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How Hawthorn Healed My Dog

Posted in Eat Weeds, Urban Foraging, Wilderness Survival, tagged , , , , on January 13, 2012 | 14 Comments »

My little mutt, Petunia, likes to curl up around my feet. About two months ago, she was sleeping like this when I noticed that her heartbeat wasn’t going in a predictable rhythm. There was a random spasm in the mix. I took her to the vet, a conventional dog doctor, and he confirmed that she [...]

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Do you know the hawthorn secret? Ray Mears does!

Posted in Eat Weeds, Urban Foraging, Wilderness Survival, tagged , , , on October 17, 2010 | 9 Comments »

There are 200 different species of hawthorn in the world, and the fruits of all Crataegus spp. are edible. They range in flavor from palatable to tasty, although that’s also a factor of your hunger. (They make a great tea too.) But hawthorn berries are tricky to process: how do you separate many seeds inside [...]

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