Category: Wild Food

The Gifts of Birch Trees

Birch is an amazing ally in restoration, food, medicine, shelters, and provides remarkable gifts for starting fires. Even in the wettest conditions, you can rely on Birch to give you the tools you need to stay warm, dry, and cook your food. Birch is host to fungi that are some of the most powerful immunity enhancers accessible to people in Northern Ontario. In times that are uncertain, Birch's spirit remains as it does in landscapes that have experienced devastation...They are pioneers of growth and gifts for all things.

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Plantain; Plantago major

It is interesting how Plantain (Plantago major) helps to heal the earth and human beings in astonishingly similar ways. When the Earth is trampled on and scarred, Plantain is one of the first who appears with its renewing, restorative energy. When human beings have a wound, a sting, or a disturbance on their skin, Plantain... Continue Reading →

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Cattail; A Plant of a Thousand Gifts

Cattail! There isn't anything out there like it that has such important gifts of food, building, skin care, or who is such a steward of the landscape and waterways. At every part of the season Cattail shines it's unique pieces.

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How to Grow, Harvest, and Make Medicine with Elderberry

Elderberries are enthusiastic and energetic growers that can never be tamed. They are extremely useful shrubs that are magnets to incredible amounts of wildlife, medicine makers, foragers, wine makers, and foodies. Learn about making Elderberry syrup, harvesting and growing techniques, and how to propagate this wonderful shrub.

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7 Powerful and Simple Ways to Give Back to Nature

Giving back to Nature can be a beautiful and creative way of living. The gift doesn't end there. It's meant to be shared, carried on, and eventually returned in a changed and yet even stronger form. How do we give back for the things that we have taken? This is a question I find in the deepest foundations of my life. 

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Labrador Tea

Learn about the gifts of Labrador Tea. How to make wild spice blends, how to make cough syrup, how to grow, how to harvest, sustainable harvesting, and how to propagate.

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