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Turkey tail mushrooms are a great first forage, as this colorful species is easy to spot, has no dangerous lookalikes and offers a wealth of immunity benefits! 📸 Barbora Batokova/Adobe Stock, ✍️ Melissa Calhoun Costumes, Foods, Wellness, Winter Wellness, Greenland, Food, Ingredients, Veggie Burger, Wellness Support
Turkey Tail Mushrooms Are Colorful, Beneficial
Turkey tail mushrooms are a great first forage, as this colorful species is easy to spot, has no dangerous lookalikes and offers a wealth of immunity benefits! 📸 Barbora Batokova/Adobe Stock, ✍️ Melissa Calhoun
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Mullein is a common plant used since ancient times to soothe a host of maladies, from skin problems to infections and even respiratory issues. 📸, ✍️ Carol Mowdy Bond Urinary Tract Infection, Soothe, Dry Leaf, Plant Species, Foraging, Antioxidants, Infections, How To Stop Coughing, Growing
Grow Mullein For Its Powerful Antioxidant Properties
Mullein is a common plant used since ancient times to soothe a host of maladies, from skin problems to infections and even respiratory issues. 📸, ✍️ Carol Mowdy Bond
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Hobby Farms Magazine
Passion vine (also known as passionflower, maypop and other names) is native to the eastern U.S. and offers foragers a wealth of benefits from all parts of the plant. 📸 Gerry/Adobe Stock, ✍️ Melissa Calhoun Passion Flower, Vine Fruit, Vine Leaves, Flowering Vines, Climbing Hydrangea, Flowers Perennials, Hyacinth Bean Vine, Vines, Fall Flowers
Passion Vine Is A Perfect Native Foraging Find
Passion vine (also known as passionflower, maypop and other names) is native to the eastern U.S. and offers foragers a wealth of benefits from all parts of the plant. 📸 Gerry/Adobe Stock, ✍️ Melissa Calhoun
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Hobby Farms Magazine
You'll find plantain in broad- and narrowleaf varieties, both of which can be harvested and prepared to aid with digestion, skin issues and more. 📸, ✍️ Melissa Calhoun Health, Digestion Aid, Fresh Green, Digestion, Herbalism, Harvest, Herbal Medicine, Healing Tea
Pick Plantain To Help Maintain Your Health & Comfort
You'll find plantain in broad- and narrowleaf varieties, both of which can be harvested and prepared to aid with digestion, skin issues and more. 📸, ✍️ Melissa Calhoun
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Hobby Farms Magazine
It's a mast year for acorns, but why we don't eat these nuts? Zach Loeks set out on a longboard to find the sweetest oaks with hopes of planting more trees with better flavor. 📸 yujie/Adobe Stock, ✍️ Zach Loeks Adventure, Trees, Wild, Masts, Stock, Longboard, Edible, Eat, Farm
A Nutty Adventure: Enjoying A Mast Year For Acorns
It's a mast year for acorns, but why we don't eat these nuts? Zach Loeks set out on a longboard to find the sweetest oaks with hopes of planting more trees with better flavor. 📸 yujie/Adobe Stock, ✍️ Zach Loeks
Hobby Farms Magazine
Hobby Farms Magazine
A jewel of a wild plant, jewelweed, with its distinctive yellow and orange flowers, is both lovely and a welcome aid to anyone who encounters poison ivy. 📸, ✍️ Melissa Calhoun Herbs, Poison Ivy Remedies, Wild Edibles, Poison Ivy, Poison, Yarrow, Wild Plants, Prune
Jewelweed Is A Lovely Find With A Soothing Cleanse
A jewel of a wild plant, jewelweed, with its distinctive yellow and orange flowers, is both lovely and a welcome aid to anyone who encounters poison ivy. 📸, ✍️ Melissa Calhoun
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Hobby Farms Magazine
Purple clover is great for soil and livestock, and we humans can forage and benefit from this healthy herb, too. Here's how to ID, forage and use purple clover. 📸 breakingthewalls/Adobe Stock, ✍️ Melissa Calhoun Plants, Flowers, Dried Flowers, Flowers And Leaves, Flower Farmer, Clover Flower, Pink Petals, Bloom, Petals
Pick Purple Clover For Its Many Health Benefits
Purple clover is great for soil and livestock, and we humans can forage and benefit from this healthy herb, too. Here's how to ID, forage and use purple clover. 📸 breakingthewalls/Adobe Stock, ✍️ Melissa Calhoun
Hobby Farms Magazine
Hobby Farms Magazine
Our environments benefit from more edible landscapes, so author Zach Loeks is walking across Winnipeg multiple times to determine the city's potential foodscape future. 📸, ✍️ Zach Loeks Reveal, Author, Landscape, City, Urban Area, Food Forest, Street Trees, Hobby Farms
Walking A City Reveals Potential For Edible Landscapes
Our environments benefit from more edible landscapes, so author Zach Loeks is walking across Winnipeg multiple times to determine the city's potential foodscape future. 📸, ✍️ Zach Loeks
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Hobby Farms Magazine
Long used for its heart toning qualities and as a remedy for colds and other ailments, wild cherry is an easily foraged tree and traditional medicine powerhouse. 📸, ✍️ Melissa Calhoun Farms, Tree Seedlings, Seedlings, Plant Growth, Canning Jars
Forage Wild Cherry To Support Wellness
Long used for its heart toning qualities and as a remedy for colds and other ailments, wild cherry is an easily foraged tree and traditional medicine powerhouse. 📸, ✍️ Melissa Calhoun
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Hobby Farms Magazine
It's almost time to forage for wild strawberries, a flavorful fruit that's both an ephemeral treat and relatively safe for even novice food finders. 📸 Armando Frazão/Adobe Stock, ✍️ Rodney Wilson Summer, Seeds, Fruit, Strawberry Varieties, Wild Strawberries, Wild Berry, Sowing, Growing Strawberries, Red Fruit
Forage Wild Strawberries For A Springtime Treat!
It's almost time to forage for wild strawberries, a flavorful fruit that's both an ephemeral treat and relatively safe for even novice food finders. 📸 Armando Frazão/Adobe Stock, ✍️ Rodney Wilson
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Hobby Farms Magazine
Harvest common chickweed for its cooling, drawing and nutritive benefits in salads, soups and teas. It's a beneficial and easy-to-find forage! 📸, ✍️ Melissa Calhoun Teas, Chickweed, Seed Pods, Flowering Creepers, Mulch
Get Chuffed for Chickweed’s Soothing Properties
Harvest common chickweed for its cooling, drawing and nutritive benefits in salads, soups and teas. It's a beneficial and easy-to-find forage! 📸, ✍️ Melissa Calhoun
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Hobby Farms Magazine
Cleavers are a common plant, often found in sunny areas, so forage and use this traveling seed bearer to cleanse and support your lymphatic system. 📸, ✍️ Melissa Calhoun Lymphatic System, Herbs For Health, Growers
Collect Cleavers (Galium Aparine) For Lymphatic Benefits
Cleavers are a common plant, often found in sunny areas, so forage and use this traveling seed bearer to cleanse and support your lymphatic system. 📸, ✍️ Melissa Calhoun
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Hobby Farms Magazine
Prolific and pleasantly pungent, wild garlic is packed with as much flavor as its grocery-store counterpart and offers a wealth of health benefits, too. 📸 , ✍️ Melissa Calhoun Garlic, Gardening, Aromas, Wild Garlic, Onion
Forage Wild Garlic (Or Onion Grass) For Flavorful Goodness
Prolific and pleasantly pungent, wild garlic is packed with as much flavor as its grocery-store counterpart and offers a wealth of health benefits, too. 📸 , ✍️ Melissa Calhoun
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Hobby Farms Magazine
Make some simmering stovetop potpourri from items in the pantry (or the woods) to fill your home with some welcoming, festive holiday scents! 📸 Sonja Calovini/AdobeStock, ✍️ Michelle Bruhn Potpourri, Diy, Mason Jars, Simmering Potpourri, Potpourri Recipes, Stove Top, Holiday Scents, Mason Jar Cocktails
Make DIY Stovetop Potpourri For Seasonal Simmering
Make some simmering stovetop potpourri from items in the pantry (or the woods) to fill your home with some welcoming, festive holiday scents! 📸 Sonja Calovini/AdobeStock, ✍️ Michelle Bruhn
Hobby Farms Magazine
Hobby Farms Magazine
Adventure Scientists group seeks tree DNA samples to build massive tree genetics reference library through their Timber Tracking project. 📸 Adventure Scientists ✍️ Susan Brackney Nature, Pacific Northwest, Forest Service, Tree Identification, Citizen Science, Habitats, Oak Tree
You Can Help Timber Tracking Researchers Protect Eastern White Oak Trees
Adventure Scientists group seeks tree DNA samples to build massive tree genetics reference library through their Timber Tracking project. 📸 Adventure Scientists ✍️ Susan Brackney
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Hobby Farms Magazine
In this excerpt from his upcoming book, "Wild Plant Culture," author Jared Rosenbaum looks at weeds—what they are and best ways to approach these plants. 📸 Taste the Image/AdobeStock ✍️ Jared Rosenbaum People, Vegetable Garden, Invasive Plants, Garden Weeds, Foxtail Grass
Weeds—When Not To Worry (Excerpt: “Wild Plant Culture”)
In this excerpt from his upcoming book, "Wild Plant Culture," author Jared Rosenbaum looks at weeds—what they are and best ways to approach these plants. 📸 Taste the Image/AdobeStock ✍️ Jared Rosenbaum
Hobby Farms Magazine
Hobby Farms Magazine
Monarda fistulosa, or beebalm, grows wild across most of the U.S. and offers a wealth of valuable uses—culinary, medical and beyond. 📸, ✍ Bevin Cohen Herb Garden, Medicinal Herbs, Bug Bites
Video: Forage Wild Monarda (Beebalm) For Its Many Uses
Monarda fistulosa, or beebalm, grows wild across most of the U.S. and offers a wealth of valuable uses—culinary, medical and beyond. 📸, ✍ Bevin Cohen
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Hobby Farms Magazine
Stinging nettles are often regarded as pesky weeds, but learn to recognize and harvest the plant for their nutritional and medicinal value! 📸, ✍ Bevin Cohen Nutrition, Nettle
How To Harvest Stinging Nettles (Video)
Stinging nettles are often regarded as pesky weeds, but learn to recognize and harvest the plant for their nutritional and medicinal value! 📸, ✍ Bevin Cohen
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Hobby Farms Magazine
The dandelion gets a bad rap, but this common herb offers a wealth of benefits in the kitchen, the apothecary and even the wine cellar! 📸, ✍ Bevin Cohen Art, Wines, Dandelion Uses, Dandelion Root, Dandelion Plant, Dandelion Wine, Dandelion Yellow, Herb
From The Herb Garden: Dandelion Is More Than A Weed!
The dandelion gets a bad rap, but this common herb offers a wealth of benefits in the kitchen, the apothecary and even the wine cellar! 📸, ✍ Bevin Cohen
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Hobby Farms Magazine
Plentiful and available year-round, oyster mushrooms are easy to spot. In this video, we look at finding, cleaning and drying foraged mushrooms. 📸, ✍ Susan Brackney Stuffed Mushrooms, Camping, Cleaning, Oysters, Dried
Foraging, Drying & Storing Oyster Mushrooms (Video)
Plentiful and available year-round, oyster mushrooms are easy to spot. In this video, we look at finding, cleaning and drying foraged mushrooms. 📸, ✍ Susan Brackney
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Hobby Farms Magazine
After the season's bees and butterflies have gone, why not transform those dried-up milkweed stalks into handmade paper? Here's how to make some of your own. 📸, ✍️ Susan Brackney Crafts, Diy Projects, Paper Crafts, Recycled Paper, How To Make Paper, Milkweed, Handmade Paper, Washing Soda
How To Make Paper From Milkweed Fiber
After the season's bees and butterflies have gone, why not transform those dried-up milkweed stalks into handmade paper? Here's how to make some of your own. 📸, ✍️ Susan Brackney
Hobby Farms Magazine
Hobby Farms Magazine
In this excerpt from "How to Forage Mushrooms without Dying," Frank Hyman talks about foraging oyster mushrooms, preparing and preserving them and more. 📸 Jolanda Aalbers/Shutterstock ✍ Frank Hyman Mushroom Cultivation, Wheat Straw, Food Source, Grow Your Own, Deciduous Trees
Oyster Mushrooms Are Tasty & Easy To Find In The Wild
In this excerpt from "How to Forage Mushrooms without Dying," Frank Hyman talks about foraging oyster mushrooms, preparing and preserving them and more. 📸 Jolanda Aalbers/Shutterstock ✍ Frank Hyman
Hobby Farms Magazine
Hobby Farms Magazine
Once grown widely for both its seeds and leaves, lamb's quarters has fallen out of favor in recent years. But foragers know the plant's true value. 📸 Bernell MacDonald/Pixabay ✍ Victoria Van Harlingen Garten, Garden, Pigweed, Crop Land, Plant Identification
Lamb’s Quarters Are A Controversial Forage Find
Once grown widely for both its seeds and leaves, lamb's quarters has fallen out of favor in recent years. But foragers know the plant's true value. 📸 Bernell MacDonald/Pixabay ✍ Victoria Van Harlingen
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Hobby Farms Magazine
In this excerpt from "How to Forage Mushrooms without Dying," Frank Hyman takes a look at a favorite, flavorful fungus: Chicken of the Woods. 📸 Jaroslav Machacek/stockadobe.com Goats, Goat Milking Stand, Livestock, Chicken Of The Woods, Goat
Yes, Chicken Of The Woods Tastes Like Chicken
In this excerpt from "How to Forage Mushrooms without Dying," Frank Hyman takes a look at a favorite, flavorful fungus: Chicken of the Woods. 📸 Jaroslav Machacek/stockadobe.com
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Hobby Farms Magazine
There are more reasons to love than hate those dandelions in your yard, so consider leaving and even using the bright yellow blooms of this versatile plant! 📸 Wolfgang Hasselmann/Unsplash Dandelion Seed, Shrubs, Dandelion Leaves, Dandelion Flower, Growing Food, Dandelion
3 Good Reasons To Leave (& Love) Dandelions
There are more reasons to love than hate those dandelions in your yard, so consider leaving and even using the bright yellow blooms of this versatile plant! 📸 Wolfgang Hasselmann/Unsplash
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Hobby Farms Magazine
Hostas are plenty common in ornamental gardens, but did you know you can eat them, too? Both the shoots and leaves are edible and delicious. 📸 Shirley F. Arnold/Shutterstock Gardens, Hostas, Canning, Plant Leaves
You Can (& Should) Eat Those Hostas In Your Garden
Hostas are plenty common in ornamental gardens, but did you know you can eat them, too? Both the shoots and leaves are edible and delicious. 📸 Shirley F. Arnold/Shutterstock
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Hobby Farms Magazine
Clitocybe nuda thrives on layers of organic matter in moist, shady locations. Here's how you can start your own blewit mushroom garden using purchased spawn. Desserts, Grow Your Own Mushrooms, Mushroom Spores
Video: Creating a Woodland Blewit Mushroom Garden
Clitocybe nuda thrives on layers of organic matter in moist, shady locations. Here's how you can start your own blewit mushroom garden using purchased spawn.
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Hobby Farms Magazine
In this excerpt from In Search of Mycotopia, Doug Bierend looks at the fungal world and citizen scientists and microbe devotees studying it. 📸 Doug Bierend Mini, Hobby, Microbes
Excerpt: In Search of Mycotopia (Doug Bierend)
In this excerpt from In Search of Mycotopia, Doug Bierend looks at the fungal world and citizen scientists and microbe devotees studying it. 📸 Doug Bierend
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Hobby Farms Magazine
Though known by a few different names, including Jerusalem artichoke, the tuberous root of a sunchoke makes a sweet, delicious addition to the forager's table. 📸 Frank Hyman Chicken, Protein, Chickens Backyard, Take Out Containers, Chickens, Garden Soil, Best Pickles, Water Chestnuts
Though known by a few different names, including Jerusalem artichoke, the tuberous root of a sunchok
Though known by a few different names, including Jerusalem artichoke, the tuberous root of a sunchoke makes a sweet, delicious addition to the forager's table. 📸 Frank Hyman
Hobby Farms Magazine
Hobby Farms Magazine
Hedgehog mushrooms are easy to learn for new foragers and have a sweet, slightly nutty taste. So don't be afraid—they're worth seeking out. 📷 muuraa/Shutterstock Container Gardening, Planters, Diy Container Gardening, Planting Potatoes, Garden Pots, Garden Projects, Peat Moss, Hypertufa
Don’t Be Afraid To Forage Hedgehog Mushrooms
Hedgehog mushrooms are easy to learn for new foragers and have a sweet, slightly nutty taste. So don't be afraid—they're worth seeking out. 📷 muuraa/Shutterstock
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Hobby Farms Magazine