Tag: <span>vinegar</span>

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 …

Macerated Aromatic Oil and Scented Lies

This week, we’ve been very busy foraging around the barn property each evening. Coming home with more purple deadnettle, yarrow, discovered quite a bit of desert parsley we need to grab, and began picking arrowleaf balsomroot flowers for Ashley’s aromatic oil by maceration experiment. Sidenote:  We are planning Foraging Workshops …

Herbal Treatments of Smallpox Through the Years

The Nigerian research link in my first smallpox article, sent me on a very useful encyclopedic bunny trail that ties right back into the “new” threat on the immediate horizon, with 2 confirmed and potentially 20 more cases of monkey pox in Quebec, across the country from me (I live …