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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 & naturalist 🌲 Studerar till Landskapsvetare
@omsystem.cameras ambassador. Represented by @johnerimages📍Sundsvall, Sweden

Nature, what an artist you are. These colors and t Nature, what an artist you are. These colors and textures are unreal! Lichen & moss on a log in our garden, but it could almost just as easily have been a coral reef underwater. Magical ✨️

I wish people could truly See nature. You don't need more stuff to be happy. Just go outside, slow down and be aware. It's amazing, and it's alive.

📷 OM-5 + 60mm F2.8 Macro 

#omsystemcameras #cameranatura #lichen #naturfotograferna #putyourselfoutthere
I love being by water: Fog dancing across a lake, I love being by water: Fog dancing across a lake, a dark forest tarn or babbling brook, it's beautiful! Being IN it? Less enjoyable, but educational! 

Through school we were tasked with finding invertebrates in a creek / river. It was cold and challenging, and I definitely prefer plants and mammals. But water, and all it's life, is vital for the health of our landscapes and biodiversity!

And I got see 4 big trout travel silently up the river which was an amazing experience ✨️

Big thank you to Dan, my best friend & partner, for the company, note taking & photos 🤎

#landskapsvetare #biodiversity #cameranatura #omsystemcameras #putyourselfoutthere
The fieldfare [turdus pilaris] has been feasting o The fieldfare [turdus pilaris] has been feasting on rowan berries all week 🍂 Did you know birds often wait to eat rowan until a frost? Freezing the berries breaks down complex starches & reduces bitterness, making them softer, sweeter & easier to digest. 

📷 OM-3 + M.Zuiko 40-150mm paired with MC-20 

#cameranatura #birdlife_europe #naturfotograferna #omsystemcameras #omsystemom3
We've let the thistles run wild along the edge of We've let the thistles run wild along the edge of our property. The beautiful purple flowers feeding the butterflies all summer, and birds like the European Goldfinch come fall and winter.

When we 'clean up' in nature, we remove habitats that offer food, shelter and homes for our fellow beings we share this round home with. As it grows ever colder, food is scarce and these dry, to us now 'ugly flowers offer much needed substance. Especially so once snow falls. 

So, let it be a little wild and messy. It's OK. It's natural. 

#liveslowstaywild #naturvård #natureconservation #naturalist #birdlife
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