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    Growing Pains: Expansion has Eclipsed The Website!

    June 16, 2025 - By 

    Here we grow again!  The Spring foraging season has allowed us to get some teas back on the table at craft fairs, while deciding that we no longer need an ingredient in the house, has allowed us to put other teas back out as well.  We have so much chokecherry juice concentrate, syrup and jelly, that we aren’t using our tubs of chokecherry leaf, and that leaf is the base of several of our teas. We had created several “stand-in” teas we had called them, to keep the table active at craft fairs while we began harvesting missing ingredients we’d…

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    Legalities of Foraging in BC, Canada

    April 25, 2025 - By 

    A recent article published on Castanet, a local news site, erroneously has claimed that it is illegal to dig up Arrowleaf Balsamroot on crown land here in BC. When I asked for sources, they sent me this link, where I immediately noticed the reporter’s error: Collection 2 (1) Subject to subsection (2), a person must not collect cones, seeds or vegetative material from Crown land unless in possession of a cone and vegetative material collection permit issued by the district manager, or person authorized by the district manager. (2) Subsection (1) does not apply to (a) employees or agents of…

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    Early Foraging and Craft Fair Sales PSA

    April 3, 2025 - By 

    Spring greetings!  It’s the beginning of April, and plants are growing again, some more quickly than others, but growing just the same.  Spring markets are also happening, with two big ones on our doorstep! We will be at the Spring Shoparama event this weekend in Vernon at the Vernon Rec Centre on Saturday and Sunday.  Saturday is from 10am to 6pm, and Sunday is from 10am to 5pm. We will then be at the Vernon Wellness Fair under Marilynn’s Biblical Natural Health Coaching banner the following weekend, 10-5pm on the Saturday and 10-4pm on the Sunday. These two fairs come…

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    2024 Year in Review

    January 4, 2025 - By 

    2024 was an Amazing Year! We could also call it “The Year of Expansion”! Ashtree Wildcrafting began 2024 by introducing one new tea, and upscaling our table display with live edge risers. The tea we introduced back in January, was Snow Drift, our answer to everyone’s requests for something similar to Sleepy Time, without being that trademarked tea. Wouldn’t you know it, but we’d go on to sell 51 Snow Drift teas! We learned that most people want to buy medium-sized cloth reusable tea bags, or the large size, but very few smalls sold. Later in the Fall, I’d go…

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    Tea: Memories of Earl and Summer Skies Rare Teas

    December 11, 2024 - By 

    Memories of Earl Description: Enjoy similar flavours to the fog of London, captured from the wilds of the Central Okanagan. This tea is reminiscent to various recipes of Earl Grey, without actually being Earl Grey, using entirely wild ingredients foraged around the hills and meadows of Kelowna BC. Net Weight: 10g Summer Skies Description:     Sip the fruity flavours of a mid-summer Okanagan Evening      Bring the tastes and smells home from the orchards and gardens.  This is a limited-run tea due to ingredients we don’t easily find in our typical foraging zones.  It will only be seen…

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    Excited to Offer Custom Teas By Request Online!

    November 11, 2024 - By 

    A quick note to everyone that we are now offering the ability to request custom tea blends directly from this website!  In the past, we only offered this in person at the various craft fairs we attend, but now we can take your request online.  The cost of your bag of tea and the shipping will be communicated to you via email.  The option of giving us a phone number is there if you think we might want to call you to verify or confirm a detail, but you do not have to supply a phone number to complete the…

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    Fall 2024 Updates: Site Tweaks, a New Tea, and Upcoming Fairs

    October 4, 2024 - By 

    Fall has begun with quite a bang around our place!  It began with inputting a number of fall events, only for me to discover today that one event had it’s date entered wrong and hid several of this fall’s fair dates!  That is now fixed and you can see more of the many fall and Christmas craft fairs that we’ll be attending this season.  The first is coming up this weekend as we attend the Vernon Wellness Fair on October 5th and 6th under Marilynn’s Biblical Natural Health Coaching banner.  She’ll have a “Natural Health Fun Zone” set up this…

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    Tea: Creekside Special Tea

    October 4, 2024 - By 

    Description: Take a moment to relax, lounging by an artesian stream. This tea is a mellow, slightly zippy tea that’s great for relaxing, rejuvinating and refreshing.  The longer it steeps, the more amazing its flavour becomes until its cold and tasting like an excellent candidate for your next iced tea. Net Weight: 10g Tea: Creekside Special Tea $17.00 Tea: Creekside Special Tea $17.00 Buy now

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    Chokecherry Harvest Has Begun!

    August 12, 2024 - By 

    Today’s foraging run was all about the chokecherries! Many of the trees are only half-ready to pick at this time, but others are fully ready, some Pin (red) and some Black. Some bushes put out tiny berries, but most of them are putting out really fat, plump berries this year! We actually need more leaf than cherry this year, but I’ll make more juice concentrate and syrups with the berries we bring home just the same. We have quite a bit already dried from previous years that we haven’t worked our way through yet, so no need to dry them…

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    Foraging, at Home and on the Trail

    June 11, 2024 - By 

    The tiny “lawn” patch that came with the pad we rent, is a literal power-patch!  We create a poster now each spring of what it appears will be growing there. Today was the third harvest since that poster went up, and. . . This pic shows most of the result: 1 long tray of mustard weed, the equivalent of 2 trays’ worth of horsetail, a tray of pineapple weed, 4 trays of prickly lettuce, and 3 trays of dandelion. I have at least one tray’s worth of broadleaf plantain waiting to be hand washed, but the washing machine is using…