I had a request to share the final wild violet jelly after it was processed and made, and I am finally getting the photos together to shar...

  Any foragers here?  I have a few reference books, but zero information in them in regards to if Purple Dead Nettle and Henbit both have th...

  The laundry has dried so much faster with the heat wave.  I love our solar dryer.  Free!  Smells great!  I get exercise. Wild black raspbe...

  You may get a laugh out of this discovery, but it's a reminder to get your recipes out before you do early prep work.  I started a cat...

I'm getting some odd jobs crossed off the to-do list lately.  One was to wash the bed cover and bottom sheet from the spare mattress ups...

Note: This was another resurrected draft post, so the photo is older, as well as the content, but sharing for those who may not know about p...

  I've narrowed down my draft blogposts.  I went from 80-some down to 38.  I have resurrected another draft.  The odd part, is that I ma...

  I've been keeping an eye out for spring wild violets.  They make the most delicious jelly, and the color is so pretty (and different, ...

I resurrected a blog draft from April of 2019.  The only thing in the draft was a photo of wild growing stinging nettle.  The only thing I...

  The wild black raspberries are on early this year.  They are small, but tasty.   I have a lot of plantain in the flower beds, and I am hap...

I'm back!  I have discovered how much I can get weeded when we have no internet, ha ha!  Woke up to no internet on Wednesday morning.  F...

Mullein planted in a pot last year and survived winter, but it's small. Mullein that popped up in a bed close to the house, alon...

One bonus from all this rain and recent heat wave, is that the weeds are galore.  Edible weeds - purslane. Although this is wonderfu...

When ever I read something new about a weed I harvest, I give it a try if I can.  The season for cleavers are over for us, but I wanted to s...

To make homemade cake flour, simply remove 2 Tbsp. from each cup needed, and  then add 2 Tbsp. of organic non-gmo corn starch.   Sift many t...

Although a bit late for morel mushrooms here, I'm sharing a recipe I found you all may like.  I hope to try it next spring.  I'd...

Yesterday I enjoyed a nettle smoothie.  I used blueberries and bananas for the fruit, some homemade yogurt, ice, and organic pomegranate j...

It's a very short post today folks.  So much to do, so little time.  I am so far behind on our vegetable/fruit garden it's not even ...

Spring weeds are here now.  I wonderful time to gather, eat,  and store. I put some weed pesto in the freezer already.  I weeded about 95% o...