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...
View ArticleMaking 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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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...
View ArticleOld 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...
View ArticleHistorical 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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