By Amanda Rose | Lavender
My boys are avid lemonade fans. Frederick (now 12 years old) makes his own blends as his younger brother (5) looks on and waits patiently. Just to mix it up a bit, I’ve introduced them to lemonade flavors and we find most of those flavors in our own backyard. Luckily, many flavors sit well with […]
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By Amanda Rose | Nettle
I am so excited to report a natural remedy for a nettle leaf rash: the wild green called “lamb’s quarters.” Here in California, lamb’s quarters grows wild along with nettle at some elevations and as I was about to trek into a stand of both, one of my son’s teacher’s said, “If the nettle gets […]
Continue readingBy Amanda Rose | Elderberry
Elder is in full bloom in central California. It blooms from early spring and well into the summer at various elevations here. We harvest in the valley in early spring and into higher elevations as the season passes. Elder loves water and so we find it along creek beds. Some of the bushes have managed […]
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By Amanda Rose | Nettle
This soup recipe may be a great little nugget for you nettle foragers out there. We make use of the immature seed that fell off our nettle harvest in late spring as we processed nettle. The nettle had put on seed heads but the seeds were not so mature that you would plant with them. […]
Continue readingBy Jeanie Rose | Nettle
The development of this amazing power drink comes from a mania I have had since college back in the 1960s. I was obsessed with recouping nutrients most people saw as “throw away”. Obviously, the liquid left in the pot from cooking vegetables or meat, had flavor. It also had to have nutrients. I used it. […]
Continue readingBy Amanda Rose | Conifers
Our adventures on “The Lost Road” turned piney with Frederick’s request for harvesting pine needles and turning them into some sort of dessert (read more here). Thanks to some help on Facebook, I discovered that pine needle infusions were a thing and that we were about to embrace extreme coolness in our activity. Apparently the […]
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