During the week of the Fall Equinox each year you can find me in my kitchen chopping up spicy garden-grown vegetables and adding them to a large glass jar. I’m making fire cider in preparation for the oncoming cold and flu season. Fire Cider is a spicy cold and flu tonic that boosts immunity, improves digestion, and warms the body. Discover the benefits of fire cider, how to make fire cider, and how to use fire cider in this simple recipe.
Read MoreI wanted to capture the poetic and whimsical elegance of this late summer meadow in motion by mindfully crafting an ikebana flower arrangement.
Read MoreSpruce tips are one of my favorite easy spring plants to forage. I especially love to munch the raw, tender, zingy shoots with trail mix on a hike. While other wild plants might be elusive to locate, spruce tips are usually quite abundant and safe to forage. Because this plant is a great introductory plant into the world of foraging I thought I would share tips for foraging wild spruce tips plus my recipe for quick-pickled spruce tips, so you can also enjoy the wild flavors of the forest this spring.
Read MoreLearn how to make your own wild pine infused vinegar natural cleaning spray. Forage for pine needles and try my easy Wild Pine All Purpose Cleaning Spray recipe to enliven your spring cleaning activities this season. Consider this a sneak peek into my upcoming Forage & Wildcrafting Course that launches Spring 2021.
Read MoreWeeding has become an essential self-soothing routine these weeks at home lately. On the worst of days it’s a task to distract me. Other days it feels more like a sacred meditation, or an intimate dialog between me and Her. In this therapy session with nature, she reminds me that things are not always as they seem. Labels are deceiving. A “weed”, after all, is only a flower growing in a place where someone doesn’t want it.
Read MoreIt is 8:30 Monday morning and I have a different sort of commute. As the sun crests over the peaks, I walk onward and upward into the forest. For those willing to walk the path less traveled, wild foraging is a journey that nourishes the body and re-wilds the soul.
Read MoreHave you ever walked under evergreens and noticed the trees excreting drops of sap? On a recent adventure into the forest I came across a beautiful old pine tree that was dropping large globs of pine resin. Here are my instructions for sustainably harvesting pine resin and using it to craft an antimicrobial healing balm.
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