We are Dan & Laurie and our land is called Freedom Forest – Its 3 acres in the South of England where we are creating an edible oasis and trying to provide as much for ourselves, from our land as possible and we are completely off grid.
Our food growing journey began together in 2017 when we created our first No dig lasagne bed. Every year we grow more and more and now we are currently around 60-70% self sufficient in our food needs.
Our style and methods are inspired by permaculture and we try to be thoughtful about how and what we do, to be as gentle on the planet as possible.
In our videos you can follow our journey as we share our experiences and what we get up to at Freedom Forest. We’ve been gathering Dandelions from our Food Forest this week and enjoying glistening, fragrant Dandelion Honey – Its super easy to make, so we made an extra video this week, as we wanted to share this simple recipe whilst the Dandelions are pumping. We’re loving foraging and using the wild edibles that grow naturally on our land, they are great for extra nutrition and goodness.
We are MASSIVELY grateful that you choose to watch our Videos and support us in this way, however, If you appreciate and get value from what we share and would like to help us a little more, you can become a Freedom Forest Patreon (link below).
It takes us about a day to film each video and another few evenings to edit it, Patreon provides a way you can support what we do with any size donation you wish, it could simply be the value of a packet of seeds! We have many projects coming up, as well as wanting to improve our videos with better camera equipment… maybe even a drone one day to make our videos even more detailed and better quality for you to enjoy! You can help make it viable for us to keep putting the time into making these videos by becoming a Patreon. In return your name will appear in the end credits of our videos and we’ll message you a password for the ‘members area’ of our website where we share more of our favourite recipes exclusively for our Patreon’s 💚
https://www.patreon.com/freedomforestlife
Enjoy & Thanks for Watching
✌️🌿 Peace and Plants
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18 Comments
I used to see dandelions as weeds but not anymore. Their flowers are pretty and I’m looking into the medicinal properties. Thanks for sharing!
Wow thats so easy! I'm going to give it a go soon. Just a Q about sterilising the jars, 20 mins in the oven at about what temperature?
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I love your videos about foraging and cooking with the wild edibles. Can't wait to try your recipe 👨🍳🍯💛
Looks good – what kind of sugar was it that you used please. Would love to try this..😊
Amazing how the greenish pulp in the saucepan turned into the golden deliciousness at the end. I love dandelion in salad but had less success with dandelion wine – it was like drinking rocket fuel! A couple of years after I poured it down the sink, I was at a posh dinner where the wine tasted exactly the same as my rejected dandelion vintage 🤣🤣🤣
Thank you for sharing this recipe! 💚👌
Why do vegans eat so much fake food. Real honey is highly nutrient special. Sugar is not. Fake chicken, butter, meat, eggs, etc are a poor replacement for the real thing.
I love all these great recipes you show us and can't wait to try this one.
I always leave my dandelions for the bees (and our honeybees) but this is a fab recipe and I'm going to try it. Thanks.
Hi hello lovely lady , when it's come to dandelion, every part of the plants are edible (flowers,leaves, roots) the roots are grilled and used like coffee and of course the leaves are used as salad or it can be cooked like spinach! Many thanks for sharing with us , I must try that honey recipe big bisous from 🇫🇷
I've been meaning to make this for ages. Thank you for the recipe I'll definitely give it a go now ✌️🌿
Amazing! I love dandelions so much, I’m going to have a go at making this for sure!
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I learned of the nutritional value of this plant 3 years ago, sometimes I will simply pluck a flower, blow the wee beasties out and eat it, tried making the coffee but wasn't impressed – I'm going to try your recipe, thank you for the video
Definitely going out to pick dandelions!
Love this. I'll give it a go one day.
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Why the huge amount of sugar though? The insulin spike must be horrendous after a teaspoon of that honey.