Gardening, native plants, medicinal plants, edible plants.
The Eat Your Yard, Edible Plant of the Day is Bee Balm, also known as Wild Bergamot herb. I don’t know about you, but when I hear the term bergamot, I think of the delicious orange-smelling essential oil. Bee Balm, or wild bergamot, does not smell like orange. It smells savory like thyme and is…
During the summer we grow basil and make pesto. When basil’s not in season, we have plenty of chickweed growing around our raised beds in winter and spring. So, I make this Chickweed Hemp Heart Pesto. We really enjoy it. It’s lighter in color and flavor than the basil pesto. About Chickweed Chickweed grows low…
Most of the time when people weed their gardens, they throw away the things they consider “weeds,” but many common weeds are actually edible and good for you! For example, the “weeds” in this video make a delicious sweet tea alternative that is healthier for you and good for allergies. In the video below, you’ll…
The edible plant of the day in my Eat Your Yard video series is violets. We have wild violets growing in various places on our property including our flower bed, in a pot, and in random places across our property. We use the violet’s heart-shaped green leaves in our salads as well as the purple…
The edible plant of the day in my Eat Your Yard video series is Creeping Charlie. Creeping Charlie grows like crazy in our yard and is an intense ground cover. It can be pretty, but it’s also invasive. We make the best of it by eating Creeping Charlie in salads or using it in teas….
The edible plant of the day in my Eat Your Yard video series is Evening Primrose. We have a bunch of this growing in our raised bed and all over our back yard. In the winter, we used the green leaves from it as a leaf-lettuce in our salads. It’s a lighter, refreshing leaf that…
I have started a new Eat Your Yard series of videos where I’m documenting the edible plants that grow wild in our yard and how we use them. Today’s edible plant is Virginia Pepperweed. Important Note: Learn to identify and eat what’s growing around you. Remember, don’t eat anything from your yard if you have…
Enjoy healthy, nutritious Chicken of the Woods in stir-fry teriyaki. Here’s my Teriyaki Chicken of the Woods recipe. Our old oak tree we call “The Old Woman of the Woods” has some Chicken of the Woods mushroom growing at her base this season. Unfortunately, this means she’s probably dying, rotting inside, and has the potential…
Are you concerned about the future? Do you wonder if you’re prepared enough? Do you worry about details? This miracle that happened to me today will give you comfort and hope for the future.
We love to take big salad bowls and walk around our yard and garden, building our salads like we’re at a salad bar. We gather a combination of cultivar plants and native plants and flowers to build colorful, delicious and nutritious salads. I showed my husband my salad today, and he said, “It’s like salad art.”
