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Icy Days in NW Arkansas4 comments

maturehealth wrote 11 months ago: One driver braved the roads Monday afternoon the weather hailed ice upon NW Arkansas. Roads froze an … more →

Tags: Weather

Ice Storm 2009

maturehealth wrote 11 months ago: I’ll be taking photos all day and posting them. These are all taken in Lowell. If you are goin … more →

Tags: Lowell, Weather

Wild Arkansas: Common Mullein3 comments

maturehealth wrote 12 months ago: Verbascum thapsus or common wild mullein is growing everywhere right now. The plant can be found in … more →

Tags: mullein, verbascum, Wildcrafting

Wild Arkansas: How to Eat A Tree

maturehealth wrote 1 year ago: P. Occidentalis/American Sycamore We know about the edibility of nut and fruit trees. Most of us are … more →

Tags: edible bark

Wild Arkansas: Season End?

maturehealth wrote 1 year ago: Now that we’ve settled into late fall the foraging season is nearly over. Despite this, the Wild Ark … more →

Wild Arkansas: Wild Allium

maturehealth wrote 1 year ago: A. schoenoprasum The cultivated market garlic and onion most familiar to us range in color and size … more →

Tags: allium

Wild Arkansas: Pine Needle Tea2 comments

maturehealth wrote 1 year ago: T. occidentalis. The leaf used by Cartier. During the winter of 1536, Jacque Cartier and his men wer … more →

Tags: Nutrition, Herbs, Pinus, pine needle tea, Conifer

Wild Arkansas: Wapato Stomping2 comments

maturehealth wrote 1 year ago: As a traditional native food and a choice tuber among foragers the wapato held a special place in my … more →

Tags: edible plants, Foraging, Sagittaria latifolia

Wild Arkansas: Sassafras--the underdog

maturehealth wrote 1 year ago: The sassafras trees are just exploding in color around here. They are absolutely beautiful and I hav … more →

Tags: edible plants, Sassafras, S. albidum

Wild Arkansas: Smilax1 comment

maturehealth wrote 1 year ago: Crocus and Smilax may be turn’d to flow’rs, And the Curetes spring from bounteous show’n I pass a hu … more →

Tags: edible plants, Foraging, smilax

Wild Arkansas: The Ever Evasive Apios

maturehealth wrote 1 year ago: Photo courtesy of kgnaturephotography.com I want to say our walk was fruitful, but that wouldn’t be … more →

Tags: edible plants, Foraging, nuts, Apios americana, Groundnut

Wild Arkansas: Fast food in the backyard--The common mallow

maturehealth wrote 1 year ago: No one told us when we were young not to eat the little green cheese wheels off the mallow plants gr … more →

Tags: health, Herbs, edible plants, Foraging, herb, Malva neglecta

Wild Arkansas: Mushroom Season2 comments

maturehealth wrote 1 year ago: Mushroom hunting lately? It’s an exciting season in Arkansas and the Arkansas Mycological Soci … more →

Tags: Arkansas, Wildcrafting, edible plants, Foraging, Mushrooms, Food

Wild Arkansas: Maitake1 comment

maturehealth wrote 1 year ago: Grifola frondosa, commonly called Maitake is one of the more popular and tasty wild mushrooms found … more →

Tags: health, Herbs, Arkansas, Wildcrafting, edible plants, Foraging, natural healing, Mushrooms, maitake

Wild Arkansas: Cirsium

maturehealth wrote 1 year ago: “…The head of the plant being protected by thorny points: the last mentioned, however, puts forth in … more →

Tags: Herbs, Arkansas, edible plants, natural healing, thistle, Cirsium, (Cirsium vulgare)

Arkansas is Full of Nuts!3 comments

maturehealth wrote 1 year ago: With autumn come the nuts, and Arkansas is full of ‘em. This morning I went on a short walk an … more →

Tags: health, Nutrition, Arkansas, edible plants, Foraging, nuts, edible

Wild Arkansas: Lowell and its gifts

maturehealth wrote 1 year ago: Though foraging for edibles isn’t done as often as it once was, many Ozark families still retain kno … more →

Tags: Herbs, Arkansas, edible plants, Foraging, passionflower, Epazote, dandelion, Lowell, "Wild Edibles"

Wild Arkansas: Free health food1 comment

maturehealth wrote 1 year ago: With the rising costs of groceries and incredibly higher prices of produce in Arkansas, there is lit … more →

Tags: health, Nutrition, Arkansas, edible plants, Foraging, Food, Health & Food, Free, sorrel

Wild Arkansas: Poke Berry6 comments

maturehealth wrote 1 year ago: Pokeberry or Phytolacca americana grows in nearly any available spot of disturbed land in Arkansas. … more →

Tags: health, Herbs, Arkansas, Fruit, toxic plants, Lowell, Medicinal, pokeBerry, Poison


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