Category: Winter Blog Posts
Art of the Wild
December 6, 2012
Art of the Wild: NatureWorks Celebrate a deep awareness of our native environment through art made from local, wild materials. Each of us has an opportunity to use what is right around us to create beauty—it is as simple as finding driftwood, collecting river rocks, or arranging native berries and flowers to decorate the home. […]
Wild Holiday Recipes
TOYON CIDER Collect berries in winter. METHOD – Cover dried berries with water. – Bring to a boil and simmer for 20 – 30 minutes while crushing berries. – Strain and sweeten as desired. TIP Toyon cider has a wonderful aroma and color. Fresh berries can be used, but dried berries are much sweeter. ROSE […]
Rainy Winter Storms & Wild-Harvesting Opportunity
November 30, 2012
Here in the foothills we are at the start of a rainy winter storm that is expected to last about a week. I usually don’t think about wild-harvesting medicine during the winter rains, but this time of year there is one exception – unsea! Usnea is a lichen (a symbiotic partnership between a fungus and […]
It’s Nettle Time!
January 31, 2012
I grew up in Isleton, on the California Delta, spending a lot of time in the wilds of the local cornfields and the town’s edge lands. I knew many plants in a way that comes from the joy of a child, but there was one plant I avoided since even its name spelled doom: electric […]
Tasting the Land
The start of every year offers a useful opportunity to question our daily choices. In the overwhelm of the latest processed ingredient that proves cancerous and the infiltration of GMO’s into our food supply, as well as the influx of new foods and antioxidants that claim to provide the latest solution, it is hard to […]
