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Survival Adventures: Video: Building a Debris Hut
Learn to make a Debris Hut with Survivalists Paul and Barry Mindich lead the rest of the Suburban Foragers team in creating a shelter out of materials found on the forest floor.
read moreRecipe: Video: Cooking Turkey Ball Soup
Learn to make a delicious turkey ball soup with Chef Lisa.
read moreRecipe: Video: Wilted Ramp Salad
Learn to make a delicious ramp salad with Chef Lisa and Forager Paul
read moreRecipe Quick Tip: Video: Making Virginia Pepperweed Pesto
Learn how to use wild edible Virginia Pepperweed to make a delicious pesto with Chef Lisa and Forager Paul
read moreThe Spring, Summer and Fall of a Dandelion
By Lisa Caccamise Spring is a beautiful season with life blooming all over. Vibrant greens sprouting on the ground, tiny buds on the trees and colorful flowers springing up all over. Did you know that most of the cold tolerant flowers are edible such as pansies, petunias and, oh yea, dandelion? I know, I know, but dandelion is a weed. Well, it’s the give and take of all this beauty around us as with beauty comes the weeds. But to a forager, the beauty is indeed beautiful, but the weeds are even more appealing. The dandelion is one of many...
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Spring: Ephemeral Plants
One of the best things about the spring are those fleeting visitors, the ephemerals. Most of these spring blossoms are here for a couple of weeks or less, then they are gone again until next year. They can be found singly, in clumps or in entire carpets throughout the floor of the woodland, during that brief period before the trees put out their leaves and block out the sun. They are among the few flowers that you can expect to find in April. Spring Beauties (Claytonia virginica) Rue...
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Plant Families: Dandelion
Dandelions Dandelions are part of the Composiate family of plants. These plants cover Asters and Sunflowers. I love looking at dandelions- When they pop up all over a field I get very excited. I know that there will be dandelion tinctures, oils, fritters and if I am feeling ambitious, Dandelion wine, in my future. Brigitte Mars, an herbalist and writer, knew so many things to do with dandelions (both edible and medicinally) that she was able to fill up a book. According to the web site , Wildflowers-and-Weeds.com, here is what can be...
read moreVideo: Survival Adventures: Making a Bowl and Boiling Water
Learn to make a bowl from a tree trunk and boil water in the wild with Survivalists Paul and Barry Mindich
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