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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 …

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 …

Legalities of Foraging in BC, Canada

A recent article published on Castanet, a local news site, erroneously has claimed that it is illegal to dig up Arrowleaf Balsamroot on crown land here in BC. When I asked for sources, they sent me this link, where I immediately noticed the reporter’s error: Collection 2 (1) Subject to …

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 …

2025 Spring Foraging VS Spring Craft and Wellness Fairs!

We have Impact! Or is that Lift-off?!! The Great Collision has occurred and Ashley felt I should be alerting you to the potential fall-out. You see. . . It’s the beginning of April, and plants are growing again, some more quickly than others, but growing just the same.  Spring markets …

Flea Market Amazement, and Spring Outlook

So today was our third Sunday at the Rutland flea market, and a prayer partner is showing up each morning to say hi. The first day, he bought a tea and said to share it with others, and left us a tip. Last Sunday, he gave us a gift to …