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A quick update: Wineberries, Milkweed, and Evening Primrose.
It has been a while since I posted anything, so here is a quick update on some of the foraging and related activities that I have been doing. After a disappointing harvest last year, I managed to gather 4 or … Continue reading
Posted in Foraging, Nature, Uncategorized, Wild Food
Tagged Asclepias syriaca, common milkweed, ecology, edible flowers, evening primrose, food, food production, forage gardening, foraging, forest gardening, fruit, gardening, hunter gatherer, nature, Oenothera Biennis, outdoors, resiliency, Rubus phoenicolasius, self suficiency, simple living, staghorn sumac, sustainable, wild food, wineberry
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Enduring Seeds: Native American Agriculture and Wild Plant Conservation.
Enduring Seeds by Gary Paul Nabhan, University of Arizona Press 2002. I just finished reading this, and had to review it. I got this from the library thinking that I might be able to glean some good information from it. … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Gardening
Tagged agriculture, ecology, food, food production, forage gardening, foraging, gardening, Gary Paul Nabhan, gathering seed, hunter gatherer, indigenous culture, native american culture, native seed, nature, organic, outdoors, resiliency, self suficiency, staple foods, sustainable, traditional farming
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Pawpaw Flowers and Other Treasures.
This past Saturday I went hiking with a friend. We looked for morels, but didn’t find any. We did find plenty of other wonderful woodland delights. There were flowers blooming on pawpaw trees both along the main trail, and in … Continue reading
Posted in Foraging, Nature, Wild Food
Tagged asarum canadense, asimina triloba, ecology, family, flowers, food, food production, forage gardening, foraging, forest gardening, fruit, hiking, hunter gatherer, nature, outdoors, pawpaw, resiliency, sassafras, sassafras albidum, self suficiency, simple living, wild flowers, wild food, wild ginger, woods
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Two Edible Trees.
There is something very different (at least to me) about foraging from trees and shrubs versus ground cover plants. I can’t fully put my finger on it, but picking from a tree just feels more primal to me in some … Continue reading
Posted in Foraging, Nature, Wild Food
Tagged basswood, Cercis canadensis, eastern redbud, eat flowers, eat leaves, ecology, edible flowers, edible leaves, edible trees, food, forage gardening, foraging, forest gardening, hunter gatherer, linden, nature, outdoors, redbud, redbud tree, resiliency, self suficiency, simple living, sustainable, tilia, wild food, woods
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Bloodroot Flowers, plant associations, and other pleasures.
Last summer I identified bloodroot as the plants were on their way out. They aren’t edible, but do have some medicinal uses. I think that they are another example of how our native woodland plants are amazingly beautiful and full … Continue reading
Posted in Foraging, Nature, Wild Food
Tagged Alliaria petiolata, Amelanchier, Bloodroot, Cryptotaenia canadensis, ecology, Erythronium, family, food, forage gardening, foraging, forest gardening, fruit, garlic mustard, honewort, hunter gatherer, juneberry, mayapple, nature, outdoors, Podophyllum peltatum, Polygonatum biflorum, resiliency, Sanguinaria canadensis, self suficiency, Serviceberry, shadbush, simple living, solomon’s seal, sustainable, trout lily, Viola, Violets, wild food, woods
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Spring: A Fast Paced Forest Floor.
Spring is in full swing here. Plants that had been showing slight signs of life, are bursting forth so rapidly that you could miss an entire stage of growth in less than a day. The spring beauty plants that I … Continue reading
Posted in Foraging, Nature, Wild Food
Tagged Claytonia virginica, ecology, fiddlehead, food, forage gardening, foraging, Lindera benzoin, Matteucia struthiopteris, mayapple, nature, ostrich fern, outdoors, Podophyllum peltatum, Polygonatum biflorum, resiliency, self suficiency, simple living, solomon's seal, spice bush, spring beauty, wild food, woods
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A minimal forage garden, and garlic sprouting.
I transplanted a staghorn sumac tree and an evening primrose plant into a large pot today. I guess that is about as small a forage garden as one could create. What is a forage garden? I use the term to … Continue reading
Posted in Foraging, Gardening, Nature, Wild Food
Tagged evening primrose, family, food, food production, forage gardening, forest gardening, gardening, garlic, nature, organic, photography, self suficiency, staghorn sumac, sustainable, woods
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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
Posted in Nature
Tagged dwarf hackberry, evening primrose, family, forage gardening, forest gardening, gathering seed, nature, photography, staghorn sumac, weather
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