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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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Friday Top 5: Animal herbalists, Langdon Cook and more

Posted in Eat Weeds, Urban Foraging, Wilderness Survival, tagged , , , , on January 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »

* Animals are herbalists too. Cosmos Magazine listed the top 9 ways animals use plants, from insect repellant to prenatal care. * Have you heard of Langdon Cook? He’s not just a fellow forager blogger, he’s also a gifted storyteller who wrote a fun memoir about his adventures gathering ferns, mushrooms and coastal fauna called [...]

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New Zealand forager inspires lawmakers to ban herbicides

Posted in Eat Weeds, Urban Foraging, Wilderness Survival, tagged , , , , , on November 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Thanks to my Twitter pal and New Zealand-based urban forager @HelenLehndorf for passing this inspiring TV news video along. Follow me on Twitter @UrbanForager. How inspiring is this?!? That’s one way to make “grassroots activism” meaningful!! Her work makes me think of this nonprofit in New Jersey called Common Cause, which advocates for government transparency, [...]

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