This recipe is adapted from the Sushi Salad recipe in Sea Vegetable Gourmet Cookbook and Wildcrafter’s Guide. We use Nori (Porphyra spp.) in the salad. Nori is by far the highest protein sea vegetable...

In the fall, the plants return their vital energy to their roots as they prepare for the cold, dormant winter. So this is the optimal time to dig and harvest the roots – burdock, dandelion, comfrey… Sassafras, Sarsaparilla…

Here at our house, since the weather has changed, we’ve been dealing with on-going coughs. It’s so common for the change from warm sunny summer to colder, windier fall to lead to colds and coughs we wanted to give you a recipe for a honey cough syrup...

Oh, and I love the food this time of year. Today we’re making applesauce with the apples from the tree we planted on Hailey’s first birthday. This last weekend I made pumpkin muffins, and froze more pumpkin for pies, bread, and pumpkin pudding. Yum!

I used to use lots of different herbs for coughs, but the one I use the most is Elecampane (Inula helenium). It's my favorite home remedy for cough...