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Is this wild lettuce?
Is this wild lettuce? If not, what is it? My wife and i have arthritis, hers is much worse than mine. Trying to find help for her pain instead of all the pills she takes.
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Lazy spring foraging in the pasture
We took a couple hours this afternoon to go through our pasture to forage. If spraying doesn't happen around our place tomorrow, we'll go out again & see what we can get. We have plenty of all of these right now because nobody is out on this piece of pasture just yet. We will be making a note of that...not until the…
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Calcium vinegar
Looking to make vinegars from native Michigan plants and anything else right now. @Torey What local (and not so local) plants do you recommend? I have the book “The Herbal Kitchen” by Kami McBride but it seems to be all difficult plants to grow. Thank you! —Christina
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Free meeting AHG: United Plant Savers Sanctuary May 15, 2023
Sanctuary Dreamers Calling all Land Tenders! Do you dream of Establishing a United Plant Savers Sanctuary? Join the conversation with Penelope Beaudrow. Penelope will go over what's happening in the sanctuary this spring and speak on a few of the at-risk/endangered plants that are now out. This meeting is open to the…
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Suggestions or recipes to use Hawthorn?
Living with 46 acres in Western New York brings us a lot of naturally grown medicinal plants, including tons of hawthorn bushes, yarrow, plantain, dandelion, red raspberry, and so many more. However, I have a difficult time finding different recipes using Hawthorn other than extract for heart disease/congestive heart…
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Sapping season
It looks like we could get a full two weeks of perfect sapping weather. Our maples are Manitoba maples. Our sap to syrup ratio is 40:1. We put in almost all of our spiles today. We ran out of buckets & lids. We are trying to figure out what we might have that can be fill in collection containers. Right now we have about 20…
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Medicinal properties of Spruce & Poplar buds
I am considering using fresh spruce needles in some medicinal blends. Then started to wonder what the medicinal properties are like in the dead winter here in our far north climate. Maybe someone has some experience in this field? Admin edit: Discussion title edited to include further discussion of medicinal poplar buds
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Traditional Cree Medicine
I found this site while looking for information on Balsam fir. The site has more information about other traditional medicines as well. You will also find a few recipes.
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Three Spruce, Fir, Pine & Juniper Berry Recipes
You can also find the ice cream recipe under Dairy Recipes where I've been putting interesting ice cream recipes!
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Natural Pine Soda
I will make this a part of my teaching foraging outing.
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A Prickly Friend: The Thistle
Yep, you can even eat that.
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Winter Foraging
I have read this before. It is a good reminder that foraging can be done year round, and a good refresher to read over the list. I want to do some plant foraging walks with our small homeschool group in different seasons. We are at the very beginning planning stages for activities right now, but this is certainly one that…
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Sea buckthorn- what do you do with berries and seeds?
My sea buckthorn My sea buckthorn (hippophae rhaminoides) bush has grown into a real beauty and this is the first year that I have so many berries. I have managed to obtain Friesdorfer Orange - a monoecious plant - the one that has male and female blossoms and I do not have to have two plants. Well the berries are there,…
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From the Almanac, How to prepare and cook acorns
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Hawthorn Ketchup Recipe?
I thought we had a recipe on TGN, but all I can find is a discussion. Does anyone have a recipe for this? Also, I've never prepared hawthorn berries before. How does one go about doing that?
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Silver Buffaloberry (Shepherdia argentea)
We have lots of these bushes in our area just into ravines.
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Foraging recipes
@torey This is roughly from your area of the world. There are so very many tasty sounding & beautiful foraging recipes found here.
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Grindelia - Gumweed
I have known for awhile that we had Grindelia growing in this area but I had never identified it before. We were out yesterday (to our local garlic festival) and on the way home, I noticed that some of the Yellow Salsify (it has become a very invasive weed here) was flowering again. Then I spotted what I thought looked…
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Bee Balm
The beautiful monarda. I can't wait to use the petals & leaves that I was privileged to harvest this year! https://www.herbalremediesadvice.org/bee-balm.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=linktree&utm_campaign=benefits+of+bee+balm
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Wild Spinach
Good article from Wren Everett on Insteading about Wild Spinach.
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Huito tree, fascinating!
We found this fruit in a "grape" pop. Our oldest daughter had also bought some prepared as a safe & temporary surface tattoo ink. It is mainly found in Peru, but can be found in Mexico too. Every part sounds useful/medicinal and the fruit is reported to be tasty. If only we could grow this here. Haha...it would certainly…
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Cracked wall pine pollen?
I was reading an email that listed the benefits of pine pollen. Sadly, my most easy to harvest source dried up just as it should have released much of its pollen. I suspect that's the effect of the spray. It would have been a heavy harvest as all the pollen thingys (yes, I know, a real herbalist term). Edit: ah...buds(!)…
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How much Equisetum Hyemale is considered therapeutic?
I have gathered that it should only be taken for 10 days at a time but I don’t know how much to take. I’m average in height and weight and I need the connective tissue support and strengthening for bones and nails.
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My new book! Medicinal Shrubs and Woody Vines of The American Southeast an Herbalist's Guide
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Wild Garlic
I have a huge patch of Wild Garlic. I would say 20 foot by 30 foot. Most of this I will let grow so that I have scrapes to harvest and use. But I did dig some up today. They are so mild when they are small like they are now. Do you harvest wild garlic and how do you use it?
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Interesting Article on Nettles
Check out the photo of the stingers. Beautiful in its way. Why you should embrace stinging nettles - BBC Future
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Candied Spruce Tips
This is part of spring foraging but I thought it deserved its own discussion. I got these Tik Tok links in an e-mail this morning from Wild Rose College (you don't have to be logged in to Tik Tok to view them). https://www.tiktok.com/@skwalwen_botanicals/video/7095593426204314886?_t=8SEF9JfkCQ9&_r=1…
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Spring Foraging
I'm sure it is long past this time for many of you, but here in Central BC, it is time for the early spring greens. Dandelions are just flowering and the greens are excellent. I went for a drive into the mountains yesterday on a search for fiddleheads. As there is still nearly 3 feet of snow in parts of the area we were…
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More Dandelion recipes 50 in all.
Enjoy. https://thelostherbs.com/50-recipes-using-dandelion/?vgo_ee=vXIQX7IZ3qdpWrlsso4u7g%3D%3D
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Foraging Calendars for North America! PDF
What a great resource! These are not free (nor should they be with the work that will have been put into them). Find which one suits your area. I think I will get one and continue to add any extra plants/herbs that might not be listed in my area if it is a printable calendar.
