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smoothie fodder
I went out before breakfast this morning and gathered a bunch of random stuff to put in a smoothie. My assortment included: a lone squash blossom, dandelion flowers, red and white clover flowers, plantain, celery leaves, wood sorrel and quite a few Indian strawberries. I incorporated them into a smoothie with more…
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PURSLANE: HEALTH BENEFITS AND RECIPES
Good article on Purslane: PURSLANE: HEALTH BENEFITS AND RECIPES A WEED WORTH KEEPING By Celeste Longacre April 29, 2020 Jacopo Ventura/Getty Images Purslane, or Portulaca oleracea, is a garden weed that is edible and has many health benefits. Find out the benefits of the purslane plant here, and get a purslane recipe!…
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COMMON MILKWEED: USES AND NATURAL REMEDIES
Good article on Milkweed: LEARN ABOUT MILKWEED—AN IMPORTANT NATIVE PLANT! By George and Becky Lohmiller May 19, 2020 d has a long history as a natural remedy—and has many other uses, too! Plus, milkweed is the food of our beautiful monarch butterflies. Learn about this surprisingly useful native plant. Common…
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Goutweed/Bishop's Weed/Snow on the Mountain--need help organically eradicating
My neighbor planted this voracious ground cover about 10 years ago and it's literally taken over about 20% of my backyard where it abuts the fence between our properties. I had a high schooler dig it all up the second or third year it invaded, but I didn't know you have to literally almost sift the soil to remove ALL root…
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topical jewelweed and plantain tincture (?) for poison ivy
Does anyone have the recipe for this from the old Bulk Herb Store website? I think it was just jewelweed, plantain and alcohol. The new owners of the Bulk Herb Store don't seem to have any of the old recipes up. I looked online but couldn't find quite was I was looking for. We mainly used this prophlylactically when we…
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QUESTION: Live Horsetail Source?
If anyone remembers where to get 'horsetail' plant I would sure appreciate you joggling my memory. About 4 months or so ago there was a conversation about that and I found a company that a few others have purchased from that I want to check for purchase next week, but cannot remember who they are..would sure save me having…
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Benefits & Use of Mullein: Yarrow Willard
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Speaking of the dangers of foraging...
Here is something I wrote while back, that I apparently forgot to share with the group... A Warning On Wild Foods I hate to post any thing negative this early on in the blog, but I think I really should issue a warning. Harvesting wild food can be dangerous, both physically and legally. Although this blog will not be…
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Staying safe while wild crafting
There have been a lot of postings about not picking/foraging/wild crafting near farmers fields and we do have to be careful but a lot of our local farmers are going back to NO SPRAYING. Talk to your local guys and see. But know that some of the seeds have been coated in bug/mold killer so that is like spraying. They will…
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Cleavers pesto
Where I live we're now in the very short cleavers season. Fresh cleavers make very nice tea & juice, but don't dry well. I do make tincture & today I started some cleavers infused oil. And new discovery - cleavers pesto! If you have cleavers growing where you live, just use your favorite pesto recipe with cleavers as the…
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Purslane
I enjoyed this article about purslane. I have some growing in my yard, but I'm never quite sure what to do with it. I'll be saving this article for later when the purslane gets going! https://thegrownetwork.com/purslane-omega-3/
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Ethnobotany resource
I did not realize that the U.S. Forest Service has a whole section devoted to ethnobotany! Clicking on the image downloads one with the plants named, and uses given, and you can read more about quite a few topics. Seems pretty good.
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Dandelion
Can anyone tell me what is happening with this dandelion? I’ve never seen this before...
