Four Easy Steps to Washing Your Herbs

Washing Herbs in cold water
January 6, 2022 0 Comments 3 tags
Previously we have gone over drying herbs and plants. You can also freeze them. But someone asked me, what do ...

How to conservatively tap birch trees for sap

March 5, 2019 2 Comments 5 tags
Ah! It’s March already! That means spring is JUST around the corner, which means tapping birch trees is just around ...

Invasive plants you’ll want to watch out for.

Invasive species
January 25, 2019 0 Comments 2 tags
We all know that some weeds, like dandelions, are useful. However, there are some that weeds that are invasive, even ...

What’s in a name: getting into the weeds of taxonomy

January 8, 2019 0 Comments 2 tags
A while back, I wrote a post on why knowing the scientific name is important. If you’re discussing a plant ...

25 Herbs and Plants You Can Collect During Winter

collect during winter
December 18, 2018 0 Comments 0 tags
There was an interesting discussion on an Alaskan Harvesters page this week: Food sources during the winter. Honestly, there aren’t ...

A quick guide to using fresh and dried herbs

December 11, 2018 2 Comments 3 tags
During the winter, you’ll probably be using dried herbs in your preparation (or frozen if you’ve gone that route of ...

23 Alaskan Plants you’ll want to dye your fabric with

December 4, 2018 0 Comments 11 tags
Wow, that was quite the weekend with the earthquake! I hope that you are safe and there is minimal damage ...

Feast on these 10 edible berries from Alaska

October 2, 2018 0 Comments 9 tags
Okay, this is a two parter because there are just SO. MANY. EDIBLE BERRIES! Me, personally I just eat most ...

How to take care of a stinging nettle rash

Collect nettle in fall
September 25, 2018 0 Comments 9 tags
Last time, I went over how to take care of a cow parsnip burn. Today, we are going to go ...

How to Take Care of a Cow Parsnip Burn.

September 4, 2018 2 Comments 7 tags
Hey there! Hopefully with all of this beautiful weather you’ve been able to get out hiking and enjoy it. Something ...