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    Forest Fuel Management – Foraging Style

    August 26, 2026 - By 

    With many areas of North America suffering or having suffered various levels of wildfires this summer, and with discussions above and below the 49th Parallel centering around whether or not governments are doing enough to mitigate forest fire potential and better fight forest fires, fire mitigation and forest fuel management are popping up more and more frequently. Home and business owners are encouraged to be “fire smart”, and given guidelines for how to secure property against a future wildfire. Many of these guidelines include the removal of any interface greenery, referring to trees, tall grass, etc that may lead a…

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    Edible Scotch Thistle, It’s Uses, and Harvesting and Preparing it

    June 6, 2024 - By 

    One of the wild herbs we are starting to get into using more of in regular meals, is the Scotch Thistle. This grows all over the barn where we keep my daughter’s horse, and the barn owner regularly tries to get rid of it every year.  Last year, Ashley took some glam shots of some of the really tiny ones that just seemed to have SO much personality! Here is one of them. As a member of the thistle family, it is really good at supporting one’s liver and contains Silymarin just like the other thistles do. According to a…

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    Today’s Foraging Run Almost Got Cancelled!

    May 27, 2024 - By 

    So today’s foraging run was supposed to have been cancelled due to largely having run out of space to dry stuff at home! Then we attended the May 25th fair down in Kettle Valley, and discovered that to replenish some of our teas before June 9th’s wellness fair at the Laurel, we’d run out of Pasture Sage! We did VERY well at the Kettle Valley event! So we couldn’t let this week go by without seeing if we could find any Pasture Sage in one of our foraging zones where we know it grows. While the sage is indeed growing,…