Foraging
How to Forage and Use Yellowroot in the Southern Mountains
Yellowroot grows along mountain creek banks. Learn to identify Xanthorhiza, dig a little root the kind way, dry it, and use it the old traditional ways.
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How to Forage and Use Cleavers in the Pacific Northwest
Cleavers is the sticky green plant that greens up first along Pacific Northwest fence lines. Learn to identify it, gather it clean, and make a cold…
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How to Forage and Use Slippery Elm Bark in Appalachia
Slippery elm bark has a long history in the mountains. Learn to identify the tree, gather bark without harming it, and prepare it the traditional way.
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Herbal Bath Soaks for Winter Evenings: A Beginner’s Recipe
How to make an herbal bath soak for cold, wet evenings: oats, calendula, chamomile and lavender in a cheesecloth bag, with a gift-jar version for the…
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A Winter Herbal Tea Blend From Appalachian Mountain Plants
How I blend a winter herbal tea from Appalachian mountain plants: white pine, spicebush, wintergreen and sweet birch, dried in the shed and jarred before frost.
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How to Make an Herbal Glycerite (An Alcohol-Free Tincture)
A herbal glycerite is the sweet, alcohol-free cousin of a tincture. Here's how I make one with dried herbs and glycerin, step by step, jar to…
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How to Forage and Use Yellow Dock Root in the Mountains
Yellow dock grows in every mountain pasture edge. Here's how to identify it, dig the root in the cool months, dry it, and prepare it the…
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How to Make an Herbal Foot Balm for Winter, Step by Step
An herbal foot balm for winter takes one pot, three ingredients and an afternoon. Here's my folk method, the ratio I use, and the honest pros…
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How to Forage Burdock Root in Appalachia: A Winter Dig
How I forage burdock root in Appalachia: finding first-year plants, ruling out toxic look-alikes, digging a deep root in the cold months, and keeping it.
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My Honest Nisaku Hori-Hori Review for Foragers and Root Diggers
A hori-hori knife review from thirty years of digging roots on the Olympic Peninsula: what the Nisaku does well, where it falls short, and who should…