Lisa Cutcliffe 🍄🌿🍒🐚🌰🌳🐟🌹🦀🍏🔥⛺

🏞🌲SAFFY QUEEN OF LOCHS🌲🏞 • my wee travel companion loves Scotland so much! 🐾🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 She takes in all the sounds of the forest & it helps that it's much easier to find quiet spots with no doggos about, for a relaxed catwalk 🐾🌲 #Roadtrip #Scotland #Mainecoon #Foraging #Lochs

💜 WILD THYME 💜 • perfectly in bloom just now in the highlands, it's hard to spot it without the pink-purple flowers, which are slightly bluer in hue than the heather blossoms 💜 It tastes & smells like normal thyme from the mediterranean but I find it's more subtle & it doesn't have quite as much potency when dried as cultivated stuff, so I usually enjoy it fresh, amazing with fried chanterelles of course, especially when wild camping by the sea or in the forest! 💜 #WildThyme #Thymus #Foraging #WildFood

💛 BIRCHWOOD CHANTIES 💛 • collected a nice bunch of chanterelles for pickling, firm youngsters, a nice bite each! ✨️ #Chanterelles #Foraging #Fungi #WildFood #Gold

☁️🌌 NOCTILUCENT CLOUDS 🌌☁️ • amazing ethereal glow to the north when the sun dips about -10° below the horizon & scatters light back up into thin layers of cloud, which is quite late at night/ in the wee small hours around midsummer as it stays light so long! I'd have had to stay up till 2 or 3am to see this in the highlands this weekend, it was only dark enough for about an hour before it got light again! But back in Yorkshire this display was going on about midnight on my way home, so I had to pull over and try to capture it 🌌 They happen most nights in the summer, if the sky is clear of thick clouds & the layer of wisoy ones is present at the right time 🌌 Have you seen them near you? 🌌 #NoctilucentClouds #Midsummer #NightSky #UK

🌿🫐 BLAEBERRIES 🫐🌿 • yum, my first taste of bilberries or blaeberries for this year! They're still a little tart, but they'll sweeten soon! 🫐 I'm sure they'll be out already in Leeds, but they get so FAT up here in the highlands, nomz 🫐🌿 #Blaeberry #Bilberry #VacciniumMyrtillus #Foraging #WildFood #Heath #Ericaceous #WildBlueberry

MOSSY BIRCH WOODS • our favourite haunts this weekend have been places like this, away from other folk & dogs, hoping for a few chanterelles along the way 💛🐾 Saffy loves these narrow deer paths & trails through mossy woodlands, she will happily trot ahead with her tail up 🥰🐾 #Fungi #Foraging #WildFood #AdventureCat #CampervanCat #MaineCoon #Saffy #TravelBuddy #Cats #CatsOnLeads #Chanterelles #BirchWoods

BAY BOLETES & VELVETS • I've seen several types of bolete this weekend, only one or a handful of each: bay, velvet, cep, pine, brown birch, mottled, orange birch, red-cracking, scarletina, larch & slippery jack... they'll soon be everywhere once again, but these are a few early ones popping their heads above the parapet 🤎🍄 Also spotted a few brittlegills, a few other little brown gilled mushrooms I'm not sure of the ID on, an agaricus of some kind, and loads of pinning & slightly larger chanterelles ✨️💛 #Fungi #Mushrooms #Foraging #WildFood #BayBolete #ImleriaBadia #VelvetBolete #SuillusVariegatus #Boletes

MIDSUMMER COASTAL COURSE • saltmarsh, shingle, sand dunes & seaweed, in glorious sunshine! 🌊 Wonderful day with a wonderful group, little wild tasters to enjoy with lunch of wild garlic pesto sea spaghetti, fresh chanterelles, sea veg & pickles, various habitats covered & fun had by all 🌊 Thank you everyone for coming! xx 🌊 #Foraging #WildFood #Coastal #Saltmarsh #Seaweed

💛 SOLTSTICE CHANTERELLES! 💛 #Blessed #Fungi #Foraging #WildFood #Chanterelles #Mushrooms #WildMushrooms #QuiteEarly

🧡 SOLSTICE BLESSINGS 🧡 • at 21:50 this evening the shortest night of the year begins, marking the summer solstice, tomorrow being the longest hours of daylight in 2024 🧡 I'm in the Lakes this weekend, teaching about saltmarsh greens & seaweeds, as well as having a much-needed poke about in the woods & along lakeshores to see if any fungi friends are already coming out to play after all this rain & some cooler temperatures recently 🍄 Blessings & peace to you wherever you may be, enjoy the sunshine & warm light evenings ✨️ And if you're up between 11pm & 3am in the UK, look out for noctilucent clouds, glowing in the north, when the angle of the sun is about -10° below the horizon 🌌 #SummerSolstice #SolsticeBlessings #LongestDay

Last call for my final coastal course of this spring! On Saturday 22 June we'll be exploring a lovely area of SW Cumbrian coast studying saltmarsh greens, a few seaweeds, shingle-specialist succulents & sand dune edibles 🌊 Visit my site for more info & how to book 🤘 #Foraging #WildFood #Seaweed #Saltmarsh #Coastal #Cumbria #LakeDistrict #NWEngland #LearnToForage

🌿 Saffy loved exploring off lead in the woods while we were away last weekend! 🍃 She'd been gone from camp about quarter of an hour when I heard a load of blackbirds alarm calling nearby, so I went to check Saffy wasn't doing anything to them or their nests etc 🌿 This is how I found her, sitting serenely on the mossy roots of this majestic ancient oak tree, hidden in a screen of ferns, watching the world go by & loving her wildcat freedom, no floofs given about the noisy blackbirds haha! 💚 You wouldn't know she's nearly 15, she's doing so well ♡🐾 #Cats #CatsOfInstagram #KatKin #VanLife #CampervanCat #MaineCoon #Saffy #Foraging #WildFood #England #InTheWoods #CatVenturing @catsofkatkin @katkin.club @britishwildfoodfestival