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Field Medicine for a Survival Situation

Posted in Eat Weeds, Urban Foraging, Wilderness Survival, tagged , , , , , , , , on December 22, 2011 | 9 Comments »

A reader e-mailed to ask if I could suggest some medicinal wild plants that could be used fresh in the field, without much preparation, in an emergency survival situation. Usually I write about plants that take some amount of time to turn into medicine, so I thought this was a good idea. Here are seven [...]

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Blackberry Mead: DIY Prehistoric Wine

Posted in Eat Weeds, Urban Foraging, Wilderness Survival, tagged , on August 30, 2011 | 13 Comments »

The wild blackberry bush in the alleyway behind my apartment was heavy with fruit this weekend, so I thought it would be the perfect opportunity for mead-making. Mead is wine fermented out of honey instead of grapes. Archeologists have found evidence of mead dating back to 7,000 BCE in northern China. I had never made [...]

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Sunshine tea: Fun in a heatwave

Posted in Eat Weeds, Urban Foraging, Wilderness Survival, tagged , , , , , , on July 31, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I took a stroll down my street with Greg Monzel, an Indianapolis-based herbalist, during one of Portland’s heat-soaked summer days this week and we gathered up some incredible ingredients, bottled them, and let them cook in a windowsill. Clockwise from left: St. John’s Wort flowers and buds, blackberry leaves, the tops of self-heal flowers, huckleberry [...]

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