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Avens & Ground Ivy: Spring Tea Herbs

Posted in Eat Weeds, Urban Foraging, Wilderness Survival, tagged , , , , on April 29, 2012 | 5 Comments »

I came across both of these plants this afternoon in the shade of cottonwood trees lining a riparian meadow a little ways outside the city. For both, the chief use is to dry and make tea. Avens, Geum macrophyllum, is in the rose family. It has a fuzzy stem and five yellow petals which barely [...]

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Cottonwood: Wild Antiseptic Salve

Posted in Eat Weeds, Urban Foraging, Wilderness Survival, tagged , , on April 19, 2012 | 11 Comments »

Before people bought tubes of Bacitracin (TM), Neosporin (TM), and generic imitations thereof, we had cottonwood salve. The cottonwood tree, Populus balsamifera, also called Balsam Poplar or Balm of Gilead, grows in wet meadows and along rivers and lakes, ranging from Alaska to Southern California and east across the top half of North America as [...]

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Five Things To Do With Stinging Nettle

Posted in Eat Weeds, Urban Foraging, Wilderness Survival, tagged , , , on April 3, 2012 | 4 Comments »

1) Hummus In a blender, combine: 1 can of garbanzo beans, 1/2 cup of chopped nettle greens, 1/4 cup tahini, 2 tbsp olive oil, 2 tbsp lemon juice, 1/4 tsp sea salt, and 2 cloves of garlic. 2) Quiche Sautee 4 cups chopped nettle greens with 1/2 chopped onion in olive oil or butter until [...]

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