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Hello I’m Danielle, welcome to Gather Victoria!

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Painstakingly gathering the barberries from their thorny branches is a prickly business - but I'm determined. It's been a bumper year for these tiny tart fairytale pretty berries and I've got plans of all kinds. Japanese Barberries are a common oranmental plant in my neighborhood but their European relatives were once beloved in jellies to accompany meats, used in pickles and in preserves to enhance tart flavor. #barberry #oldfashioned #ouch #forage #winterberry Gathering together some of the dried ingredients for my Winter Woodland Tea: salal and trailing blackberry leaf, dried salal berries, hawthorn berries, oregon grape berries, rosehips and wildflower petals.This will be mixed with grand fir needles and touch of wild mint for an fragrant, mood lifting and deeply nourishing tea. Going out to Gather Victoria Goody Box patrons.#forest #wildtea #foresttea #healing #forage #wildfoodlove #hawthorn #gatherpatreon Today I'm making Strawberry Tree Liqueur with honey and vodka and these candy apple red fruits. These grow all over my neighborhood and taste like a combination of peach and guava and make a creamy luscious filling for Strawberry Tree Crumble Cake. Rediscover this magical forgotten fruit on gathervictoria.com - along with the Crumble Cake recipe! #arbutusunedo #ancientfruit #forage #foodmagic Honoring those that fought fascism in the Spanish Civil War. Over a thousand volunteers from Canada joined the global effort to oust Franco. They did not return heros but "reds" spied on by their own government. Today they have been literally @erased by history. My friend @pamela.vivian has been working on a documentary telling this story. #macpaps #erased #spanishcivilwar #neverforget Decanted and bottled my Crow Garlic Vinegar today. Made with late summer blossoms of Allium vineale - hence the amazing color. This oniony garlicky vinegar is going out to Gather Victoria Goody Box patrons! #herbalvinegar #wildonion #pungent #forage #wildfoodlove #wildfood #gatherpatreon Cup of quince puree sweetened with honey and a dash of nutmeg & orange blossom. This went into an experimental Quince Polenta Cake that I can hardly wait to get out the pan. How can it be that there is lemon polenta cake, blood orange polenta cake but no recipe for quince polenta cake? Hoping mightily it will turn out! #quince #goldenapples #quincecake #hereshoping I decided to give @chefheidifink tip on baking quince slightly (to soften them before decoring) a try. Quince are rock hard to cut through and you want to get as much glorious flesh off the core as you can! Alas, I forgot them in the oven and they got a good roast. Good news is that the skin peels off easily leaving all that quince succulence exposed. #happyaccident #quince #foodgloriousfood #whatnow The perfumed golden apples of Eve, Venus & Aphrodite are on the agenda today.As is getting my kitchen table back. Hopefully. #quince #goldenapples #lovemagic #gettingorganized Busy with last minute harvests! Freezing weather is setting in! Today calendula for oils & salves, trailing blackberry leaves for teas and gingko for tincture. Tomorrow rosehips and hawthorn. #busybee #lastharvest #herbalhealing #medicinemaking I have only recently discovered the joys of risottos - and the challenges! But my oh my Slippery Jack Mushroom (Suillus luteus) Risotto w/ Crow Garlic greens (allium vineale) is making me very, very happy this evening. #risotto #forage #wildfoodlove #bolete Hekates Supper. Check out the video on Gathers fb page... fb.com/gathervictoria.com. Rustic cakes were once left on the "tumili of the dead" by the forgotten priestesses of the underworld mysteries, the Haliorunna. Find a recipe for Haliorunna Cake on gathervictoria.com and a video on Gathers fb page - link in bio. A perfect Samhain offering for the ancestors! #samhain #foodforthedead #ancestralwisdom #cake #witch #holidaybaking #pagansofinstagram

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  • Double Chocolate Curly Dock Seed Cake: A Healthy, Decadent Delight!
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  • Rhubarb-Rose Pannacotta Squares: Keto Darlings!
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