eat your weeds
Rose and Peony Flower Infused Honey
Today is a perfect May day. I woke up and made coffee, opened the front door, and walked onto the front porch only to be...
Garlic Mustard Pesto Recipe – guilt-free foraging
Garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata) is out and about in my corner of North Carolina. This early summertime plant is lush, green, and easy to pull...
Book Review: Claire Goes Foraging
Independent authors and artists who are creating and publishing their own works are awesome! I've got a special book and author to share with you...
Kudzu Flower & Muscadine Wine
I went foraging in downtown Asheville, right smack dab in the middle of the city. Normally, urban foraging isn't my favorite way to gather edible...
Goldenrod and Ginger Wine – One Gallon Recipe
I'm a fan of weeds and wine, as you well may know. I'm particularly a fan of foraging wild weeds and invasive plants for herbal...
Honeysuckle Wine: One Gallon Recipe
Honeysuckle has been one of my favorite flower friends since I was but a wee pixie. There was a special bush, an old-growth clump of...
Bees: More Than Honey
What's the buzz? When you are planning your garden for the upcoming spring season, don't forget to make a place for the pollinators! Everyone's aware...
A bit about Dandelion: Herbal and Culinary Recipes
Dandelions. Dandelions are amazing! My longtime readers know that I often wax poetic about this despised "weed" - I sing songs to plants I find in...
One Gallon of Mint Wine {Recipe}
Mint, mint, mint. Once you get a good patch of mint planted, you should quickly have more mint than you can ever figure out how...
Wild Fermented Dandelion Wine Recipe
It is a beautiful spring, but I'm singing the blues. I'm down to my last bottle of dandelion wine from last year, and now I...
Wild Greens Pesto
There is a bounty of wild and cultivated green goodies just waiting to be enjoyed - all you have to do is to learn to...
Three Recipes: Blackberry Bitters, Blackberry Cordial & Blackberry Simple Syrup
Summer days in these mountains mean many wonderful things - fireflies blinking in the dusk, sweet little songbirds chirping, frogs croaking, and one of my...
Hedgerow Jelly: a recipe from the wild places
What is a hedgerow? In the cultured, organized sense, it is meant to be a barrier of trees and shrubs planted to mark boundary lines...
Dandelion Flower Infusion and Syrup
There are only a few dandelions in my yard this year, which is the opposite of a problem as far as most people are concerned! NOT...
Eat your weeds and wildflowers
I have to ask you a favor....it isn't a favor for me, specifically. It's a favor for all of us...STOP USING PESTICIDES! Not all bugs...