Urban Wild: 52 Ways to Find Wildness on Your Doorstep
Autor Helen Rooken Limba Engleză Hardback – 17 feb 2022
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 147299096X
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 235 colour photos; 40 greyscale illustrations
Dimensiuni: 194 x 234 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.84 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Wildlife
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Descriere
Learn how to de-stress, relax and connect with the wildness you can find on your doorstep even in urban and suburban settings
Increasing workload, nervous tension, trouble sleeping? Wondering whether there is more to life? You're not having a mid-life crisis. Like so many others, you are feeling the call of the wild.Today's urban living makes it easy for us to feel divorced from nature. This practical book is filled with 52 varied and inspiring activities illustrated with beautiful colour photographs that will get you out and about whatever the weather. Featuring a combination of creative, culinary, herbal and mindful projects, all with nature at their heart, you'll be surprised how much wildness you can find on your doorstep when you know where to look.Organised by month, Urban Wild's simple, seasonal, step-by-step activities open the door to nature in urban and suburban landscapes to help you increase your potential for health and wellbeing and take your first steps on a journey of discovery towards a lifelong connection with the natural world.
Cuprins
A note on safety
January
Take a tree shower
Sounds of nature
Landscape navigation
Wild pot-pourri
February
Micro-pilgrimage
Valentines for the birds
Animal tracking
Home spa facial
March
Be out in a storm (or at least watch one)
Make a spring flower bouquet
Plant a nectar bar
Eat wild spring pesto
Spring wild weather activity:
Homemade reed diffusers
April
Plant something and watch it grow
Watch for the first swallows
Make nettle cordial
Foraged pakoras
May
Make daisy oil
Sleep in a hammock
Make a natural gratitude journal
Honour your feet
June
Make rose petal gin
Make elderflower champagne
Afternoon tea ceremony
Find a sit spot
Summer wild weather activity:
Make herbal gin bags
July
Get to water
Make mojito jellies
Savour a plant
Cloud watching
August
Go camping
Look at the stars
Sit by a fire
Swim in the sea
September
Wild herbal balms
Bountiful berries and the art of eating mindfully
Wild mocktails
Rose hip vinegar
Autumn wild weather activity:
Make a plaster print
October
Wild berry jelly
Make a bulb lasagne
Autumn light photography
Carve a pumpkin
November
Make something and burn it
Scrumped apple pies
Go on a night walk
Plant a tree (even indoors)
December
Christmas wreath walk
Bake bread on a skillet
See a sunrise
Know when enough is enough
Winter wild weather activity:
Make an ice glob
Further reading
Resources
Image credits
Index
Recenzii
This beautifully illustrated book promises to "get you out and about" with first steps towards a lifelong relationship with flora and fauna.
.includes a wide range of activities to help you connect with the wildness close to home.
Organised by month, this book's simple, seasonal activities open the door to nature in urban and suburban landscapes to help you learn how to de-stress and reconnect with the natural world on your doorstep.
Offers a plethora of ideas on how you too can reconnect with nature even if you live in a city.
Filled with 52 varied and inspiring activities illustrated with beautiful colour photographs, to get you out and about whatever the weather.
For both avid nature lovers and novice outdoorspeople, Urban Wild unlocks the beauty available right under our noses, no matter where we live.
With nature at their heart, [step-by-step activities] provide a combination of creative, culinary, herbal and mindful seasonal projects.
Organised by month, this book's simple, seasonal activities open the door to nature in urban and suburban landscapes to help you learn how to de-stress and reconnect with the natural world on your doorstep.
Caracteristici
Notă biografică
Helen Rook has worked to bring art and nature to people of all ages and abilities for more than twenty years providing varied opportunities from natural education and forest therapy to urban herbalism and home spas. She developed and runs an inner-city outdoor classroom in one of the most deprived areas of the UK. Helen is studying for a Masters in Positive Psychology, and she uses her knowledge to create natural experiences to support people learning to cope with stress and trauma.