #naturfotograferna
Biking through lush forests and past sparkling lak Biking through lush forests and past sparkling lakes, bathed in golden light, together with my partner - that's been this entire summer vacation ☀️ I'm showing him my favorite spots, and we're exploring new ones! Now that we both have an eMTB we can go Anywhere, and that's freedom!

》Sponsored post together with @sportproffsen.se

Until Augusti 31 you can get 8% off at using my code Rania8, to help set you up for adventure as well! 🤎✨️

#sponsoredpost #reklam #emtb #bikeadventure #fitnord
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