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" in the game! The site also offers email newsletters with free recipes, as well as some ...

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 uses. Part of learning to be self-sufficient means learning about and using wild edibles. ...

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 and throw the plants, stalks and all, into a salad I’m putting together or into a stew. They ...