Help us record hazel tree flowers this winter! 🌳 🌰 Hazel catkins are the male flowers of the #HazelTree. They’re a fluffy sign of a woodland in mid-winter and the first step towards a hazelnut crop, but did you know they can also help us track the impacts of weather and climate change on #wildlife? 🌡️ The timing of hazel flowering events in the UK is temperature dependent and is influenced by winter temperatures in December to February. 📈 According to the #StateOfUKClimate report, hazel flow

An unexpected winter wild food - hazel catkins! Did you know that hazelnuts are not the only edible prize from hazel trees!? This is also a tree that gives in winter and early spring in the form of its male flowers called catkins. These are edible, highly nutritious and can be used in a few different ways, a couple of which I cover in this video! #wildfood #foraging #bushcraft #connecttonature | The Forager Within