Category: <span>Foraging</span>

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 …

Wildcrafted Tea Chat (or is that a coffee chat. . . ) Amazing Rendezvous and Summer Outlook

THAT was a weekend! We were at Creative Chaos in Vernon over the weekend, a three-day massive craft fair bringing vendors from across Canada! We were able to reconnect with a herbalist who got us started on our wildcrafted herbal journey 10 years ago on Canada Day. That had to …

Book, Fair, and Workshop Update

Time for an update! 2025 continues it’s crazy trajectory and we’ve now hit full throttle between attending fairs, prepping for fairs, foraging to catch up on ingredients we’d run out of, BUT. . . we’re starting to indeed catch up! Which is a good thing as we have Creative Chaos …

Foraging Escapades, Writing, and Workshops

We are a couple days away from the Arrowleaf Balsamroot Advanced Foraging Workshop on Saturday. Registration closed for this one back on May 3rd. The next upcoming Advanced Foraging Workshop is taking place June 28th, and that one will be covering making yummy foods with the flower buds of Canada …

Foraging, Fairs, Workshops, and Drawbacks of Social Media Reliance

Well that was a week! We foraged in two private property zones last Monday, then we hit the rail trail on Thursday not far from us. Both trips were for alfalfa first, gathering a few chokecherry leaves here and there, some curly dock, more yarrow, more desert parsley, etc. The …