Some posts may contain affiliate links. Edible Landscape: Eating Hosta Perhaps you have little interest in gardening, gardening has become too arduous for your lifestyle, you don’t have the space for a garden, or your HOA won’t allow vegetable gardening on your property. This could be worrisome if there should be a SHTF event that disrupts …
Some posts may contain affiliate links. 13 Toxic Wild Plants That Look Like Edibles Foraging is something that we talk about learning to do safely often. There may come a day when it is our only option. But in all honesty that concerns me less than the newer forager who mistakes one plant for another …
Some posts may contain affiliate links. FREE Survival eCourses An awesome opportunity to learn more about the wild plant life around us, as well as other survival and nature courses for free! I haven’t yet taken the course myself but intend to do so. It is good know what plants around you are poisonous, edible, …
Some posts may contain affiliate links. A Pictorial Guide to 13 Herbs For all of us visual learners this can be a great tool for learning which herbs are which in their fresh or wild form! It can even be printed out for foraging expeditions done for enjoyment or out of necessity. I am much more …
Foraging for Winter Wild Berries Did anyone else do this as a child? I vividly remember picking wild berries in open fields and along roadsides for my grandmother’s preserves as a child. I know I am aging myself by saying that! As this was back when it wasn’t a legal issue to do so. When I …
Some posts may contain affiliate links. Identifying Little Hogweed & its Benefits From Giant Hogweed & its Dangers Then I came across this article touting the benefits of Little Hogweed for human consumption including recipes! Obviously the difference between the two plants is more than just size. I sounds to me like Little …
Unsafe Foraging Practices Lead to Dire Consequences The majority of survival, prepping and homesteading sites will advise you to learn to safely forage and even give you tips on doing so. We all tell you to forage with caution or you will pay a physical price. But rarely do we graphically tell you just how …
Medicinal Plant MAP I love this map! Even if you are good with plants and know those surrounding you, In a crisis situation you could be forced out of your own area. Those displaced by super storms can tell you the confusion and angst of trying to figure out day to day life in normal …
Some posts may contain affiliate links. Dangerous Beauty – Giant Hogweed Plant At first glance when I saw this article and others on this extremely dangerous plant, I thought it was Queen Anne’s Lace! As you can see from the pictures (the above is Hogweed and the one below is Queen Anne’s Lace) they look …
Poisonous plants quiz At this point I usually tell you that quizzes are really just a fun testing tool and not to take them too seriously. To just use the quiz as a tool to tell you what areas you might want to do some more research. After all who writes them? and what are their …
