A couple of hundred years ago the average Briton had limited access to some of the treats that nature's pantry could provide, but it must have been great to wait with anticipation for the seasons to change.
Honey, strawberries, sloes, blackberries, hazelnuts etc, together with all the various sites, smells and sounds that came and went throughout the year, must have left them with something to look forward to almost on a week-by-week basis.
Nowadays, you can buy everything in the supermarket almost all year round and many people's big events boil down to just their summer holiday and Christmas.
As a result I think it's great that the tree council are promoting things like 'Seed Gathering Sunday'.
http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/ne...1054&Itemid=43
This is the sort of thing that would have been a common tradition in almost every village in the British Isles in the past, but has since been lost out to the 50/60 hour week.
Normally, I'm not too keen on 'dedicated' days and weeks as most of them seem to have been hijacked by the media men as yet another way to get us to eat more curry or buy life insurance.
So in an attempt to get some of these great traditions (and new ones) back into the public eye and give people a good excuse to go outdoors, we're going to build a new part of the site that's dedicated to the some of the lost events of the wildlife calendar.
Stay tuned for more info soon.