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Major recuperation mode today after two foraging hikes Sunday and Monday, and a busy day with various digital things yesterday. Did manage to get some baking done today though. Here’s some pics from the two hikes we did this week.
On Sunday, we gathered some desert parsley, purslane, more arrowleaf balsamroot flowers, some 3-flowered aven leaf, and observed that wild strawberries are starting to return to a former patch! Stonecrop was observed to be growing as well, and we stopped by to say hi to an aging Juniper tree we’ve named “June”.
On Monday, we hiked a different trail where we harvested yet more arrowleaf balsamroot flowers, some saskatoon flowers, a bit of sweet clover, and noted that the sage is starting to grow, as is the tarragon. I had to get a photo of a local sign. St. John’s Wort grows all over the banks near this sign, yet it’s listed in the noxious weed category! The text in the column to the right actually says to remove the noxious weeds! Well then. . . DON’T MIND IF I DO! lol!!! We gathered a fair harvest from that area last year. They aren’t growing as of yet, but when they do, we’ll grab them again this year.
We actually have pineapple weed trying to grow again here at home. Not sure if you can see their furry green tufts in this photo or not, but they’re there! Yaaaaaaaaa
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GOOD NEWS! Apparently Lulu has dropped their $40 setup fee they used to have! I don’t know when they dropped it, but not only is that gone, but I was able to publish my foraging notebook all in one sitting! Secondly, they ship to Canada!!! I ordered a proof copy in order to begin the process of global distribution, but otherwise, the notebook is available for sale here: https://www.lulu.com/shop/mari....lynn-dawson-nhp/my-f The only down side is that wholesale isn’t any better than many of the custom logo-only promotional notebooks out there. Up side to that – for the same cost as only my logo on those promotional sites, THIS notebook contains essential handouts that I’d have given out anyway and had to print anyway! So it’s still a better deal!
Now to look into moving my other 26 books over to Lulu so that Canadians can buy them and get them shipped! That will take a bit of time to do.
This week, we've been very busy foraging around the barn property each evening. Coming home with more purple deadnettle, yarrow, discovered quite a bit of desert parsley we need to grab, and began picking arrowleaf balsomroot flowers for Ashley's aromatic oil by masceration experiment.
She's gathering other ingredients as well, such as cedar trimmings from the hedge being chopped down to size outside our home. Cedar oil is another aromatic people love. But it is also an example of an industry that to this day, is outright lying to buyers who seem more interested in the final scent, than in the reality of the herb that created the scent.
Click through to read what's been happening for well over 200 years! https://naturalhealthgodsway.c....a/2024/04/20/macerat
Once again, if you can’t find what you’re looking for, make it! My Foraging Notebook is now being prepped by Barnes & Noble for publishing in paperback as we speak. The author cost is low enough that I can order in bulk without breaking the bank to hand this book out to attendees of my in-person foraging workshops! I’m also considering having it on our craft fair table alongside an earlier publication: 38 Nutritional/Medicinal Wholefood Profiles that cover many of the festive foods we see on various holiday banquet tables. That puts another thought in my head. . . including my little 80 page book: Mom’s Little Black Book of Skincare & Makeup, subtitled: Be Healthy, Look Healthy. . . that could sit there too. . . hmmm. . .
Well, attempting to put some sort of weekly rhythm into action. Mondays are foraging/errand day, Tuesdays currently, are low-key day, Wednesdays are baking/kitchen days, Thursdays are "deal with the foraging days" which means some level of processing and storing of what has been drying the previous week. Thursdays are also "top up the stocks" days after any fairs we've done the previous weekend. Fridays are fair-prep days if we have one coming that weekend. Fair prep doesn't usually take all day, nor does topping up the sellable tea count, so if necessary, those tasks can double up on other days. Which means I should be going outside to see what needs bagging and what needs blending. . .
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