Wild Harvests: Rosehips and Sloes

In this film, Fi recommends using dog rose hips for making roseship tea, a delicious drink full of Vitamin C and the scent of Autumn. We then take a look at the blackthorn's shockingly sour sloeberries, which can be transformed into (surely?!) everyone's easy homemade favourite - sloe gin!
Our guide for the Wild Harvests series, Fi Martynoga, is an expert forager and writer, living in the Scottish Borders. She has put together a most wonderful book called Scotland's Wild Harvests, and is a writer for Reforesting Scotland magazine, as well as being involved with Carrifran Wildwood (which I am invited to make a film about next year when they celebrate 20 years of success!).
A film for woodlandsTV by Jemma Cholawo, www.jemmacholawo.com

[@bellslinki]

Very good video

[@janefoster8117]

What a lovely lady. Thank you!

[@antonymackin]

What a delightful lady.

[@danhill6333]

A friend of mine there in the UK made me some exquisite rosehip vodka from fresh rosehips. I tried making it back here in the states from dried rosehips and it wasn't the same. More of a leathery/smoky flavor versus the flowery flavor of that made from fresh. Fresh rosehips seem impossible to find here. Thanks for the video. Interesting historical facts.

[@mountainviewturning5319]

Wow great video 👍

[@geraldinegregory.1803]

How cruel, showing me a lovely glass of sloe gin on a freezing cold day (inside and out!) -- and then I couldn't drink it through my mobile phone!!!!!😟😀

[@milkteaalliance1748]

Nice video but may I mention that heat deactivates the vit c. So only raw picked is medicine.

[@joegrande4848]

Can you grow blackthorn in American soil?