Tag: <span>plantain</span>

Conifer Amusement and Syrup Experiments

Brought home some very “fat” green fir cones from the barn last night! By “fat”, I mean literally dripping with sap, using the term the same way very sappy wood is known as “fat”. The tree that we got them from not only was very generous in popping them off …

Foraging Workshops and Our Own Foraging Adventures, Lots of Hiking This Weekend!

Slowly but surely, the foraging workshops are happening. Thanks to one lady offering several dates that worked for her, another lady requested a workshop last minute, contacting me on the Friday evening ahead of what would become a whirlwind day this past Sunday. Both women attended the workshop Sunday morning, …

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 …

Gut Mucous a Marker of Health, and the Plants that Aid in Maintaining it

Congratulations to the local university in discovering a way to test intestinal mucous without invasive procedures to the patient. However, simply seeing mucous in the stool with the naked eye, no microscope required, can be an indication of what is going on in the gut. “MUC2 is like the silent …

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 …

Berry Season Has Arrived! Finally!

Yes, finally!  We now have Oregon grape gracing our wild salads and it has been SO missed!  This week, we began bringing home chokecherry, a month later than it’s supposed to show up.  In fact, many trees still haven’t ripened yet.  We have two strains of chokecherry in the valley, …

Wild Adventures Part 1 – Edible Weeds!

It all started innocently enough. . . my daughter’s horse comes down with rain-rot on occasion and unless we want to pump her full of dewormer constantly, we had to come up with alternative methods to kill the fungal infection.  Last year we had some success directly applying in alternating …