Birch Craft - Sap Tapping, Medicinal Mushrooms & Blessed Besoms!
Sun, 16 Mar
|Beewell Demonstration Garden
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Time & Location
16 Mar 2025, 12:00 – 16:00
Beewell Demonstration Garden, Dykehead, Port of Menteith, Stirling FK8 3JY, UK
About the Event
Celebrating the purifying and rising energy of the new season with the beautiful birch tree and associated fungi.
The first forage of the year usually starts with the elegant birch tree and its rising sap, as the new pulse of the season starts to kick in before much else is going underfoot. There is around a 2-week window in central Scotland where conditions are perfect to sustainably harvest this refreshing and cleansing drink!
Join naturlaist and forager Lauren Lochrie of Herbal Homestead to find out when and what to look out for, how to harvest and use birch sap, whilst exploring this mutlifunctional tree and its uses - including its associated , medicianl mushrooms.
Participants will also gather birch brash and branches (often strewn on the forest floor over winter) to create a traditional, blessed besom (broomstick), a symbol of purification and clearing out the old to let…