Tag: <span>arrowleaf balsamroot</span>

First Foraging Run of Spring 2025, Passover, and Using Our Own Herbal Medicine

Here we are, the evening of Good Friday, the day we give thanks and express our gratitude for Jesus Christ choosing to take our sin upon Himself and carry it to the cross on our behalf, tearing in two the veil that separated man from God, because now the way …

Fir and Curly Dock Chocolate Chip Cookies

Not all recipe adaptations work out.  An attempt at replacing corn flour with curly dock seed in a gnochi recipe, failed to hold the dough together after the 6 hour rest period.  Considering all the original recipe was, was a cup of flour, a cup of corn flour, a pinch …

Fir and Curly Dock Cupcakes

So when I’m not planning advanced foraging workshops or signing up for craft or wellness fairs, apparently I am baking! Ashley wanted to know what a lemon loaf might taste like if we used Douglas Fir instead of lemon. The recipe in the Good Housekeeping Cookbook calls for eggs, and …

Curly Dock Chocolate Chip Cookies

Yes, I made chocolate chip cookies using curly dock seed flour! Of course there was more to it than that, when you learn to cook with wild provisions, there’s always more to it. The recipe I modified came from Detoxinista. I don’t have coconut sugar in the house, so I …

2024 Fair Season Ends With a Bang! Merry Christmas!

We just wrapped up our final major craft fair of the 2024 Fall and Christmas craft fair season! We were at Rustic Reel’s Reel Christmas Market which ran for two days on Saturday and Sunday, and being as it was fully outdoors under tents for both days, we dressed for …

Next Wellness Fair This Sunday, and Practical Foraging Thoughts

Well, it’s the eve of wellness fair weekend again. This time, the wellness fair is at a winery in South East Kelowna, at The Vibrant Vine on Sunday from 12pm to 5pm. I will be there offering my Biblical Natural Health Coaching along with my daughter selling her wildcrafted looseleaf …

Another Rant: Offloading The Need to Cope onto Herbal Psychotropics

It is a wonder as I get deeper into natural health, to observe people trying to find legal, safe (???), psychotropic drugs that they can repurpose for non-psychotropic purposes. I have never done drugs of any type in a recreational manner, let alone psychotropics such as those currently being studied …

When a Picture is Worth More than Just Words – Glycerine Tincture-Making

We have just successfully made a non-vanilla-bean vanilla extract!  We have another non-vanilla-bean-extract experiment going now as well with a different plant.  That plant, according to Edible and Medicinal Plants of Canada by Lonepine Publishing, is still used today to lend a vanilla flavour to sweets and such, so when …

A Tea Order and A Marathon Foraging Run – Reminder of Upcoming Foraging Workshops

Today’s foraging run is brought to you buy a custom tea request at the recent wellness fair, that was hoped to be a wild flavour version similar to Earl Grey. The purchaser liked the smell, and if the recipient likes the tea, we need to be ready for potential re-orders. …