Foraging can help you cut grocery bills, connect with nature, do some weeding
Ellen Zachos is a modern-day forager, gathering wild foods to enrich her cuisine. New York’s Central Park provides the fixings for much of her larder, which includes wines, pickles, jams and jellies...
View ArticleWhat's blooming now: Virginia wildflowers and activities for mid to late...
Related topics wildflowersStudent ActivitiesAmerican historyScience lessonsNature Activities Advertisement Summer may be over as far as the school kids are concerned, but Mother Nature's still showing...
View ArticleThe Handy Dandy Dandelion
Spring will come and with it the much maligned dandelion. However, these nuisance flowers are known to save lives and they taste delicious. March may come in like a lion or a lamb, but people...
View ArticleWon't you try a weed?
The small front yard was a sea of green, with hearty weeds overwhelming boring blades of grass. One would be hard-pressed to describe the apartment building as having a “lawn.” It was better. Foragers...
View ArticleLate spring weeds to feed your house rabbits
Weeds are typically higher in phyto-nutrients than cultivated crops; phyto-nutrients are plant compounds associated with positive health effects. Cultivated plant foods typically have had some or most...
View ArticleGetting Green for Earth Week: Using edible flowers to spice up meals
Video: WASHINGTON, April 22, 2013 – It’s Earth Week and I find myself thinking of ways I can make my footprint greener. One of the most popular ways of greening in my food-centric world is eating more...
View ArticleSpring Cleaning Herb Salad: If You Can’t Beat ‘Em - Eat ‘Em!
There is an old saying that goes sort of like this: ‘There are no strangers - only friends we haven’t met yet.’ I take that a bit further: ‘There are no weeds - only plants we haven’t bothered getting...
View ArticleDishes bloom with fresh flowers
Gallery: Dishes bloom with fresh flowers Travel Deals $99 -- Miami: Hip South Beach Resort, Reg. $309 See all travel deals » Anna Herman, For The Inquirer Posted: Thursday, June 6, 2013, 3:00 AM If...
View ArticleNortheast Ohio’s 10 least-wanted invasive plants
Experts consider these 10 invasive plants to be especially troublesome in Northeast Ohio: • Bush honeysuckle (Lonicera maackii, L. morrowii and L. tatarica). Many people love this shrub for its...
View ArticleForaged food on the menu
I had never heard of a "professional forager" before I watched a TED lecture given by Tama Matsuoka Wong. What exactly is a professional forager you ask? Well, apparently there's a whole subset of...
View ArticleForage for your food on Earth Day
April 22 is Earth Day, and this is a great time to remember that not all food needs to be planted and cultivated. Nature often provides some of the finest foods in abundance, and often this can be...
View ArticleEconomical ways to feed your house rabbit (Photos)
House rabbits should have good quality timothy hay and fresh water 24/7, and usually timothy hay pellets in quantities as directed by your veterinarian. Fresh produce of the proper type will add more...
View ArticleRochelle's Table: Cooking with parsnips, a sweet winter/spring root...
If you eat a seasonally-inspired diet, chances are you're pretty sick of root vegetables by this point. In Central New York, we don't have much in the way of fresh vegetables in the winter months -...
View ArticleWSSA Offers New Fact Sheet on Weeds, the Bullies of the Plant World
Today the Weed Science Society of America is introducing a free fact sheet about weeds that is available for download from the society's website. LAWRENCE, Kansas (PRWEB) December 11, 2012 Did you...
View ArticleUrban Forager | Garlic Mustard
I was recently nosing around a friend’s backyard in Connecticut, looking forward to introducing my 1-year-old to the newest crop of springtime edibles. I had just finished clambering down a rocky...
View ArticleTotally free natural summer salad
From week to week, food prices climb a few pennies to three or four dimes per item. Fresh produce can be especially expensive if it has to be trucked in from another state. Farmer's Markets will begin...
View ArticleWeeds in your Colorado yard might turn into salsa, salad or pizza
Wild-food experts Wendy Petty, left, and Erin Smith pick mallow leaves out of a garden in Boulder. Smith is the director of the Center for Integrative Botanical Studies. The two lead classes on...
View ArticleFinding Flavor in the Weeds
I know I'm not the only one who had chickweed growing like a deeply rooted carpet all over my vegetable garden this spring. And have you ever seen such huge leaves of dock this early in the season?...
View ArticleMichigans invasive plant list- What's in your garden?
Do you have invasive non- native plants in your Michigan garden? The DNR and various conservation groups are again urging residents to root out and destroy certain plants that are not native and...
View ArticleKing County's war on weeds
Related topics weed controlSeattle gardening Advertisement I was stopped in my tracks recently by a wanted poster - for a plant. King County has declared Garlic Mustard (a.k.a Alliaria petiolata) a...
View Article5 Garden Weeds You Can Eat!
Has the heat killed your garden and left nothing but weeds? Then why not eat those weeds? Last year at this time we reported on five healthy weeds likely growing in or near your yard: dandelion,...
View ArticlePlant Lovers’ Almanac: Winter weeds or the first flowers of spring?
When my son was about 7, I visited his first-grade classroom to teach about flowers. I took along tulips, daffodils and dandelions for the children to examine and dissect as we explored the parts of a...
View ArticleDandelion and wild chicory are tops for house rabbits
Are you feeding your house rabbits weeds? Weeds offer great nutrition and health benefits, are economical, provide variety in the diet and are fun to forage. Readers of this column are well aware that...
View ArticleMichigan's invasive plant list- What's in your garden?
Do you have invasive non- native plants in your Michigan garden? The DNR and various conservation groups are again urging residents to root out and destroy certain plants that are not native and...
View ArticleThistles: One man's cure is another man's noxious weed (Photos)
Pink and purple thistles are in full bloom in southern Indiana. Thistle is the common name for plants, mostly from the (daisy) family, Asteraceae, that are prickly all over and whose flowers grow atop...
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Alliaria petiolata. That’s the given name of a particular biennial plant that grows in Missouri and across much of the United States. In season, it can grow to be upward of 3 feet tall, and when the...
View ArticleDon't depend on science experiments for food
If given the choice of eating naturally grown veggies or those that have been unnaturally genetically modified to withstand massive doses of pesticides, I think any rationally minded human would go...
View ArticleGarlic mustard sauce still popular after 7,000 years of flavorful spice...
Our early ancestors had a taste for spicy food, new research led by the University of York has revealed. Archaeologists at York, working with colleagues in Denmark, Germany and Spain, have found...
View ArticleDealing with spring weeds
This dynamic and compressed early spring has brought a concentration of long-awaited blossoms and bulbs but also an epic confluence of weeds. Winter annuals usually have gone out with a bang by late...
View Article6 Edible Plants to Forage for in New York City
Photo via Shutterstock Eating things off the ground is typically frowned upon in New York City, but edible plant expert "Wildman" Steve Brill has made a name for himself doing just that. Known as...
View ArticlePlease eat the dandelions: 9 edible garden weeds
All too often, homeowners and gardeners wage war in their lawns and gardens against the plants that grow incredibly well there, but that aren't intentionally planted, and many times, the justification...
View ArticleRe-discovering Perennial Vegetables
As the days lengthen and the sun grows stronger, many of us are champing at the bit to get our gardens started. Seed catalogues are being pored over, dog-eared, and circled, and some folks may have...
View ArticleWild edibles in NYC: Eva Chin shows us what's in season now
Advertisement Advertise here Ava Chin grew up and Queens and has been foraging for the better part of her life. In her new memoir (and guide) "Eating Wildly: Foraging for Life, Love and the Perfect...
View ArticleWild edibles in NYC: Ava Chin shows us what's in season now
Advertisement Advertise here Ava Chin grew up and Queens and has been foraging for the better part of her life. In her new memoir (and guide) "Eating Wildly: Foraging for Life, Love and the Perfect...
View Article5 Ordinary Plants With Extraordinary Abilities
Beauty is always in the eye of the beholder. This concept is rarely more true than in reference to so-called weeds: some of the most important and useful species on the planet. A weed is simply...
View ArticleAn Adventure in Foraging
How I hate being trendy but I suppose there is no avoiding it this time. I went foraging in the woods of Columbia County and loved every second of it. It appeals to my sense of taste, adventure and...
View ArticleEdible weeds to feed your house rabbits
Are you making the most of the edible weeds in your garden? House rabbits and other herbivores love the freshness and variety of common weeds found in most backyards. As always, be very sure that the...
View Article9 spring weeds, from dandelion to chickweed, you can eat
Dandelions, chickweed, others are delicious, nutritious greens now in your yard or park Emily Ho TheKitchn.com Comments Many of us look forward to the arrival of spring farmers markets, but theres...
View ArticlePurslane and goosefoot are nutritious weeds to feed your house rabbits (Photos)
Weeds are nutritionally superior to cultivated greens, being generally higher in phyto-nutrients than cultivated crops. Phyto-nutrients are bioactive plant-derived compounds associated with positive...
View ArticlePlants you can eat to survive in the wild
By Serusha GovenderPublished June 03, 2014 Facebook0 Twitter0 Gplus0 Flickr/Nomadic Lass Flickr/Martin Labar iStock/Thinkstock Flickr/Randi Hausken Flickr/J Michael Raby Previous Next Ever watched...
View ArticleDandelion roots and more: Finding food at our feet
Ellen Zachos is a modern-day forager, gathering wild foods to enrich her cuisine. New Yorks Central Park provides the fixings for much of her larder, which includes wines, pickles, jams and jellies...
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