Use stinging nettle tea to make this delicious and health-beneficial nettle-infused lemonade. It’s a refreshing, sugar-free lemonade recipe that’s easy to make and is the perfect spring drink! Wildcrafting Weeds If you want to learn more about the edible and medicinal weeds that surround us and how to use them, check out my eBook: Wildcrafting…
Teas
There are many benefits to body and mind from drinking herbal tea, whether it is an infusion made from the flowers and herbs or a decoction made with the roots of plants.
We are sharing our best tea recipes that are remedies for when you're under the weather, such as Immune Boosting Herbal Tea Blend, and refreshing nutritive teas like White Clover Iced Tea. You can even find our herbal decoction for the most flavorful herbal caffeine-free coffee substitute, Roasted Dandelion Root Coffee.
Pine Needle Tea with Pine, Spruce or Fir
Making pine needle tea is one of the best – and easiest – ways to use foraged pine needles. This is a wonderful and simple way to use pine or other conifer needles like spruce or fir medicinally. Ease your mind and heal your body with this delicious conifer tea! What is Pine Needle Tea?…
Rose Hip Tea with Fresh or Dried Rose Hips
Rose hip tea is very easy to make with either fresh or dried rose hips. It has a lovely fruity and slightly tart taste and has immune-boosting properties. Warm up this season with this simple rose hip recipe! Rose Hip Tea Benefits Rose hips are the fruit of roses, and they appear beneath the flower…
How to Make Dandelion Tea
Make dandelion tea for a super simple way to access the power of these humble flowers. With a wide array of health benefits, this dandelion flower tea is the perfect way to enjoy spring to its fullest while also caring for yourself. This is one of the easiest dandelion recipes ever! Wildcrafting Weeds If you…
Immune Boosting Herbal Tea Blend
This immune-boosting herbal tea blend is the perfect natural remedy to have on hand for cold and flu season. It’s a simple herbal tea blend with immune boosting herbs like elderberry and rose hips. This recipe is so easy to make, not to mention delicious, and perfect for soothing a sore throat, easing cold and…
Medicinal Benefits of Hops + Hop Tea
Most of us have heard of hops because they are one of the main ingredients used in beer brewing. They give beer that classic bitter flavor, and in some varieties it can be quite pronounced. Since I love to make my own brews I’ve been curious about growing hops for a while now. Earlier this…
White Clover Iced Tea (recipe + uses)
White clover is almost ubiquitous in lawns and backyards, but most people don’t know that it’s both edible and medicinal. Red clover is known for having amazing medicinal benefits, but white clover is more readily available and is useful in its own right. One of the most simple and delicious ways to use the sweet…
Foraging for Pineapple Weed (Wild Chamomile) + Pineapple Weed Tea
One aspect about foraging that I love is when I discover a plant that I’ve seen for years, since childhood even, is edible and medicinal! This was the case with pineapple weed, also known as wild chamomile. When I learned several years ago that it can be used in the same way as its close…
Roasted Dandelion Root Coffee with Chicory Root & Cinnamon
{This post is sponsored by Mountain Rose Herbs} What if I told you that roasted dandelion root tasted almost exactly like coffee when brewed? Even more so when you add a pinch of roasted chicory root! I’ve heard this time and time again from people or read it on the internet, but I never actually…
Wildflower Herbal Infusion Tea
I love cooking with foraged ingredients, but I especially love it when I can do something fun with wildflowers (wildflower mead, anyone?) While the season for fresh wildflowers is generally pretty short, they are easy to dry on a drying screen and store for use throughout the year. Dried edible flowers are perfect for using…
