Forest Bathing With Beth

Summer arrives this Sunday—celebrate this new season with calm and quiet beside a stream and under the canopy… 🌞 💦 🍃

What hiking in Finland is really like! (Hint: fantastic!) 💚

Doing the happy dance while hiking around Karelia, Finland! 😁

Moose casserole, planked salmon, spruce tip panna cotta, Karelian pasties, blueberry crisp, licorice icecream, salmon soup, Rowan berry juice, and always sausages with great mustard to cook on a hike! Eating my way around Karelian, Finland…😋

Finnish spruce tip tea—just add almost-boiled water to a handful of freshly picked spruce tips, steep for 7 minutes, add a swirl of honey, sip and enjoy! Kippis! 🌲 🫖 🍯 😋 🇫🇮

Today, the Finnish sauna as the Finns do it, including honey on face, herbal soak for feet, and birch branch beating on back…just say awe! 🥵 🍯 🌿 🪵 🔥 😊

Tickled to begin a week of hiking in 4 National Parks in North Karelia, Finland, based out of Salmenkylä. Bears, berries, birches and forest bathing. Is it this connection with nature and relationship to the earth that makes Finns the happiest people in the world? I think so…stay tuned…

Gently down the stream on the Head and Black Rivers—nature as medicine indeed.

Celebrate World Migratory Bird Day and the calming benefits of being near the water this Saturday May 9th from 10:30 to 12:00 Noon at Spirit Catcher Park, Barrie. “Hope is the thing with feathers…” Pre-register at City of Barrie or my website . 🦢 🌊💚