Foraging and Remembering
Posted in Plants, gardening, holistic health, local food on Nov 30th, 2009
David Wolfe has called these fruit, (not actually berries) Incan berries. So you can buy them at Whole Foods or whathaveyou, often as Incan Berries. You can even go to this site and go to products and buy them.
They are also known as:
poha,
Cape gooseberry
ground cherry
golden berry (or goldenberry).
These superfoods [...]
Posted in Culture, holistic health on Nov 25th, 2009
So many of the health related sites I visit or people I meet are really hung up on the all-raw diet issue. As if we are trying to figure out the ONE diet for everybody. Everybody is different. Like Daniel Quinn suggests, there’s NO ONE RIGHT diet.
Anyway, [...]
Posted in gardening, holistic health, local food on May 3rd, 2009
This is the best drink ever! And it’s the most beautiful green color I have ever seen. Nettles are very high in chlorophyll, way more than even kale and spinach. They are very much like a superfood. Have you ever had that feeling after too many days [...]
Posted in Elaeagnus, ethnobotany, feralculture, gardening, holistic health, invasive species, local food, permaculture, wild food on Sep 7th, 2008
1. This species of Elaeagnus is NOT invasive in my area. “Invasive” meaning in this case, seeds won’t germinate and grow through natural conditions.
2. There are no objective definitions of “invasive” and “native.” Modern ecology tells us that pretty much all ecosystems are recently evolved aggregates. All species [...]
Posted in holistic health on Feb 1st, 2008
The flu, is a term often used to describe influenza. There are all kinds of influenza viruses, the one I’m describing here is the garden variety flu — the one you typically get in “flu season.” Because the flu is caused by a virus, antibiotics don’t help, and they can be dangerous [...]
