By Amanda Rose | Edible Flowers
Amanda’s note: I offer you another post from Carol Little of Studio Botanica. Carol is about as bananas over edible flowers as anyone I’ve ever met and she suggested we need a post here on violets, a favorite spring time flower. We do not have mountains of violets in our area and so I was […]
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By Amanda Rose | Conifers
I have had to train myself to harvest pine needles which feels a bit strange but makes sense: When you grow up with a garden and a tomato harvest every August, you don’t have to train yourself that August is tomato month and that you will be very busy slicing and blanching. Who grows up […]
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By Amanda Rose | Tamarind
Amanda’s note: Here is another wonderful contribution from Ramya Venkateshwaran who writes from her home in India. Ramya describes her family’s method for making tamarind paste along with a must-try recipe. Find her on her website WildTurmeric.net for more ideas on healthy living. ~~~Usually during summer season, here in India, we are busy making homemade […]
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By Amanda Rose | Edible Flowers
It’s a fun time of year when the edible flowers begin their blooming fanfare. Spring came a bit early to California but if these flowers are still shivering in your area, you have a few weeks to think about these cookies. 🙂 Harvesting lilacs as edibles is simple: Cut a dozen flowers and remove their […]
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By Amanda Rose | Edible Flowers
“Lilacs in bloom” are our main sign that spring has come and it is actually here to stay. We get daffodils before the lilacs and narcissus before the daffodils but, without fail, those flowers shiver in the cold and end up covered in snow as they bloom. Lilac flowers come just as the deciduous oaks […]
Continue readingBy Amanda Rose | Nettle
We love, love, love, love stinging nettle as a food. We harvest this wild green regularly and use it primarily in our very dense greens soup. Five years ago I would not have imagined that I would be harvesting nettle regularly. Even the slightest brush up against it would leave me with an aching rash […]
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