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wild edible recipe: fireweed tea
fireweed (chamaenerion angustifolium) also known as: great willowherb, bombweed habitat: temperate climates, often in barren or disturbed soil such as areas recovering from wildfire edible parts: flowers, leaves, and stems Fireweed was one of my first successful foraging harvests. I’d been spending a lot of time at a cafe where they sold fireweed tea, and… Read more
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recycling plastic bags into coozies (free crochet pattern)
Single-use plastic sucks a lot, and especially since we’ve been finding out that plastic recycling basically doesn’t work and even if you try to recycle it, it probably ends up in a landfill anyway. In many countries and cities, governments are making active steps to reducing this, but reducing your plastic bag accumulation is not… Read more
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wild edible recipe: yarrow tea
common yarrow (achillea millefolium) also known as: yarrow, milfoil habitat: nearly everywhere except parts of africa and southern asia edible parts: entire plant Yarrow is a plant that’s easy to recognize, it’s got these frilly feathery leaves that really don’t look like anything else that I can think of. Mature yarrow plants will also have… Read more
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how I got into foraging
I’m pretty new to the world of botany. I started getting into plants last year, when my partner and I were staying at an airbnb near mount baker in the north cascades. It was early spring, and both of us as non-native-pacific-northwesterners had never really experienced a temperate rainforest before. I mean shit, neither of… Read more