August Bucket List: How to live more naturally this month
August is finally here, and the amazing abundance of vegetables in the garden. Spend your time picking the treasures of the forest, berry season is on! Here is your monthly dose of natural lifestyle inspiration for August.
I have gathered plenty of Natural Lifestyle inspiration for you for this August, the last month of summer! Get more ideas and support for your natural living journey from my other Natural Living articles.
Not yet August? Check out the July bucket list for natural living.
Make natural wreaths
Use foraged materials to create beautiful wreaths from scratch. Don’t know what to forage and collect from the woods? Check my post for foraged wreath inspiration with plenty of things to look for when walking in the forest.
Make berry smoothies
If not every day, but maybe every other day?… Whip up a smoothie with plenty strawberries, a one pear and a banana. Blend until smooth. Add milk until the consistency is perfect for you. If you want to make it more yummy, use some cream, but maybe that one not every day, right? And if you have not yet done blueberry iced tea this is your moment.
Freeze summer berries
Blueberries are most handy to freeze in bags, strawberries in slices, or crushed in boxes. If you have access to raspberries (deep love towards them), freeze them on a single layer on a tray before bagging or boxing them to prevent them from becoming mushy. (I use old metallic crayon boxes as a tray and line it with parchment paper; they are handy, square, and repurposed).
Forage mushrooms
Pick up mushrooms, but only the ones you are sure you recognise 100%. Chanterelles and trumpet mushrooms are here in the North, the ones we have in abundance. Clean them, freeze them, or dry them for later use if not used for a soup or quiche right away. Can I just say how yummy a false morel soup with cream is? Picking and boiling them is a bit risky business with a curious 3-year-old next to me, so havend done that for a long time. What is your favourite mushroom recipe? If you know any good ones, I’m all ears!
Make whipped lingonberry porridge
This yummy treat is actually our daily snack also outside the berry season. I started to prep it ready in the fridge a day before to ease my daughters snack time after work. It is a semolina berry porridge, made with boiling lingonberries in water, blending them and then cooking with semolina. I like to cool it until next day and then whisk it with electric whisk to make it crazy fluffy and serve it with milk or as afancy dessert with vanilla custard or cream..
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Harvest, harvest, harvest
Whatever you have cultivated, this starts to be the time to get some love and energy back in the form of tomatos, cucumbers, herbs, courgettes, fresh fruits, and soon pumpkins and potatoes too. Skip the grocery store and use what you can fresh. Store the extra.
Buy local vegetables
If you don’t have your own garden, this is the perfect time to start sourcing local produce. Prices are low, and the threshold is so much lower that if you have ever wanted to visit a farmer’s market or a farm, now is the time to find the farms where you can pick your own corn, strawberries, beans, or whatever you need. Keep those places in mind when winter starts to creep, and see if you can continue buying from them until the stocks end.
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What goes on your bucket list in August?
What are your natural lifestyle favourites for August? Comment below or tag me on Instagram with @blue.tea.tile. I want to see what goes on your bucket list in August!
