Tag: <span>pine</span>

Addressing Commonly-Taught Misunderstandings of the Anti-Bacterial Nature of Wood

In the realm of commonly-held but not entirely accurate understandings around food safety, the discussion of which is safest to use in the kitchen, be it glass, plastic, silicon, steel, or wood, is apparently a very contested subject. Mainstream anti-bacterial teaching holds that plastic is safer than wood, that steel …

Wild-herbed Ricotta Cheese

What do you do with soured milk? Make cheese!!! I typically make my own cheese salsa dip (recipe near bottom of this post) these days, but for some time now, I’ve been wanting to make a batch of wild-herbed ricotta. I was making my son’s Caesar salad dressing this morning …

Successful Winter Foraging Trail Tour! See Pics Inside

Today’s winter foraging run was a smashing success! In addition to being requested to do a winter foraging trail tour, we had to get a few things ourselves due to certain teas selling rather well over the fall craft/Christmas fair season. Those items were fir needles, lichen, and fir resin. …

Late Fall/Winter Foraging Workshop/Trail Tour Fun and Discoveries! Smiles All Around!

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 …

Drowning in Barn Foraging and Late Summer Forecast

I’ll show pictures here to prove it!  The sand patch we use as an exercise ring for Bella, has threatened to overgrow in Lamb’s Quarters this summer! This was how that patch looked in the fall. The hint of green in the foreground is now quite a thick patch of …

Forage Processing Day and a Bread Experiment Brewing

Today being Thursday, it is my processing day of the week, not Tuesday, which this week was an emergency attempt to make space for Monday’s foraging run. I’m making progress. I thought two trays of catnip were dry, but it turns out only 90% dry. They are now mostly crushed …

Building Defenses Against Henipavirus and other RNA Viruses Such as Measles

I hope by the time you see this article, that you’ve had a chance to read through the background information for it. From the myriad quotes in that article, we can ascertain that several body systems need active support, and if any of them are currently not healthy, to be …

Wild Adventures Part 7: Drinkable Salads

They come in all shapes and sizes.  Some come with attitude, some come placidly.  But ALL are at the mercy of critters, birds, and now US!  Yes, the wild adventures continue as we realize summer is turning to fall in our neck of the woods, and we have to consider …