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Every week, homeowners across North America spray their lawns with chemicals, killing plants that their grandparents and great-grandparents would have picked and eaten. In fact, most homeowners likely don’t even realize that those “pesky weeds” are actually edible – and ...

Summer is a great time to gather wild plants to eat and store for winter health. Gathering can be a terrific family activity as well. Raspberry, blueberry, strawberry and blackberry are abundant in many locales. All yield tasty berries and ...

Wild crafting is the term given for collecting wild plants. Wild plants often have strong healing properties and exceptional flavor. I have never tasted a store bought strawberry that compared in flavor to the tiny alpine ones that grow freely ...

In today’s uncertain world, you never know when you may be caught in a situation where there are no grocery markets, no farms, and no homes for as far as the eye can see. You check your pockets and only ...

Many people rely on their summer gardens to help sustain them during the growing season and then preserve their harvest for the coming months. Some may even go so far as to use that food to prepare for extended emergency ...

In an extended survival scenario, food will become a primary concern; however, plants can be used more than just food. This article talks about a potentially more pressing concern in a survival situation: medicine.  Medicinally, wild plants can be helpful ...