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Historical Notes about Cranberries

I think that this information is probably going to surprise some people, but the way we use cranberries for sauces and fermented beverages is a very old practice from Northern Europe. Vaccinium...

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Making Distillates at Home

Pot distillation has been around for a very long time and the oldest methods involved simmering plants in liquid and collecting the liquid that cooked off them which I refer to as the distillate....

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#notmyelders

My people were dirt poor. My grandfather lived in a little shack on the banks of the Maquoketa River, with his parents and eleven siblings. His mother helped deliver the babies in that little...

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Old World Gourds & Their Uses

As you  might know,  I don’t write about indigenous North Americans’ use of  plants.  There is undoubtedly a rich and varied history of indigenous plant use,  but that is not my history to tell.  It’s...

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Historical Notes About Goldenrod

I wrote this article back in 2016, for Natural Herbal Living Magazine but I had to throw it up on the blog today because someone called goldenrod a weed and I felt like sticking up for one of my...

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