Mulberries Are NOT Just For The Birds

Mulberries are wildly underrated, in my opinion. The trees grow more or less like weeds, the berries are sweet, tasty and loaded …

Eat Your Weeds: Wood Sorrel, Yukon Gold & Egg Salad with Shallot Vinaigrette

Have you ever eaten wood sorrel? If not, you need to try some - it's fresh and wonderfully lemony. I am in love with this com…

Eat Your Weeds - Purslane

If you garden at all, you're probably familiar with purslane since it's a pretty common weed. But that's just one way…

Elderberry: The People's Medicine Chest

Those dark purple jewels are elderberries ( sambucus nigra ) that I recently foraged along with a bevy of blackberries . I often …

Nourished By Mother Nature

That lovely sunset is compliments of Mother Nature and Aruba. Betchya didn't even know I had snuck away, did ya? Yes, my Hun…

Way Down Yonder In The Pawpaw Patch

When it's not cold and wet, boy oh boy, do I love autumn. We had a picture-perfect day yesterday: the bluest of blue skies an…

Fall Is In The Air & So Are Concord Grapes

The leaves are beginning to change...days and nights are getting cooler. I know autumn is fast approaching because my Siberian hu…

Let's Go Wild For Blackberries

It's blackberry season and I spent an afternoon foraging in the nearby woods for the luscious ripe berries. My arms are loade…