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• Learning about Herbs is fun!

  I've found a great website called Learning Herbs . They have a fun board game called Wildcraft, which is a great way for the family to learn which herbs you would apply to help which ailments. The kids really cracked up when they got "diarrhea" Read More... Posted Thursday, April 24, 2008 8:13 AM by jer | 0 Comments Filed under: Homeschool, Gardening, Food

• A Healing Herb and Salad Green, right in our own back yards

  My friend pointed out to me, growing as a weed in my backyard, the plant called Common Plantain. I had never noticed it before. But it turns out that it is edible (the young leaves in salads or in soups and casseroles), and that it has many various medicinal Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 24, 2007 10:26 AM by jer | 0 Comments Filed under: Gardening, Food

• Yummy Pigweed Recipes

  I posted before about eating our wild spinach weeds (commonly called Prostrate Pigweed). We’ve gotten so much rain lately I’ve been weeding and eating the pigweed almost every evening for supper, just to keep up with them! Most of the time I wash, chop Read More... Posted Monday, July 17, 2006 10:22 PM by jer | 0 Comments Filed under: Gardening, Food