Category: Everyday Wild Posts
Relax w/CA Poppy, Drink Vitamin C Tea from Douglas Fir & Enjoy Salad from Wild Sweet Pea Tips
May 11, 2012
1 CA Poppy: I’ve continued to scatter seeds in my garden every year and now am lucky to have an abundance of poppies. I gathered the upper plant and flower of poppies that had grown like weeds between the rocks in my garden and finished flowering. I’ll dry these and use as a relaxation tea […]
Pine Pollen Superfood, Douglas Fir Tip Sorbet, CA Poppy for Relaxation
1 CA Poppy: I’ve continued to scatter seeds in my garden every year and now am lucky to have an abundance of poppies. I gathered the upper plant and flower of poppies that had grown like weeds between the rocks in my garden and finished flowering. I’ll dry these and use as a relaxation tea […]
Eat Garden Weeds & Redbud Flowers!
May 4, 2012
May 21-30 21 Led walk through Sacramento Cemetery; Tasted Wild Grape Jam, Miner’s Lettuce, Manzanita Cider 22 Pulled young mallow greens from the garden while weeding. The young greens are good in salad and the older greens can be steamed like spinach. 23 I tasted Mock Orange leaves today, reportedly good as a salad. I […]
Yarrow Greens, Cottonwood Buds, Redbud Flowers & Chickweed
April 29, 2012
April 9-20 9 I enjoyed the young greens of Yarrow today, chopped finely and added raw to other spring greens. They are slightly bitter, but still tasty. 10 Oak nut marzipan (keep this frozen as a favorite dessert to surprise your guests). 11 Eye wash: I had an eye infection and tested boiling Oregon Grape […]
Spring Wild Salad, Elderberry Syrup, Ceanothus Flowers
April 8, 2012
April 1st-8th 1 I collected Ceanothus (also called Buckbrush, Ceanothus cuneatus) flowers to dry and use to treat poison oak this summer. They were also used as soap and smell wonderful! 2 Watercress salad collected during a hike. It is slightly bitter but delicious! 3 I collected fresh Alder bark to experiment for […]
