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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...

Eat your weeds! Dandelion Fritter Recipe

I looked around my yard yesterday, and realized with a gasp that all of the dandelions that were proliferating on my path had gone, poof! ...

How to Make Cold Compost for Your Garden

Alongside your gardening supplies, making compost for your garden will make sure that you have everything you need for healthy crops. For a good compost,...

Foraging and Creating Violet Herbal Remedies

Well folks, now that I've shaken winter off like I shake sand crabs off my toes at the beach, I'm ready to share what's been...

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...

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Drying Strawberry Tops

I admit it: I'm lazy. A lazy cook, a lazy gardener...I like to set things up and let them do their own thing with minimal input...

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...

Cultivating the Wild: Gardening with Kids

The wee pixie is almost four years old, somehow! Time flies when you're having fun - and changing diapers, kissing boo-boos, and playing with tons...

Linden Leaf Salad: Foraging, Identification, and Use

by Ashley Adamant When most foragers think of wild spring greens, their minds go to dandelion greens and chickweed or any number of other herbaceous...

March 2018 Garden Tour

In early March, we got a great start with digging in some bare root trees and berry bushes. They're showing life, and we couldn't be...

Nettles – a feast on the forest floor

Stinging nettles are common around the world, throughout Europe, Asia, northern Africa, and western North America, and because of their many uses, has been introduced...

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...

Sage advice! Energetic herbal smudging

This trio of white sage, blue sage, and cedar bundles are available in Dawn's Etsy shop. A guest post by Dawn...

Things I Love: Sweet, Busy Springtime Insanity!

Howdy there, readers! It's a lovely spring day in Asheville, which means that it is sunny, the wind is blowing hard enough to knock me...