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In honour of The Mom Market happening in Vernon on Sunday, at the Vernon Rec Centre, why not colour a page featuring foods and a scene from our foraging travels around the Central Okanagan? These pages have been created from photos we have taken in recent years.
Check out this page of freebies on my coaching site: https://naturalhealthgodsway.ca/free-tools/
For Mom, and everyone in general, there are also sample grocery lists, a sample food chart, and a short pie quiz to help you figure out how your health and satisfaction with life is being affected right now.
Not getting out much in this heat, but here's a little about some foraging done Thursday and Friday this week.
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All things in moderation. There are recipes for making your own nut milks that don't have the carrageenan additive. The anthracyanins contained in almonds are also available in many dark-skinned fruits and berries. It is typically recommended to have just a small handful of almonds per day, not several cups of them as you would end up consuming as a milk replacement.
If you live in Canada, your dairy comes from grass-fed cows regardless, as all they get fed most of the year is hay from open hay fields and many ranchers have permits to allow their cattle to range feed across wide swaths of either crown land or other privately-held tracts of pasture land. We have such a herd that goes right past the barn where we keep our horse.
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When you need to relax, but you're a creative! Also, when you need a break from depression lane, I mean social platform and news website newsfeeds!
I'm brainstorming a DVBS around foraging and the Gospel message, but. . . well . . . one thing leads to another and before I know it, I've come up with outlines that look more like day camps or full-on cabin-style kids camps around the subject! I've got crafts, foraging how-to's, Bible lessons, Sunday school songs, team leader notes, practical applications through the week, and an awards dinner at the end! Some days are more fleshed out than others, but I realized just now, for DVBS only, follow the pre-lesson craft and lesson, and do the foraging run scrapbook. For Day camp, follow day camp outlines, and for kids camp cabin-style, follow cabin-style camp outlines. . . It seems I can't just brainstorm one aspect, I brainstorm it all!
On top of that, I began brainstorming without an idea of the age bracket I was going for. Turns out that just the DVBS could work for kids as young as 7 up to 15, while the day camp and kids camp outlines would work best for the 10 to 15 age groups.
I know there are Christian versions of scouts out there and that they teach wilderness survival already. But this is just the foraging aspect, and how it benefits us for food, medicine and hygiene, while going through Scripture each day as we see various foraging understandings displayed in these passages. Of course you can't have a DVBS, day camp or kids camp without extending the Gospel message! So it tickled me a little to remember that one foraging story led to one of Jesus' earthly great grandmothers. No promises of course that getting into foraging will lead you to your significant other and position you to change the course of history, but the story is included in my brainstorming anyway.
Otherwise I'm sitting here thinking that the tea samples to be brewed up tonight, won't be available as sip samples at tomorrow's afternoon fair. Daytime temperatures won't make that feasible, spoiling the samples by mid-way through the fair if not sooner. We'll see. I don't have a way to ensure they all stay ice cold after steeping.
Well, it's the eve of wellness fair weekend again. This time, the wellness fair is at a winery in South East Kelowna, at The Vibrant Vine on Sunday from 12pm to 5pm. I will be there offering my Biblical Natural Health Coaching along with my daughter selling her wildcrafted looseleaf teas. I'll have three of my books out on the table as well: My Foraging Notebook, 38 Nutritional/Medicinal Profiles, and Mom's Little Black Book of Skincare & Make-up. I'd hoped to have these on the table at the June wellness fair, but they didn't arrive in time. These books are also available on my website via Lulu, or direct from Lulu, AND Lulu ships to Canada! That's big news for me these days!
I finally dug up the purslane recipes I've been pdf'ing from around the 'net, and only one requires cooking, so minus that one, I think I have what it takes to make a good stab at the neighbour's purslane-covered paddock.
We ate simple burgers for dinner tonight, with Ashley and I adding wild mustard weed, dandelion, and prickly lettuce to our burgers, and both of us really liked how the flavours went together. I found myself wondering what it might taste like if I made my curly dock bread and used that for the bun. Then of course my brain added the wild ash salt and peppergrass. I did spread my bun with my riccotta cheese sauce.
The need to go shopping is still there, but I'm figuring out how our foraging can do more than just teas, salads, medicines, and personal hygiene.
To see pictures and read more late Friday evening banter, click through to: https://naturalhealthgodsway.c....a/2024/07/12/next-we
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