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06/28/2025

09/23/2024

Harvesting abundance and preparing for the winter. We suddenly are on the other side of summer. Healing has many different stages and does not go in a straight line. Loving this season. Sending blessings to you.🌏🙌🌈

07/23/2023

Lambsquarters, Wild Spinach is a volunteer food source in all the gardens I’ve ever worked. When cooked it does taste like it’s cousin spinach. It’s packed with fiber, vit A, vit C, riboflavin, calcium, zinc, copper, and magnesium. Also high in potassium, lutein, and other carotenoids . It blends well with other wild and cultivated garden favorites. Knowing your weeds makes gardening more fun!

05/28/2023

Comfrey is very happy this year! Welcome Healing to all.🐝🌈💕

05/12/2023

Enjoy your dandelions incorporated into your meals for healthier looking skin!

03/21/2023

12/22/2022

Mexican beekeepers win fight against Monsanto! After hearing the evidence, a permit issued to Monsanto allowing Roundup-ready soybean production in the Yucatan has been overturned. The threat GM soybeans pose to the bees and honey production was deemed unacceptable. Sweet victory!

08/14/2022

THE OLD FRIENDSHIP OF BLUEBERRIES AND SWEET FERN:
In the time before refrigeration, Ojibwe folks kept their blueberry harvest fresh by lining their birchbark storage containers with a plant called sweet fern that often grows right alongside blueberry bushes!
The leaves of sweet fern produce a compound called gallic acid, which is a potent anti-microbial and keeps harmful bacteria like salmonella from growing on the berries.
It's name in the Ojibwe dialect I've learned is "giba`iganiminzh" meaning "it covers the berries" because of this usage and its contribution to keeping the precious staple food of minan (blueberries) fresh!

I don't use a birchbark container but I do pop a few sprigs of sweet fern into my gathering bag when out picking and then into my tupperware when storing berries to remember and utilize the gifts of this wonderful plant!

(Sweet fern can also be used as a medicinal tea to help the intestines and colon! And when added to a fire, the smoke will help keep away mosquitos and horse flies--in addition to smelling lovely!)

07/21/2022

This week, NatureWatch columnist Thom Smith shares a few thoughts about monarch butterflies.