Wild Foraging
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Safe Harvesting Tips
Safe Harvesting Practices Harvesting wild resources, whether plants, fungi, or other natural materials, is fundamentally about judgment. The risks are rarely dramatic or obvious; they are cumulative, contextual, and often invisible. Safe harvesting is less about memorizing rules and more about developing good habits. This applies equally to foraging food, collecting medicinal plants, or gathering
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Eat the Weeds: Chickweed (Stellaria media)
I absolutely love that it’s early January and I’m still harvesting fresh greens from the garden. Mind you, these are not greens that I’ve planted, but they sure are greens that I did not weed out! Here’s a picture I took today of Chickweed (Stellaria media) growing out of rich soil I have spent many