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Harvesting Black Walnuts

Harvesting Black Walnuts

Harvesting black walnuts is enjoyable and well worth the effort. Black walnuts are very nutritious and delicious! This is a messy activity, so be sure to wear old clothes, old sneakers and cover your hands with gloves, unless you want to be dye-stained for several weeks. The tree is pictured above. Here’s a closeup of [...]

Edible Wild Mushrooms

As summer nights lengthen into autumn, the forests of the Catskill mountains in upstate New York fill with magical, mystical, medicinal, and edible wild mushrooms. “Toadstool” is a quaint name for the many mushrooms that spring forth between rains, while “fungi” is the more technical term. Fungi are plants, but plants without flowers, or roots, [...]

sheep sorrel

Recipe: Sheep Sorrel and Purslane Soup

Ingredients: Simmer the potatoes in the stock 20 minutes in a covered saucepan. Add the remaining ingredients except the dill and tofu and simmer 5 minutes more. Remove from the heat, add the tofu, garnish with the dill, and serve hot.

Wild Blackberries

Wild Edible Plants eCourse

The world of green right outside your door is calling… At the end of this 7-day ecourse, you will: Be able to Incorporate healthy wild foods into your diet. Save money on your regular food expenses. Have a collection of recommended resources to continue your studies Learn how to choose a local plant mentor! With [...]

Recipe: Pemmican

Pemmican: The Indigenous Sausage (from tape transcript) The Native People of the temperate and northern regions of America developed a high-energy fast food that is easily transportable and long-storing.  We know it as pemmican, or pimikan in the Algonquin languages.  The term is derived from pimii, the Cree-Chippewa word for fat. This is quite appropriate [...]

Nettle Recipe: Nettle Soup

Nettle Recipe: Nettle Soup

One of the most exciting things about late winter is that stinging nettles start to poke their heads up above the Earth. By early Spring, we harvest them regularly to dry for winter and to make delicious nettle recipes. The other day I taught a daylong class on nettles at Wilderness Awareness School. Believe it [...]

Recipe: Burdock Root Pickles

Burdock root is extremely nutritious! Fall is a wonderful time to harvest the roots from Burdock, Arctium lappa. Burdock root is extremely nutritious and a deep healer. It is a long-term immune system strengthener among many other things, which makes it a wonderful herb to use for the upcoming cold and flu season. My favorite [...]

Recipe: Dandelion Fritters

Recipe: Dandelion Fritters

Why do I love dandelion so much? You know, I could write a book on that. For now, let’s just say it’s another one of those amazingly delicious and nutritious herbs. It’s the plant that inspired me to study herbal medicine. So it MUST be an incredible herb! “If you want to take medicine, it [...]

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