I love every month of the year. The special thing about November is a pomegranate fruit. This red royal berry (the size of an orange:-) comes from Persia, and is well known, appreciated and enjoyed in the Middle East, and South Asia from Mediterranean to Himalayas including India. I remember eating juicy red seeds as …
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Pomegranate – ancient royal fruit to brighten your season
Wild cherry cough syrup
Collecting wild cherries During second part of August is a perfect time to collect wild cherries. They can be a little dry and astringent when they are not completely ripe and therefore they are great for jam. But what I discovered several years ago was even better: wild cherry cough syrup! If you have a …
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Fiddlehead fern – delicious spring wild edible
Right now, in the late May forest, the green fronds of ostrich fern are unfurling; so why not catch the fiddleheads while some of them are still curled in a ball! This plant is called Matteuccia Struthiopteros, which combines both Latin “struthio” – ostrich, and Greek “pteris” – wing. This plant also goes by the …
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Wild leek pesto – first spring vitamins from the forest
If you are in the woods these days you might notice the first large wild green of the season. The forest floor is still pretty bare, and these islands of green are really bright. It is a wild leek, or ramp, or wild bear onion (allium tricoccum). It loves shady wet areas. Smart bears love …
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Pine Elixir
What do you do in the midst of Wisconsin’s icy snow storm at the end of April? You cheerfully go outside and collect freshly frozen pine needle clusters that are glistening in a crystal clear armor of ice. You collect it all, pine needles and ice, as icy water is structured water. During freezing water …
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Strawberry Facial Mask
Strawberries are great cleansers, they clean and close the pores due to salicylic acid, that removes the dead skin cells. Antioxidant ellagic acid helps with maintaining health and youth of your skin. Astringent agents and vitamin C in strawberries help to calm and sooth puffiness and circles under your eyes and also help with regenerating …
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Wild yeast bread recipe
If you are still eating gluten, this post might be of interest to you. With my affection for everything natural, I have started making bread with wild yeast. What is wild yeast? Basically the idea is that there is natural yeast bacteria in the air, so by exposing your flour and water mixture to air …
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