Tag: <span>alfalfa</span>

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 …

Senior Health, Nutrition, and Your Pocketbook

Read two articles today on orthomolecular medicine and the elderly. One article was an 18 page paper on using nutrition, specifically vitamin supplements in high doses, to treat and sometimes reverse senility. Vit B3 (Niacin) in its form as nicotinic acid allowed one doctor in the early ’70’s, to reverse …

Wild Adventures Part 8: A new foraging season has begun!

Spring has finally sprung in the Okanagan after a long cold winter that lasted through to the end of March.  It took awhile for the plants to get going as a result, but once they did, this household made a major surprise discovery! Last November, we had to move yet …