Category: <span>Foraging</span>

Foraging Updates, Fall Fair Prep, Fall Harvest Observations and a Safety PSA!

The smell of rosehips wafts through the house, while flint corn hangs in corners and across eaves, curing. The crockpot outside is on it’s second round of heat-treating chokecherry berries while the first round has been mashed and sits in a hanging cloth over a bowl. Two of these three …

Happy Dance and Foraging Escapades

Doing an internal happy dance over here! I don’t dance, but in my head I am, or maybe if you see me in person, it might look like the happy little gerbil bop they do when they’re excited over something (daughter used to keep gerbils, we may have picked up …

Foraging: Novelty vs practicality

Where we live, the idea of foraging is often seen as a hobby for those who can afford all the gadgety gear that tends to accompany hobbyist ideals. Some have even written books about this, literally filled with every gadget under the sun to make your outdoor adventure as enjoyable …

Chokecherry Oddities, Workshops, and 2025 Fall Forecast

Found this little hitch hiker in one of our bags of chokecherries this morning. Apparently it came home with us yesterday after a foraging run. That shell is translucent. We carefully snapped off the leaf from it’s stem and placed the little one in a safer place. We use the …

Wholefood as Medicine That Might Grow Outside Your Front Door

When you stop by my table at a craft fair or wellness fair, you may hear me greet you with this, particularly if you’ve just picked up my brochure, or commented on my business title: “I offer Biblical Natural Health Coaching, with a focus on wholefood as medicine that might …

Creation Worships Creator God

I went to bed last night, wrapping up an effort to turn God Grants Us Knowledge of His Creation, into a small booklet. This morning, I wake up singing First Call’s song, O Sifuni Mungu! How cool it’s been in the years since this was first recorded (1987), that scientists …

End of July Update: Foraging, markets, textbook, and Fall Calendar

Looking back over July, it has been quite the month! We were at the Fintry Bat Festival and a couple mini markets as well. The mini-markets outdid themselves in the sales we made. Just because it’s small, doesn’t mean it isn’t worth one’s time, and these two did not disappoint …

Happy Celebration Week! And News of Our Own Too!

Happy Canada Day (July 1st) to my Canadian readers, and Happy Independence Day (July 4th) to my US readers!  Here at home, we spent Canada Day more or less in recovery mode after how June went.  Not that June was bad, but it was incredibly busy between several large fairs, …

Foraging, Tea Sales, and Long-term Conundrum

Sitting here exhausted, but very pleased with today’s foraging run! We visited two zones today, both public access, and brought home over 20 pounds of foraged herb! Three of those herbs are integral to the tea business: nettle, alfalfa, and catnip. Of those three, the alfalfa is now closest to …