Plant Root Beverages
There has been a thread on the ForageAhead@yahoogroups.com list serv dealing with the properties of burdock (Arctium lappa) that morphed into a discussion of inulin in roots. I responded to the posting...
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Challenges in Making Winter Fires
You never hear the phrase 'heat to burn" anymore. At least not in the Boy Scouting literature. And yet, when making fires, especially in winter, it is a really important concept to know.It goes like...
View ArticleWinter Edibles at Goosefoot Acres
Usually, I'm not thinking "let's look for wild greens" in the middle of winter. It is usually snowy, and greens, other than wintercress (Barbarea vulgaris) are hard to come by. But not on December 29th...
View ArticleNew Jack LaLanne Juicer in service at the Gail's
I had always poo-pooed the idea of a juicer. "It takes out all the fiber," I told my wife Wilma. "We need that fiber."But one day a couple of weeks ago, we were channel-surfing and came across Jack...
View ArticleThe Lesson of Mequite Flour
The other day I had a chance to try cookies made from flour derived from mesquite seeds. Cookies tasted OK, nothing special, just like regularcookies. But it got me thinking about the new Heritage food...
View ArticleThe Writing Gene is Finally Creeping out of Kori's Hidden Recesses
I knew it would happen someday. I've seen it in her since she before she entered school.Kori is a born writer, although she has always denied it. I knew that someday, it would come out of her, either...
View ArticleThe New Bose Portable Sound Dock
I'm not going to live forever. Even more significant, my hearing, eyesight and other faculties will undoubtedly diminish over the years. Lately, as my arthritis has devastated my knees, and my ears get...
View ArticleFrom Russia with Love and Healing
It is snowing outside right now and I am writing a book review for a wonderful volume that I can highly recommend.. It is called Mama's Home Remedies, and is written by Svetlana Konnikova, formerly a...
View ArticleFlashback
I was cleaning my office yesterday, and came across a quote from the Reader's Digest that reminded me of counsel given to daughter Kori (and probably Karin, too, a few years earlier) as they were...
View ArticleHow to Assess the Risk of Potentially Toxic Chemicals in Foods
Recently I received an e-mail crying out in alarm that scientists have found Acrylimide in chicory, and asking how that might impact on users of Dandy Blend. In brief, she said that acrylimide, a...
View ArticleWhat Should Lawns Look Like?
Several years ago I was sent a wonderful e-mail purporting to be a conversation between God, who as we all know, created all our greenery plus a few other things, and St. Francis, the Catholic Saint...
View ArticleGrazing on Your Greenery
Food!In America, we sort of take for granted that it will always be there for us, but it might not..Today we have choices:! between commercial and organic,! locally grown or transported in, often from...
View ArticleDandelions, Chocolate and a "Sweet Movie"
Dandelions, chocolate, and a movie. What in the world do these three have in common?Properly roasted dandelion roots taste just like coffee, but lack caffeine, bitterness and acidity. They are,...
View ArticleINTEREST WILL SOON INCREASE IN FORAGING
For the last week or so we have been responding to a posting on the ForageAhead listserv about friends who consider foraging a useless pursuit. The sentence below from one of the posts pretty well...
View ArticleEdibleweeds.com is in Transition
Greetings, everyoneThe company hosting my edibleweeds.com site discontinued service, and created a need for me to finally update the site, which I hadn't worked on since 2004. All things happen for a...
View ArticleWhat's Missing in Kingsolver's Animal Vegetable and Miracle?
This week I got into Barbara Kingsolver’s "Animal Vegetable and Miracle", a book about , among other things, feeding yourself from locally produced goods, using just what is in season or that you have...
View ArticleOrganic, Locally Grown, and Free for the Harvesting:
Holden Arboretum scheduled me to teach a workshop in September, and have been hounding me for the description and a bio. I was in hospital this past weekend receiving a new stent so my blood will flow...
View ArticlePaying the rent AND supplying food in an economic crisis
In the Mormon Church, all members are strongly urged to store at least three months ---and ultimately a full year's supply-- of staples to fortify ourselves against whatever crises might occur in our...
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RELIEF FOR STRESSED OUT BUDGETS
My apologies for all the repetition in the past few blogs. I am doing this, quite frankly, to conveniently save writings that I will want to use for various purposes over the next year or so, in a...
View ArticleSurviving the Coming Hard Times
I can't believe how much time has passed since I last posted an entry here. It has been busy -- lots of workshops and classes, trip to Alaska where I saw red elderberries for what I think is the first...
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