By Sara Tipton The summer months are a great time to forage for nature-grown edibles. Depending on what part of the country you live in, you are bound to find a few wild foods to take back with you! With food prices climbing, we will…
By Jayne Rising Why do you need good OPSEC in the garden? Well, when SHTF, rest assured hungry and unprepared neighbors will look upon your preps with great desire. And that includes your garden. For those new to the world of prepping, OPSEC means Operational…
By National Geographic Instead of neat rows of monoculture, forest gardens combine fruit and nut trees, shrubs, herbs, vines and perennial vegetables together in one seemingly wild setting. This type of agroforestry mimics natural ecosystems and uses the space available in a sustainable way. UK-based…
By Natural Blaze Nectar, the high-energy ‘honey’ produced by flowers, might be a brilliant distraction technique to help protect a flower’s reproductive parts, according to new research. Rather than merely providing a ‘come-on’ to bees and other insects to attract them to pollinate the flower,…
Don’t have a green thumb? Try out this low-maintenance and high-yield technique. The number of Americans producing their own fruits and vegetables has increased more than 25 percent since 2008, growing to 44 million of our friends and neighbors. Yet, many reject growing their own…
By Health Tips Now Nasturtiums or Tropaeolum majus are one of the most popular summer plants and they are not only beautiful and decorative, but also extremely healing and powerful natural antibiotics. It originally came from South America – Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia and Peru, where it…
By Organic and Healthy While Native American medicine is something many people hold in high regard, it’s not something many people know very well. We’re here with nine plants that the Cherokee people used extensively for medicinal purposes: 1. Big Stretch (Wild Ginger) Mild tea…
By Jeremiah Johnson We’re going to give you guys and gals a bit of information pertaining to Taraxacum officinale, also known as the Dandelion. Last year I conducted a book review on the work “Eat the Weeds,” and out of the edible weeds, none exemplifies…
By Bob Hansler via Era of Wisdom A demonstration of southern foraging highlighting many of the edibles and useful plants and wildlife along the way. A basic overview of foraging technique with a great many examples. Source: Southern Foraging Snap-Shot -Summer- Basic Tips and Technique Bob Hansler…
By John Kohler In this episode, John from Growing Your Greens takes you around a tour of his springtime garden and shares with you some of the bolting vegetables and how he likes to eat some of the flowers. You will learn about some of the nutritional…
