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Special Order for Comfrey

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved I recently wrote about the nutritional benefits of mulching and fertilizing with sea kelp. A commenter mentioned using comfrey, to which I replied that I am a big fan of comfrey as a fertilizer and

Spring Ramps

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved Ramps, aka wild leeks, are a wild North American onion-like plant that pop up in forested areas in early-mid spring. The season for ramps is short, typically no more than a few weeks between April and

Stinging Nettle Tea

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved In my world, foraging goes hand-in-hand with gardening. Maybe it's because the compulsion to do both comes from the same place in my brain (a fascination with the natural world and an interest in knowing how things

Together, Let’s Fight the Spread of Invasive Garlic Mustard (and Eat it Too)

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved Another spring and a new crop of garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata) is setting up camp for the season. We found a few small plants in the street garden cleanup last week and several at the community

Things I Learned While Camping

Photo by Davin Risk All Rights Reserved Homesteading -- the kind that involved living in tents and no machinery -- was terribly difficult. I'm sure of it. Of course I already knew this, camping merely drove that point home in a new way. Simple tasks

Blackberry Season

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Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolata)

Photo by Davin Risk All Rights Reserved The garlic mustard population is really getting out-of-hand at the community garden this year. I've discovered loads of it in unused areas of disturbed, lousy soil and it is expanding rapidly into the edges around plot beds.

Nettle Soup

nettlesoup.jpg In the spirit of Be Nice to Nettles Week, we tried our hand at a batch of nettle soup using the site recipe as a basis. Let me tell you that a half pound of nettles is a whole lot more

Be Nice to Nettles Week

I first discovered stinging nettle one day while book shopping on Harbord Street, a popular used book area of Toronto. One of the stores had a selection of herbs sitting out front. Anyone who knows me knows I am a sucker for herbs and am impulsive

Stinging Nettle (Pinhole)

stingingnettle_pinhole.jpg A photo I took for World Pinhole Photography Day, an event that just happened to coincide with my first stinging nettle foraging expeditition of the season. I am an accomplished multi-tasker.
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