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Monthly Archives: February 2011
Strange and Beautiful #3
Welcome to installment #3 of Strange and Beautiful an ongoing series of short photo essays featuring some of the strange and or beautiful things I find in my wanderings. Installment #3 is five photos of Eastern skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus) … Continue reading
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Tagged art, beautiful, ecology, hiking, nature, outdoors, photography, skunk cabbage, Strange, weather, woods
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Strange and Beautiful #2
Welcome to installment #2 of Strange and Beautiful an ongoing series of short photo essays featuring some of the strange and or beautiful things I find in my wanderings. Installment #2 is three photos of some unidentified fungus growing on … Continue reading
Strange and Beautiful #1
Welcome to installment #1 of Strange and Beautiful an ongoing series of short photo essays featuring some of the strange and or beautiful things I find in my wanderings. Installment #1 is five photos of some unidentified fungus growing on … Continue reading
The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times.
The Resilient Gardener by Carol Deppe, Chelsea Green Publishing 2010. Why would someone as passionate about wild food as I am choose a gardening book for their first book review? Well, when it comes to The Resilient Gardener, there are … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Gardening
Tagged Carol Deppe, Chelsea Green, ecology, food, food production, gardening, organic, resiliency, resilient gardener, self suficiency, staple foods, sustainable
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Beyond Walking Distance: Hiking near the Susquehanna.
So I’m Tired. Good tired. Went hiking near (and in) the Susquehanna river with a friend today. Most of my nature adventures happen within easy walking distance of my home, but I got to get away to a larger more … Continue reading
February Warm Spell: Two walks in the park.
After an early February primarily filled with snow and ice, we have hit a patch of warm weather here in Lancaster county. Each day seems a little nicer than the last, with temperatures in the 50s and 60s. I took … Continue reading
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Tagged dwarf hackberry, evening primrose, family, forage gardening, forest gardening, gathering seed, nature, photography, staghorn sumac, weather
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Foraging Highlights #1: Last year’s fruit harvest.
Other than eating a few wineberries as a kid, I have been foraging for over a year and a half now. Last year was my first full year seriously foraging, and I learned a whole lot by obsessively reading and … Continue reading
Posted in Foraging, Nature, Wild Food
Tagged black cherry, ecology, family, food, foraging, fruit, harvest, mayapple, nature, outdoors, raspberry, resiliency, self suficiency, simple living, sustainable, wild cherry, wild food, wineberry, woods
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Foraging in February: honestly mostly just observing nature.
One of the things people often say to me this time of year is “Have you been out foraging much? Probably not, right?”. Well, I really haven’t been doing too much foraging, but I do try to get out in … Continue reading
Posted in Foraging, Nature, Wild Food
Tagged anise root, basswood, ecology, february, food, foraging, fruit, gathering seed, ground bean, hackberry, honewort, lamb's quarters, multiflora rose, nature, outdoors, resiliency, rose hips, self suficiency, simple living, sustainable, sweet cicely, weather, wild food, winter, woods
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