Articles related to "Edible Wild Plants"



Journal of the Green
Keeping a garden and foraging journal will not only provide a record of the seasons, but help you be more efficient.
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Wild Roses of North America
Wild roses are endemic to North America. Both native and introduced species thrive in our temperate climate, making them a significant part of our landscape and culture.
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A Springtime Supper
An invitation to a celebration of Spring! Recipes for Creamed Sorrel Soup, Springtime Salad, and Dandelion Quiche.
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Autumn Makes Spring
Every garden task right now marries an ending to a promised beginning. Recipes for Mullein Tea and Autumn Vegetable Stew
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City Herbs, Part One: Mugwort
The herbs and edible plants you've been seeking are growing on your doorstep--grab a field guide, and step outside! The first article in City Herbs focuses on Mugwort, Artemisia vulgaris.
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Street Corners, Dandelions, and Blackberry Hill
Thoughts on growing up in the city loving the wild, and on finding garden space in an urban environment. Recipes for Great-Grandma's Dandelion Greens, Wild Berry Jam, Dandy Beer, Brambleberry Cordial
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Sumac lemonade
Along the edge of every meadow stands and army of staghorn sumac. "You can make a drink like lemonade from their berries," I told my childhood friends. But like so many things put off until tomorrow, I never did. Until today.
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Summer's Bounty
The wealth of Summer is in the abundance of wild and cultivated foods that are ready to harvest. Share the wealth!
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Foraging New England by Tom Seymour
Get ready for the great wild food foraging available in Spring by reading this Foraging New England by Tom Seymour as preparation.
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Ready for Spring
If you've got a case of late winter gardener's and forager's blues, here are some projects and harvests to cure what ails you.
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The trees are calling for rain
I was momentarily jealous of my friend's ability to read the maple leaves in downtown Toronto. My family was too long removed from the land to pass down this kind of folk wisdom.
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Wild Foods Around The Homestead
Books related to wild edible foods
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Australian Aboriginal Native Plant Use
The Australian aborigines have traditionally used native plants for many things; uses of plants included food, medicine, tools, weapons, food utensils and art objects.
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Cooking with Edible Plants
Planning an adventurous dinner with wild greens is easy. With a little initiative, luck and a good field guide you can save money and eat healthy for less.
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Edible Weeds! Local, Free & Nutritious
Weeds are not the enemy. Rather, they provide solutions to global hunger, rising food costs, escalating malnutrition and other maladies of modern living.
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How To Forage Safely
By using common sense when foraging, you can save yourself much discomfort, or even death.
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Pistol River Farm - Springtime Mushroom Recipes from Oregon
Fresh mushroom recipes from Oregon's Pistol River Mushroom Farm for your spring meals.
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Pueblo Indian Crops and Gardens
The Indian Tribes of the Pueblo Province of New Mexico traditionally planted their own crops and made use of native, wild plants, using them for both food and medicine.
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Angel Valley Farm - Springtime Mushroom Recipe from Oregon
Fresh mushrooms and recipes from Oregon's Angel Valley Farm for your spring meals.
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Check Out Chickweed: Weight Loss and More!
Interested in weight loss? This incredibly common herb is suprisingly beneficial in the nutritional, medicinal and metabolic sense. Read on to find out how it can help you....
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Good Eats - Purslane
Purslane, another incredible edible weed
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Signs of Spring!
Ways to get this year's garden and harvest started for little or no money. Forager's Calendar - what is ready to harvest now. Recipes for stocking up on field garlic, greek garlic and potato dip, and orpine relish.
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Something from Nothing: Using Scraps and Leftovers
A heel of bread, a rind of cheese, the water you cooked your potatoes in last night...These scraps and leftovers may sound more like trash than treasure, but they are ingredients in some of my favorite recipes.
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Survival's Source: Rediscovering the Green
Beans don't come from the supermarket, and survival isn't really about how not to get lost on the subway! Foraging and gardening in the city restore our connection to what really keeps us alive.
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Saving the Weeds: A Lunch in the Community Gardens
During a community garden clean up, I host a "weed walk", serve wild foods, and encourage stewardship. Recipes for Wild Seed Crackers, Melilot Cheese Dip, Anytime Tea, and Japanese Knotweed Bread.
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The Frugal Feast
Eating great food for cheap; bringing common sense back to the dinner table.
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The Yuma Indians Get Revenge
It started out peaceably enough--the Yumas wanted to set up a trade relationship with the Spanish. But as with most other relationships between Indians and Europeans, it ended badly. The Yumas would only take so much before they exacted revenge on the Spanish.
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Early Weeds
Part of gardening is dealing with "weeds". A weed, by definition is "a plant growing where it is not wanted". However, there are certain plants that few want to have around. In my USDA zone 7 Maryland garden, I consider some of these bad guys "early" or cool season weeds. Maybe you have some of these, too.
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