

Flowers Are the Secret To Joy (Isn’t ‘Flow’ imbedded in flower?)
(Photos Top Clockwise: Wild Rose, Chicory, Crab Apple and Honeysuckle. Living without passion? Try Wild Rose flower essence. Do you need...


Stinging Nettles: Choice Medicinal / Edible of Herbalists
BLOG 26: Witnessing the first green plants emerge in spring is very exciting for us North-Easterners. These guys certainly make us happy...


What is your Re-Wilding Score?
BLOG 25: A Predictable transition from Winter to Spring is very important for foragers...human and animal alike. For example, when Robins...


Ancient Medicinal Mushroom
BLOG 24: Wow, after a couple of weeks of brutal winter temps, many days below -35 degrees Celsius and with record snowfalls, this...


LITTLE NEST POLYPORE
BLOG 24: The ‘Little Nest Polypore’ can be mistaken for bird nest fungi and even cup fungi (at its early stages, see cups in photo). It...


Flu fighter Phellinus
BLOG 23: I have seen mostly Phellinus species during my hikes lately. Right now in the stark cold of January in Canada, I wonder why...


Chaga: King of the Mushrooms
BLOG 21: I find the traditional and current knowledge surrounding daily tonics and adaptogens to be extremely interesting and important...


The Red Belted Polypore
BLOG 22: Most herbalists and mushroom hunters have understood for a long time how the practice of hunting and gathering wild foods,...


The Beauty and Power of Turkey Tail
BLOG 20*: It seems we Canadians are the last to learn about awesome stuff with respect to our health, like the importance of consuming...


St. Johnswort Oil
BLOG 19: St. Johnwort medicinal herb begins to bloom in my region of West Québec on the 24th of June. ‘Wort’ is simply an ancient word...