In a rush with less ingredients on hand, I made the same smoothie from the previous post, but without the mango.  I thought maybe it would not be sweet enough, but there’s something the lemon does when blended with the rind and everything that makes it taste sweet — somehow the zesty-ness makes it taste sweeter.  Maybe sweeter is not the word, but it works.

The mango one tasted better for sure, but  no trouble at all getting down the same quantity of green smoothie.

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New Online Store Added

The Launch of Good Weeds

From my own personal cache, I’m offering some locally foraged edibles through my new online store. 

On the Good Weeds Etsy store, created with the help of Lauren Henry, you can now purchase roasted bay nuts, pine pollen and elderberry tinctures.  More to come, including salsify seeds, a tincture for dreams, and horseweed spice!  Click here to visit the new online store!  Everything was made and locally foraged by me in the Bay Area, California.

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Food Walk in Mega Diverse Edible Landscape ,July 28, 10am-12 am $40 (Lafayette, CA)

Local Staples: Acorns July 29, 2012 $25 (Lafayette) (Crash course in turning acorns into food)

Food Walk:  Forage for Autumnberries!  August 19, 10am-12 am $40 (Lafayette, CA)

Autumnberries have many names.  Elaeagnus, Autumn Olives, and locally “inside-out berries.”  These plants are amazing!  They fix nitrogen in the soil, grow with little or no care, produce ridiculous amounts of fruit that are unique and delicious.  They are also nutritionally considered to be super food, not only with omega 3 fatty acids (very rare plants) but also 17 times the lycopene as tomatoes!

A general tour of other edible and wild plants nearby will also be available.

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Because of the dry season, the diversity of edible parts of the plants greatly diminishes in many areas.  My regular location, Sienna Ranch in Lafayette, is drying out very quickly as the sun quickens towards the Solstice.  The class this Saturday, June 23 will be the LAST of its kind in this location until likely December, after the rains have returned.

The new location is a garden and edible landscape.  Many plants growing there are wild — the same ones that are dried out just outside the deer fence. Inside the fence, however, some plants get irrigation, mulch and minerals have been added, and many edges (or ecozones) have been created by design — the landscape has been enhanced, and serves an oasis for many birds, reptiles, and other wildlife.  Locally, in the summer dry season, it’s the place to be. This landscape also boasts more different types of edible (and non-edible) plants growing in 3/4 an acre than anywhere else I know locally.

We are going to begin there on Saturday, June 30, in the morning.

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