The Olde Willow Herbal Mercantile

05/08/2025

It’s a great day to play outside!

05/03/2025

Do you have this growing in your yard? Most do, but don't know the many benefits of picking it and brewing a lovely tea!

05/03/2025

Grows wild in our fields!

04/30/2025

What have you done with dandelions?
We are getting ready to make some dandelion honey!

04/27/2025

04/20/2025

Our event for this upcoming weekend (4/25-4/26) is now cancelled, please reach out to us if you have any questions about our new herbal teas!

04/08/2025

I think this sounds delicious!

Dandelion Syrup Recipe 🌼🍯

A sweet and floral syrup with a hint of lemon—perfect for pancakes, toast, or tea!

Ingredients:
• 4 cups dandelion flowers
• 2 ½ cups sugar
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👇🏻 FULL Recipe in the first ᴄ. ᴏ. ᴍ. ᴍ. ᴇ. ɴ. ᴛ 🥰👇🏻👇🏻

03/18/2025

We have this growing in our fields! Do you? So yummy!

Happy Almost-Spring—Howdy FIELD GARLIC (Allium vineale)! + Old School Bouillon Master Recipe

One of the first (and last) wild foods to gather—harvest it now and sprinkle into salads (leafy green, egg, fish, potato, bean), soups, dips, spreads (baba ganoush, pesto, hummus), scones, or make finishing salts or mayonnaise w/ it.

Closely related to chives, scallions & garlic, this perennial of the Amaryllidaceae family can be used similarly, offering a strong onion-garlicky flavor.

As a near kin to garlic (Allium sativa), we can assume its bulbs offer similar therapeutics = antimicrobial, immune stimulating, diaphoretic, and respiratory cleanser.

Field garlic is one of the stars in Wild Food Health Boosters & Herbal Remedies, my online course where you become a tincture-making wizard: http://www.WildFoodHealthBoosters.com

Old School Bouillon is a tasty way to preserve field garlic. On my blog, I share this master recipe, along with lots of variations. So you can make it with field garlic, chickweed, garlic mustard, or even gill-over-the-ground(?!):
https://bit.ly/3nhC2o4

Originally from Europe, it now grows prolifically everywhere, esp. here in the NE USA. This wild food literally grows under our feet and is often mistaken for grass, hence its nickname onion grass. It flourishes in lawns, fields, gardens, & open woods

Do you use field garlic, and if yes, how so?

Illustrated Field Garlic page from our Foraging & Feasting: A Field Guide and Wild Food Cookbook by Dina Falconi, illustrated by Wendy Hollender. More about our book on our site here: www.ForagingandFeasting.com Oh, yes, our book makes a perfect spring gift—just sayin'!

03/14/2025

Ditch the nasty dyes and make your own!

Great school project.. or home project.... natural Easter egg dye.

01/10/2024

Just delivered an Elderberry Syrup order to a friend today. You know what we did? We talked. Caught up on life for 10 minutes. Now I know how I can be praying for her. Real life is beautiful. We take it too much for granted.. Corporate America has its place, but I'm so incredibly thankful for our small business and the beautiful connections we make through it.

12/20/2023

All the beautiful fresh ingredients of our Olde Willow Herbal Mercantile Spiced Elderberry Syrup. How can such tiny little bits boost your immune system in such a sweet way?