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Pheasant Back or Dryad’s Saddle Mushroom Recipes
Pheasant back mushroom or dryad’s saddle mushroom ( Cerioporus squamosus, aka Polyporus squamosus ). From Wikipedia: The name “dryad’s saddle” refers to creatures in Greek mythology called dryads who …
Ghost Pipe, The Otherworldly Herb
A few weeks back I had an amazing experience, a vision, given to me by Ghost Pipe (Monotropa uniflora). Ghost Pipe has been called Indian …
Post- Pandemic Homesteading
Has the dream of homesteading set sail since the pandemic? Is ‘homesteading’ still relevant today when very few can afford to do it because of …
Beans, Beans the Magical Fruit
I grow lots of beans. Yes, waxy green, yellow and purple pods that wink out at me through summer’s thick vegetation, to be eaten fresh. …
The Accidental Herbalist – Yarrow, St.John’s Wort, Wild Lettuce & Scullcap
The last time I wrote an “Accidental Herbalist” article was a long time ago. Which, considering I There’s a double meaning hidden in this title. …
The Herbalist’s Dilemma: “To be sick or not to be sick, that is the question.”
It’s a funny thing, when I was growing up in the 1970’s, something we all heard over and over is “they can put a man …
Plantain: Traveller’s Talisman
I’ve been reading Martin Shaw’s “Scatterlings” this winter. The message is a wise old one, that “what we’re searching far and wide for, turns out …