Edible mushrooms are one of the most exciting things to learn how to forage, but it can be an intimidating and sometimes dangerous practice. These easy-to-identify edible mushrooms are a safe place to start your wild mushroom journey! Wildcrafting Weeds If you want to learn more about the edible and medicinal weeds that surround us…
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Learn the basics and get started with healthy, seasonal, simple living. Discover the DIY tutorials that will help you master any of the recipes you'll find on Grow, Forage, Cook, Ferment.
Basics like mastering the easy-to-identify edible mushrooms or brewing your first gallon of mead. Grab a basket and head out to forage in the spring, start an herb garden and plant a simple herb like mint, and once you're harvesting herbs, learn to make an herbal salve.
10 Reasons to Grow Calendula for Your Garden, Food, and Health
Calendula is a flower that everyone should have in their yard, for multiple reasons. First and foremost, it’s beautiful! It’s edible, easy to grow, and readily reseeds itself year after year. It’s also a powerful medicinal, and is one of the top herbs that I would highly recommend everyone have on hand. Here are 10…
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. Wildcrafting Weeds If you want to learn more…
Fermented Honey Cranberries
These honey fermented cranberries are a healthy, colorful, and delicious fermented recipe that is perfect for your Thanksgiving or holiday dinner. Fermented honey cranberries are made from nourishing real food ingredients, and are a wonderful recipe for gut health. Fermenting Cranberries in Honey It’s amazing to me how easy fermenting in honey is! I’ve done…
Fermented Honey Garlic
This fermented honey garlic is the perfect thing to make to boost your immune system! Both honey and garlic have strong medicinal benefits, so you’ll want to have this delicious home remedy on hand for cold and flu season. Fermenting Garlic in Honey I’m really excited to share this post with you! Fermented honey garlic…
How to Make a Gallon of Mead: A Simple Mead Recipe
You may have heard of mead before or maybe you haven’t, but one image that always seems to come to mind when mead is mentioned is Vikings drinking their grog. I don’t know a whole lot about Vikings, but I do know a bit about mead! Mead is a fermented honey and water mixture, some…
What to Forage in Spring: 20 Edible and Medicinal Plants and Fungi
Spring is the season of new beginnings and new growth. As the temperature starts to warm up and everything begins to thaw from the winter, spring foraging options increase! This is the time of year for fresh salad greens, tasty spring flowers and shoots, medicinal plants, and a few edible mushrooms. This list of what…
10 Reasons to Grow Mint (Without Fear)
Mint has a bad reputation for taking over the garden, for good reason. But, there are many reasons to grow mint in your backyard without fear! Healing Kitchen Herbs eBook Did you know that most of the herbs you use in your kitchen also have medicinal uses? My eBook Healing Kitchen Herbs: 12 Common Herbs…
Chickweed Pesto: Wild Greens Superfood Recipe
Foraging is one of the most rewarding things that you can do, especially when you find a huge patch of a highly nutritious plant such as chickweed. While it’s always fun to find and identify a wild edible plant here and there, it can be a rare occasion to be able to harvest enough to…
How to Make Soap For Beginners + Calendula Soap Recipe
I’m going to say right now that I am no expert when it comes to making homemade soap. In fact, what you will see in this post is how to make soap for beginners. This is because I am also very much a beginner! The benefit from learning from a soap making newbie like me…
