#wildharvest

Seasons don’t wait for us; we have to time our harvests to get the most from plants, and now, in early spring, is the best time to harvest one of my go-to remedies for aches, pains, and general health:

I decided to pick a few blackberries, just the ones that were ripe and ready. I prefer gathering them as soon as they are ripe and still firm. Halfway through picking, these two somehow managed to find

Hi friends, do you know this insect? This is called a weevil larva.it is an edible insect mostly eaten by Africans and Asian In some parts of Asia, weevil larvae or similar insect larvae are often called

I feel incredibly lucky to have a new vinegar mother, and I decided to experiment by making berry vinegar. This was originally from my mishaps, and I accidentally turned my elderflower champagne into a

... some wild goji berry with ripe berries. There are 3 types of wild Goji growing in the southwest deserts. This one looks like Lycium andersonii to me but it could be L. cooperi or L. pallidum too. Hard

I love it that strong medicines are "weeds" literally growing in the cracks of the sidewalks here in Mexico! Steepshot IPFS IOS Android Web

Even with the frost and snow we had the last couple weeks the mushrooms haven't gone dormant. Today my wife and I picked 4 gallons of meadow mushrooms and 2 gallons of shaggy manes. I saw another great

This year is turning out to be one of the best mushroom years in a long time. Just stumbled onto a good sized Shaggy Mane (Coprinus comatus) patch. These specimens will be sliced and dried. Any that have

This weekend I was exploring the Falling Fruit app and found a blueberry farm that was 30 minutes away with ripe produce. I ate probably 2 lbs of berries and we bought around 4. It was a really delicious

Below.... you can see the Osha growing in its preferred ecosystem. Sub alpine meadows...at 8000ft and higher. She grows where the bears roam...and aspen groves thrive! She tends to have a peculiar love

A little while back, I showed you a picture of my emerging Nettle field. For the past few days, I have been harvesting nettles at least once a day. I take a shallow bowl and my scissors. I push the bowl