Year: 2020
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Build a Debris Hut
If your bored stuck at home right now due to Covid-19, you can build a debris hut with your kids! It may take a few days to get all the sticks and leaves together, but once your done, you’ll be left with a dry shelter to hide out in on those rainy days. You’ll need…
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Redbud Salad
Eastern Redbud, Cercis canadensis, is a gorgeous tree that brightens up early Spring all along roadsides in the Eastern United States with pink flowers. It blooms between March and April. You can find them right now if you look. In addition to their beauty they are very tasty, slightly sweet even. They are easy to…
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Dandelion fritters
Dandelions are everywhere and most people at least vaguely know how to identify them. The most common look-alike in our area is Cat’s Ear (Hypochaeris radicata), but it is also edible. Chicory (Cichorium intybus) is frequently confused as well, but the flowers are a blue-purple, not yellow, and it is also edible. Identification: Flowers: The…
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Roasted Dandelion Roots
For dandelion identification tips, please refer to this blog post: https://tracksandroots.com/2020/03/11/dandelion-chips/ Please comment below!
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Pine Needle Tea
Pine needles are bursting with Vitamin C all winter long and can help keep your immune system up and prevent scurvy even in the worst of winters! Please do not use loblolly pine needles (3 needles), as they contain a chemical that can cause long-term health effects. Also do not confuse spruce or fir trees…
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Dandelion Chips
Have you every heard that dandelion greens are edible? Well, they are, but they are quite bitter so it’s best to come prepared for how to deal with that. Identification: Flowers: The common dandelion flowerhead over 100 yellow ray florets and no disk florets; the ray florets spread outward from the center. Inner and outer…
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Chickweed Salad
Chickweed is a sprawling plant with opposite, roundish leaves that can cover the ground like a carpet if allowed. And it’s all edible! Please leave a comment below!
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Field Garlic Hash Browns
[mepr-show rules=”4707″ unauth=”message”] I’m hooked on these delicious Field Garlic Hash Browns. So easy to make, be sure to make this crowd-pleaser before the heat of the spring and summer dries out all of the field garlic leaves! Also, be sure all leaves you collect smell strongly of garlic or onion! [/mepr-show]
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Wild Garlic Butter
[mepr-show rules=”4707″ unauth=”message”] Have you ever been walking through the woods and smelled the strong scent of onion? Well, I have! We have several species of wild onion in the eastern U.S. The most important question is: does it smell strongly like onion or garlic? If so, you mostly likely have an Allium species. Wild…
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Peppermint
Another example of a great medicinal plant is peppermint, which is a mainstay of gardens and often found straying into wooded lots. Peppermint cools your skin, so if you put it on your forehead, it will help relieve a fever and a headache. It inhibits the growth of bacteria, so it’s also great in a…