Today we held a very successful, upbeat, fun, and informative late fall/early winter foraging workshop and trail tour. We chose a trail we haven’t been on before, in a new regional park in the area. To my surprise, a fair bit of ground-based foraging was still to be found to …
So our tiny mascots had more adventures this weekend. We just did a two-day craft fair and had some amusing, frustrating, head-scratching, and uplifting conversations over the course of the two-day event. We were set up under my daughter’s Ashtree Wildcrafting banner at this fair. We set up the booth …
Today’s blog article is going to be a bit different from what I often write, for three reasons: A) It is a clear example of how the spirit world can impact the physical world, B) It is a story of one way God answered prayer for healing, and C) It …
In July 2024, Mercola asked if Florida is headed toward a dengue fever outbreak. . . Since then, we have just watched as of Thanksgiving Weekend here in Canada, Hurricane Milton strike Florida. Originally as a Category 5, it downgraded to a cat 3 by the time it hit shore. …
We just capped off an amazing weekend at the Vernon Wellness Fair! Unapologetically showing up as Christians offering natural health via foraging wild foods and herbs is starting to reap rewards. We’ve been attending wellness fairs for just over a year now, not counting the nearly year-long ghosting we received …
It’s been a crazy end to the month of September! As of last week, we are finally DONE processing anything to do with chokecherry! The exception will be turning the large mason jars of syrup into jelly as the weeks go along. As noted in the last foraging update, we …
Antibiotics – the medical discovery that the modern world swooned over, has become as big a threat as those it was discovered to treat. Doctors saw this class of drug as a cure-all, or at the very least, a bandaid across a such a wide swath of minor conditions, that …
Sunday’s foraging run was about just two things, more rosehips, and yarrow. We could have grabbed so much more chokecherry, but that wasn’t going to happen. We’re tapped out with what we can process and store for this year. The trail we were on is frequented by other foragers and …
The summer foraging season has been a major whirlwind for us this year, but I think I’m starting to crawl out from under it. The tub of crushed chokecherry leaf used by Ashtree Wildcrafting as a base for several of the looseleaf teas, is largely full with two more trays …
Finally getting around to sharing how this week’s foraging run went, and current challenges and escapades. Foraging this week was on Sunday, and the intention was two-fold: get more chokecherry berry twigs with their leaves and berries, and get more goldenrod. A third goal was to get more hawthorn berry …
