Bucket List for June

Hi Reader,

If you missed the past months' Natural Living Bucket List, you can find it here: May Bucket List.

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Here is your seasonal Natural lifestyle inspiration dose for this month - now summer is officially starting!

June invites us outdoors to forage, garden, biking, hiking and enjoy the abundance of flowers and fresh herbs. This month’s natural living bucket list is filled with simple natural ways to enjoy the first true month of summer.

Tune in with nature

June is the official first summer month. The freshness of nature, blooming flowers, and the scent of the deep forest are most grounding this time. Tune in to the natural world and spend time in nature as much as you possibly can.

Foraging, fishing, collecting seashells, pine cones, or other fauna for nature crafts like natural wreaths, gathering wild flowers into a vase, or just to enjoy identifying plants (or bugs like we are into this year 🤭) with children.

Collect leaves and dry them between a book, to create beautiful natural decorations or your own herbarium book.

Make iced tea from scratch

Summer brings a need for some natural coolers. Making iced teas from scratch, you’ll skip all the additives, colorants, excess sugar, and other bad stuff, and you can focus on using the real ingredients like lemon balm, hibiscus, mint, lime juice, and honey.

Next week I’ll be sharing an Iced Vanilla Matcha Tea Latte recipe (with video), so wait for my letter if Matcha is (or might be) your thing. ♡

Try These Iced Tea Recipes

• ​Fresh mint and lime iced tea​
• ​Lemon balm white tea iced tea​
• ​Hibiscus and blueberry iced tea​

Or grab my free tea-making cheat sheet to start making your own iced tea recipes at home! (You can find it also in the free resources of the subscriber library, link and password you can find at the end of every letter.)

Water herbs

If you have already started your tea garden and are shaping it, remember to water your herbs often to see the growth. Use the herbs fresh for both hot teas and iced teas.

Later in the summer, I will be sharing some tips on harvesting and drying the herbs, so keep an eye on your inbox.

Forage fireweed

When nature is blooming, it is more than easy to forage plants that are growing happily and freely in the forest without any effort to actually grow them for harvest

Grab a basket with scissors and gloves if you need and head for a walk to find some fireweeds that grow throughout the summer.

Young stems of fireweed can be used like asparagus. Toss them in a pan and fry with butter, and grate some Parmigiano cheese on top.

Flowers of fireweed can be sprinkled on salads or frozen into decorative ice cubes for iced teas.

Leaves of fireweed can be used to make some foraged fireweed tea called Ivan Chai. I have been testing the oxidation process for Ivan Chai for a while and I am so exited to share the recipe and how-to guidance later this summer with you!

Ride bicycle wherever you can

Travel sustainably this summer and choose a bike over a car whenever you can. If you have a small child, explore nearby with bikes and a child bike trailer attached to your bike!

It is a simple way to move around to the forest or fish at a lake, and the child can even nap on the road.

Tend your garden

Use thrifted pots and repurpose wooden wine crates into a planter to maximise the growth of your kitchen garden. Grow potatoes in a bucket, use the cooled water from preparing nettles for stinging nettle pancakes to water tomatoes and bell peppers.

Sip your morning tea next to your plants, and let yourself enjoy the work you have made and get energy from the growth around you.

Use the moment of watering the plants in the evening as a wind-down ritual to calm yourself down mentally.

Gather flowers

Enjoy the growth season and the abundance of flowers. Gather wild flower bouquets, make juice from the lilac flowers, honey from dandelions, or create some simple flower wreaths.

For the summer solstice, make some Midsummer charms by gathering seven different flowers under the pillow to predict your future husband, as we Nordics do.

True story.

I have done that several times!

It is one of my favourite Nordic Midsummer traditions on the side of dancing in the nightless night on pyjamas.

Life is so much fun on summer time! So what goes on your June Bucket List? Hit the reply and share your Summer plans with me!

Every day makes a difference. ♡

Sonja

PS. Read the full post for more June vibes and ideas for natural ways to welcome summer time here.

Hi Sister, I'm Sonja

I’m a Nordic girl married to a Moroccan husband and mom to a curious little adventurer. After over a decade in fine dining, I left the busy restaurant life to embrace slower, more natural living. Now I help women simplify their routines with from-scratch recipes, natural wellness tips, and sustainable ways to create less waste and more contentment.

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