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.

Natural living bucket list for August with inspiration for a more natural lifestyle with suggestions on making a natural wreath, freezing summer berries, and harvesting.

Seasonal Bucket Lists to Live More Naturally Each Month

This natural lifestyle bucket list for August is one of my seasonal bucket list series. I have gathered for you natural lifestyle inspiration in seasonal bucket lists that I am publishing monthly in the Natural Lifestyle Letters. You can subscribe to get them straight to your inbox each month.

You can find each month below according to the seasons.

Hand-drawn outline of a natural wreath as a suggestion to add natural wreath making to the bucket list of August.

Beauty of the 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.

Refreshing Smoothies Using Berries

If not every day, but maybe every other day?… Whip up a smoothie with plenty of strawberries, one pear or apple, and one 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.

Outline of berry smoothie with strawberries with text "make berry smoothies" as a thing to do on the August natural living bucket list.

Berry Season is On

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 in 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.)

Try These Berry Recipes

Outline of raspberries in a branch with a text " freeze summer berries" as a thing to do on the August natural living bucket list.

Outline of mushrooms growing on grass with a text "Forage mushrooms" as a thing to do on the August natural living bucket list.

Abundance of Mushrooms

Pick up mushrooms, but only the ones you are 100% sure you recognise. 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 you’re not using them for 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 I haven’t done that for a long time.

What is your favourite mushroom recipe? If you know any good ones, I’m all ears! Leave a comment at the end of the article!

Enjoy Lingonberries

The yummy treat, whipped semolina porridge, is actually our daily snack, even outside the berry season. I started to prep it ready in the fridge the day before to ease my daughter’s snack time after work. Semolina berry porridge is made by boiling lingonberries in water, blending them, and then cooking them together with semolina.

I like to cool it until the next day and then whisk it with an electric whisk to make it crazy fluffy and serve it with milk or as a fancy dessert with vanilla custard or cream.

| TRY ALSO THIS: Nordic Lingonberry Pie

Bowl with porridge and spoon with a text "Make whipped lingonberry porridge" as a thing to do on the August natural living bucket list.

Natural lifestyle bucketlist for August.

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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 tomatoes, cucumbers, herbs, courgettes, fresh fruits, herbs, and soon pumpkins and potatoes too.

Skip the grocery store and use what you can fresh. Store the extra for the winter.

An outline of a person with harvested wheat in his hands and a text "harvest" as a thing to do on the August natural living bucket list.

A crate full of vegetabeles with a text "buy local vegetables" as a thing to do on the August natural living bucket list.

Visit Farmer’s Market

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.