Learn how to make an ultra-conditioning bar of all-natural Winter Spice Pine Soap to help moisturize your dry winter skin! With an amazing sweet-spicy evergreen scent it will be your new favorite seasonal bar! Be sure to share your love of soap making with your friends and family because this Winter Spice Pine Soap makes…
Forage
Foraging and wildcrafting for your own food and medicine is a great way to get outside and reap the benefits of being out in wild areas. It gives you access to some of the most nutrient rich and healing plants, all while getting some much needed exercise and fresh air. Foraging is good for your body as well as your mind and soul! I love teaching others about the benefits of wild food.
Learn about foraging through the seasons, with guides on fall foraging, winter foraging, and spring foraging. If you want to learn about wild mushrooms, then read about these 5 easy to identify edible mushrooms.
12 Best Books on Foraging and Wildcrafting
For beginning and more advanced foragers alike, it’s important to have some guidebooks on hand. I often get asked what my favorite foraging books are, and there are so many good ones to choose from! I’ve narrowed it down to what I think are the 12 best books about foraging and wildcrafting for you here….
Fir Needle Forest Chai for Respiratory Wellness
Sometimes herbal medicine is right in your own backyard, and you often don’t need to go much further than that. But if you venture out to the woods, be sure to collect some conifer needles, as they have benefits that not everyone knows about! Fir needles are especially nice, and can be made into a…
60+ Rose Hip Recipes for Food, Health, & Beauty
Rose hips are a powerhouse of an herb with a wide array of benefits to our health and beauty. Once you learn about how nutritious and packed full of antioxidants they are, you’ll be glad to know there are many uses for rose hip both in diet and skincare. Let’s discover over 60 rose hip…
70+ Elderberry Recipes & Remedies for Food & Health
It’s no secret that elderberries are a superfood with many undisputed health benefits! These tasty elderberry recipes will leave you with tons of ideas of how to use these immune-boosting wild berries. Wildcrafting Weeds If you want to learn more about the edible and medicinal weeds that surround us and how to use them, check…
Foraging St. John’s Wort + How to Make St. John’s Wort Oil & Salve
When the sunny yellow flowers of St. John’s wort start to appear then I know that summer is here! It is such an unassuming little plant that often grows along roadsides, but it is a powerful herbal ally. It is a great plant to know how to forage for, as it grows nearly everywhere and…
Sonoran Desert Foraging: What to Forage in Summer
While it may not seem like there is much to forage in the desert, there are quite a few edible and medicinal plants that have been used throughout history! Learn about Sonoran Desert foraging and what is available in the summer in this sparse but beautiful desert region. Dry barren land with cacti baking in…
How to Tap Trees and Make Syrup in Your Backyard
There’s not usually a whole lot to forage for at the end of winter, but there is something delicious hiding in many of the trees around us: sap which can be turned into syrup! Guest writer Meredith Skyer is going to show us how to tap trees and make syrup in your backyard! Have you…
30+ Conifer Needle Recipes: Drinks, Desserts, Syrups, Balms & More!
Evergreen conifers are amazing trees in many ways, but did you know that they are edible? Indeed they are, and they make very tasty cookies, drinks, syrups, balms, and more! Read on to learn about all the delicious recipes that you can make with foraged conifer needles. These conifer needle recipes are all you need!…
Reishi Mushroom Infused Red Wine with Rose Hips and Ashwagandha
This is a guest post by Spencre McGowan of the wonderful blog Gingertooth and Twine. She will be telling us all about her recipe for Reishi Red, a delicious infusion of reishi mushrooms and other herbs in red wine, from her new book Blotto Botany. Read more about Spencre at the end of this post….
