Welcome to the 28th edition of Wildcrafting Wednesday!
While traditional wildcrafting refers to gathering herbs and plants in the wild to use for food and medicine, this is a blog hop is open to all posts herbal – wild or cultivated – and homesteading related.
Please share your stories on how you incorporate herbs into day-to-day life. We welcome anything and everything herbal – from crafts to cleaning to tinctures to cooking. Home remedies for common ailments are especially appreciated.
Self-sufficient living and back-to-basics tips to save food, money, and resources are great, too – if it involves traditional methods of homemaking and home healing then we want to read about it! Maybe you’ve got a sweet stillroom, a beautiful herb garden or a handy cold frame – tell us about it.
I had the boys put the lid on one of the cold frames in the garden this past weekend, so I’m hopeful the ground will be warm enough in a few weeks to thaw so I can transplant some cold tolerant greens. Are you starting any seeds yet?
If you’re interested in starting some of your own wildflowers/plants from seed, many seeds are available from Mountain Rose Herbs, as well as other mail order seed companies.
The Weekly Weeder posts (where I talk about common garden weeds) will be starting up again in spring. Meanwhile, you can now view all of last season’s posts on the Natural Health page.
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| Many of the plants in this series can be found at Mountain Rose Herbs |
I’m joining up with Kathy at Mind, Body and Sole and Sharon at Wood Wife’s Journal to host Wildcrafting Wednesday, a link up for all things wildcrafting. To view the complete guidelines, see the mullein post. Please add your wildcrafting link below, and then link your post back to one of the hosts sites for the hop.
3 Responses to “Wildcrafting Wednesday – 2/29/2012”
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Hello. I love your wildcrafting offering here. I was just talking with a friend…we were discussing the difficulty of finding books related to wildcrafting in the local libraries and such, even though it has been a life long practice of many here in the Appalachian mountains. I look forward to learning more through your blog.
I do have a question that may or may not be related…I see your dehydrator trays in these photos, I notice that they are round. I have been looking into purchasing a dehydrator and have been torn between round or square, spending lots of money or just a little…wanting to make sure that I get the most for my money so that I can dry herbs, meats, fruits, etc. Would love any feedback that you might have in this area.
Thank you so much!
One of the best things you can do if you’d like to learn about wildcrafting for your area is to find a local mentor, but I know this can be very hard to do. I had two mentors locally – one moved and one passed away.
I purchased the dehydrator in the photos (an American Harvest) when I was a young bride on a tight budget, about 15 years ago, maybe more. It has serve me faithfully all these years. Now that my boys are much bigger (teenagers – they seem like they are always eating) and my dehydrator has started making noises that indicate it may be on its last leg, I think I’ll be investing in an Excalibur (the big square ones). They have a lot more capacity, and you can take out the trays an use the unit for culturing yogurt easily, too. It all depends on your budget and your drying needs. Do a little, and the smaller unit is fine, do a lot, and the bigger unit is well worth the investment.
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