Learn to recognize and use this valuable plant These days, everyone wants to eat the hip “new” nutritional foods: kale, chia, quinoa, and many of the others that are found in the latest chef’s restaurant where all the beautiful people go. Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa) is a seed that has been...
WILD-CRAFTING: Pros and Cons
WHY YOU SHOULD LEARN TO GROW AND HARVEST YOUR OWN HERBS [Nyerges has been teaching ethnobotany since 1974. He is the author of “Guide to Wild Foods,” “Foraging Edible Wild Plants of North America,” and 20 other books. More information at www.SchoolofSelf-Reliance.com]. Recently I participated in a nation-wide on-line Wild...
ENJOY THE DELICIOUS NETTLE — an excellent Survival Food!
NETTLE: An excellent food, medicine, and fibre source Often during this time of the year, I get an allergic reaction when I’ve been under and around the trees that produces lots of pollen and cottony-fluff, like willows, and cottonwoods, and cattail, and oak. I’ve tried numerous remedies over...