I can so clearly remember picking bouquets of Dandelions to present to my ever appreciative mother and now I have my own little girl gleefully bringing me countless bright bunches that are closing and drooping even as they are being offered.

Chickweed seems to be one of the first plants that new foragers go hunting for.  In the region where I live, it is more common that grass, growing throughout the lawn, snuggling up to the house, and peeping out from beneath fallen leaves and pine boughs...

This Month, The Essential herbal share an entire issue of their wonderful magazine. Featuring "Medicine and Beauty from the Sea" by Gail Faith Edwards, Tasty Tea Herbs, all about Elder, Lavender cookies, a Crossword puzzle, and much more....

In our on-going experiment of taking wild foods to market and trying them out on our patrons, yesterday we took some rosehips from the huge Rosa rugosa on the hillside. The hips are dense and succulent right now, and I figured that if nobody wanted them at market, they could go into a jelly or syrup. In the afternoon, I made syrup :-). We had a professional chicken wrangler (sister-in-law Pam) help us with the harvest, by the way...