It’s National Weed Your Garden Week – But hold on, friends! Don’t toss those weeds on the compost pile just yet! There is a lot of good food in them weeds and it's FREE!
I review 7 weeds with fantastic medicinal and nutritional benefits that you can add to a salad, tea, or infusion. In addition, I’ll mention some of my favorite weeding tools.
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My Garden Journal: A How To Garden Book For Kids|
Gardening is a learned skill – everyone has to start somewhere, and a journal provides the best way to improve your gardening skills to ensure more successes and fewer failures.
The intent of this journal is to simultaneously teach basic gardening techniques while providing a place to record your journey with important information about the “how, when, and where” to grow food and flowers.
There are suggestions on themed gardens such as “A Harry Potter Garden”, “A Young Chef's Garden”, or a “Monarch Butterfly Superhero Garden” for budding Naturalists and places to either sketch or photograph your plants to remember their appearance for the next growing season.
Judy Hooper Buonocore – Picture Credit, used with permission
I apologize for some of the audio. During our interview, we had internet connections problems. Sometimes she couldn't hear me, and sometimes I couldn't listen to her. I cleaned the audio up as best I could.
Today we're learning some of the techniques of mushroom foraging from seasoned mushroom hunter Judy Bunonocore. She shares with us how she learned about mushroom foraging. She offers suggestions on beginning mushroom foraging, cleaning and storing your precious finds, books, and mushroom societies that teach foraging here in the northeast, and so much more.
Laetiporus sulphureus (aka Chicken of the Woods) Picture Credit Google Images Creative Commons
Grifola frondosa – Hen of the Woods or Maitake – Picture Credit Google Images Creative Commons
Box of Maitake Mushrooms harvested by Judy and her husband Summer 2021 – Picture Credit Brenda J. Sullivan
Meripilus sumstinei – Rooster of the Woods Picture Credit Google Images Creative Commons
Wild Shiitake Mushroom- Japan Picture Credit Google Images Creative Commons
Trametes Versicolor – Turkey Tail (True Turkey Tail NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH False Turkey Tail – Picture Credit Google Images Creative Commons
Here is a simple way to distinguish between a “true” Turkey Tail and a False Turkey Tail mushroom. (source)
Look at the underside of the mushroom to see if it is entirely smooth. There are a few studies out there that suggest that Stereum ostrae (False Turkey Tail) may have some antibiotic properties (source). However, more research is needed.
Cantharellus roseocanus – Chanterelle Mushroom – Picture Credit Google Images
Learn Your Land – with Adam Haritan Learn Your Land is a media channel created with the intention to help you develop a connection to nature one species at a time.
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My Garden Journal: A How To Garden Book For Kids| Gardening is a learned skill – everyone has to start somewhere, and a journal provides the best way to improve your gardening skills to ensure more successes and fewer failures.
The intent of this journal is to simultaneously teach basic gardening techniques while providing a place to record your journey with important information about the “how, when, and where” to grow food and flowers.
There are suggestions on themed gardens such as “A Harry Potter Garden”, “A Young Chef's Garden”, or a “Monarch Butterfly Superhero Garden” for budding Naturalists and places to either sketch or photograph your plants to remember their appearance for the next growing season.
You'll be amazed at how much you will learn by journaling about your garden!
Music
A special thank you to Gene Tullio for writing and producing this music. He has given me special permission to use this song for the show.
Gene's music can be downloaded from Amazon, iTunes, and Spotify. For more information please contact him at dreamshipmusic@gmail.com
Album: The Dreamship| The Forge Of Life| Copyright 2018
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We recorded this show live on Clubhouse and Facebook with my Co-host Theresa Valendzas from Altraform Every Sunday at 10 AM EST we've been hosting a show called Herb Talk. Please come us!
We talk about the ethics of foraging, books I recommend to help identify plants and easy plants to identify if you're a beginner.
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Dead Nettle Close up – It's a wonderful medicinal Plant! Picture by Brenda J. Sullivan (Click Here to View Picture)
Medicinal Uses
Dead Nettle has flavonoids, polyphenols compounds, and antioxidant properties, including quercetin which offers a broad range of health benefits, such as boosting the immune system, improving the cardiovascular system and gut microbiome.
This species also has anti-inflammatory properties, relieves pain helps prevent secondary sinus infections in the upper and lower respiratory tract caused by allergies.
Safety
Moderation is key, overuse of this plant can cause diarrhea.
Dosage
Nutritive Infusion:
A general rule for measuring out dried herbs:
1 oz per quart
2 oz per 1/2 gallon
Place the dried herb in a glass jar (be careful not to use a cold jar. It will break), pour just off the boil hot water over the herb and stir well and cover for 24 hours.
Strain the plant matter and put it in the compost. Drink all day long or refrigerate for up to 3 days.
Tea
One heaping teaspoon of dried herb in one cup off the boil water. Let steep 10 minutes. Strain and drink as often desired.
Tincture
1-2 ml 3x/day (1:5 in 40%)
Food
Smoothies, salads, stir frys, casseroles
Dead Nettle grows in many parts of the world. Check out my Youtube Video – Click Here to View Video
Violets (Viola Tricolor aka Jonny-Jump-Up)- Flowers and leaves are edible even if the plant is past the flowering stage. Picture by Brenda J. Sullivan (Click Here to View Picture)
The leaves are used in folk medicine for fevers; it's a mild laxative, gargle for sore throats, considered a diuretic, expectorant, mild sedative, blood purifier. Its also been used for asthma, heart palpitations, skin eruptions such as eczema.
According to the Peterson Field Guide to Medicinal Plants and Herbs of Eastern and Central North America (pg 234), studies on rats have confirmed violets have antioxidants, anthocyanins which helped control skin issues.
Violets make a beautiful addition to any dessert or salad, even if you're not looking for a medicinal benefit.
Feverfew – Tanacetum parthenium – another wonderful wild medicinal plant. Picture by Brenda J. Sullivan (Click Here to View Picture)
This plant is original to the Balkan Peninsula and escaped cultivation and is now wild in North and South America and most of Europe. Feverfew has an active constituent parthenolide which is a compound used to help control migraines. However, there are other remedies this plant is good for other than preventing migraines. It known to help with arthritis, colds, fevers, cramps, worms, regulates menses.
According to the Peterson Field Guide to Medicinal Plants and Herbs of Eastern and Central North America (pg 122), studies have proven effective if 1 – 4 leaves are chewed per day, preventing the number and duration of migraine attacks. British studies suggest that Feverfew can prevent 70% of migraines.
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Peterson has many different field guides for North America.
Peterson Field Guide to Medicinal Plants and Herbs of Eastern and Central North America, Third Edition (Peterson Field Guides) Paperback – Illustrated, April 8, 2014
Wild Remedies: How to Forage Healing Foods and Craft Your Own Herbal Medicine Paperback – Illustrated, April 7, 2020, Rosalee De LA Foret and Emily Han
The New Edible Wild Plants of Eastern North America: A Field Guide to Edible (and Poisonous) Flowering Plants, Ferns, Mushrooms and Lichens Paperback – October 24, 2019, Merritt Fernald, Alfred Kinsely and Steve Chadde
Farm to Bath| Our philosophy is to live a locally focused naturally beautiful life, a lifestyle choice that is infused into the products we make. The ingredients are locally grown and/or acquired and are as basic and pure as nature itself. Each bar is full of fragrant aromatics that provide a rich moisturizing lather with no artificial colors or preservatives added – naturally beautiful!
This journal keeps track of basic information every gardener needs to know to improve their gardening skills. Plant location, if started from seed versus purchased and from what source. Fertilizing and watering details and if you like the result etc.
There is also a space for a picture or drawing of your plant. The journal pages are a two-page spread for easy note-taking and review. Also included is a resource list of companies that Thompson Street Farm uses in their micro-green operation and nonprofits that offer programs and education on gardening sustainably. Journaling offers an easy way to become a more efficient and more successful gardener!
Music
A special thank you to Gene Tullio for writing and producing this music. He has given me special permission to use this song for the show.
Gene's music can be downloaded from Amazon, iTunes, and Spotify. For more information please contact him at dreamshipmusic@gmail.com
Album: The Dreamship| The Forge Of Life| Copyright 2018
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