You're the boss! Because we hand make our products in our crofters kitchen, we can make personalised orders from our list of home-grown herbs. If you don't see what you want, and it grows in Caithness, we can make a balm, soap, infusion or herb to order. |
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Some of the small herbs.
An alphabetical list of some of the main herbs and plants.
Borge
Chickweed
Clover
| July sees swathes of meadow sweet
appear along our ditches and across the marshlands
around the Lock of Mey. The meadows of wild flowers are as beautiful as any prairie, encircled about by sparkling cold seas and the hum of Caithness bees creating their pure, clear golden honey. |
Comfrey
Comfrey, close up
Comfrey and mint
| Most of the herbs are gathered and
dried in the summer. Red clover and yarrow are dotted between grass tussocks along the lanes and drainage ditches where peat was dug and pulled out by the heavy horses of yesteryear. |
Currants
French lave
Wild primroses - there are wild flowers everywhere!
| Small flowers and nettles grow on the rubble of ruined crofts and show where the gardens were once tilled. |
Fungi: a fairy ring in a local field
More fungi
Purple fungi
Red fungi
Honey from local bees, and locally grown oats
Lavender
Lemonbalm
| In June, the lanes and hedgerows are creamy white with elder flowers, marigolds and other wild flowers. |
Marigolds
More marigolds
A field near the croft is sown with mint, another
crofter’s escape.
Red clover
Rose
Rose petals - I wish you could smell them!
The sunflower that grows outside the kitchen window
bluebells in my garden
a closer look
daffodils growing wild
Thyme
Finally, I saw this when collecting herbs, and had to take a
photo!
That's enough photos for now. Back to work!
