* I’ll be offering a free plant identification walk at 3 p.m. at the ResiliencePDX community disaster preparedness expo on Saturday, June 2, outside the King School in northeast Portland. Come stop by and learn how to survive the apocalypse locally. (This will be an abbreviated version of the beginning of Urban Foraging 101 classes). [...]
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New Plant Classes
Posted in Eat Weeds, Urban Foraging, Wilderness Survival on May 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
How to: Hawthorn Flower Medicine
Posted in Eat Weeds, Urban Foraging, Wilderness Survival, tagged Crataegus, hawthorn, heart medicine, Tincture on May 5, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Hawthorn is a heart medicine widely used to stabilize erratic heartbeat, moderate high blood pressure, and heal angina and arteriosclerosis (hardened arteries). It’s also popular as a medicine to heal the spiritual and emotional trauma of heartbreak and heart ache. Late spring is the perfect time to make hawthorn medicine with the flowering twigs. To [...]
Sow Thistle: A Tasty Wild Green
Posted in Eat Weeds, Urban Foraging, Wilderness Survival, tagged dandelion, lactuca serriola, sonchus oleraceas, sow thistle on April 30, 2012 | 8 Comments »
I was talking on my cell phone and walking down the street today when I happened to pass this plant that I recognized from books: It’s sow thistle, Sonchus oleraceas. Sow thistle has bright yellow flowers and toothed, hairless leaves that resemble dandelion, Taraxacum officinale. But sow thistle grows much taller than dandelion — Sonchus [...]
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