These mushroom books for kids are my favorite and I’d love to share them with you! Mushrooms are a popular subject these days, and they are a great thing for kids to learn about. Whether you are homeschooling or just want to read more about mushrooms with your kids, these books are the perfect addition!…
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.
Foraging Chanterelle Mushrooms: Identification & Look-alikes
Chanterelle mushrooms are easy to identify and fun to forage for! They are delicious and a culinary treat to find in the wild. Learn how to identify chanterelle mushrooms, where to forage for them, and my favorite ways to cook with this very special edible wild mushroom. Let’s go foraging for chanterelle mushrooms! Foraging…
Foraging for Wild Violets: an edible early spring flower
Wild violets are edible, have herbal uses, and come up in late winter or early spring. Foraging for wild violets is easy, as they grow almost everywhere! Wild violets are a super useful flower, and easy to spot! Learn how to identify and forage for wild violets, and the many ways to use them in…
Foraging Yarrow: Identification, Look-alikes, and Uses
Yarrow is an amazing wild-growing edible and herbal plant that is very common. Here is everything you need to know about foraging yarrow, a powerful plant you might have growing in your own backyard! Foraging for Yarrow Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) is a flowering perennial plant in the Asteraceae family, which is a very large family…
Chickweed Foraging: Identification, Look-alikes, and Uses
Chickweed is a highly nutritious edible and useful herbal weed that grows nearly everywhere. Foraging for chickweed is easy, and it may even be growing in your backyard! Read more to learn how to identify and use chickweed. Foraging for Chickweed Ever since I’ve been a wild food forager I’ve always known about chickweed, but…
Conifer Infused Oil for Body & Mind: with Pine, Spruce, or Fir Needles
{This post is sponsored by Ball® Fresh Preserving} Make this conifer infused oil this winter season using foraged conifer needles! Most conifer needles can be used such as pine, spruce, or fir. This conifer infused oil with cinnamon is great for body care and it also has some aromatherapy benefits. It smells absolutely amazing! Herbal…
What to Forage in Winter: 30+ Edible and Medicinal Plants and Fungi
Winter foraging may seem difficult, but there are actually quite a few things that you may find. Learn about what to forage in winter! I will go over more than 30 edible and medicinal trees, nuts, berries, leaves, roots, lichens, mushrooms, and seaweed to forage in winter. Winter Foraging: Edible and Medicinal Plants and Fungi…
Foraging Juniper Berries for Food and Medicine
Juniper berries are commonly known as being a spice or being the flavoring for gin, but they have many other uses as well! Foraging for juniper berries is easy as juniper trees are fairly common. Learn more about foraging juniper berries and how to use them for food and medicine! Foraging Juniper Trees & Berries…
Foraging Rose Hips & Wild Rose: Identification, Harvesting, & Uses
Fall is one of my favorite times for gathering wild food and medicine, and foraging rose hips has a lot to do with that! Wild rose and rose hips are foraged at different times of the year, with rose hip season beginning in the autumn. This post will look at both the flowers and the…
Foraging for Elderberries & Elderflowers: Identification, Look-alikes, & Uses
Well, the season is now upon us… what season, do you ask? Elderberry season! This extremely important wild plant is edible and has wonderful herbal properties. It starts getting ripe berries any time from July to September, depending on your specific location and elevation. Before the berries, however, come the flowers, which are an amazing…
