8 Alaskan plants you’ll want to use as a natural insect repellent

Wormwood
August 28, 2018 0 Comments 12 tags

Natural Insect Repellent During the beginning of the summer, the mosquitos are out in abundance. It’s always a good idea to have insect repellent with you, but sometimes you forget.

Six Fascinating Plants To Try as a Coffee Substitute

July 31, 2018 0 Comments 10 tags

Coffee Substitutes Hey there! Are you trying to quit coffee, but love the taste? (I’m not one who is fond of coffee. I use it as a tool to help

Alaska Focused Books and Other Resources

Scientific Names
July 24, 2018 0 Comments 5 tags

Alaska Focused Books and Resources This is a list of books, blogs, and facebook groups I recommend to get more information. Hopefully you’ll find them as useful as I do.

Introducing the deciduous trees of Alaska…part 2

Deciduous trees Aspen
July 17, 2018 0 Comments 4 tags

More deciduous trees… Yay, you’re back! Last week, I went over three of the common deciduous trees in Alaska. This week, I have two more for you: Aspen and Birch.

An introduction to the deciduous trees of Alaska

July 10, 2018 2 Comments 6 tags

Deciduous Trees of Alaska Hi there! You want more trees that grow in Alaska? Well, I got more trees that grow in Alaska. Today we will focus on trees with

An introduction to the pine trees of Alaska: Part 2

Pine tree of Alaska
July 4, 2018 0 Comments 7 tags

Pine Trees: Part 2 Hey there! Welcome to the second part of pine trees of Alaska. Before we get to the actual trees, I want to address something. There was

An introduction to the pine trees of Alaska: Part 1

Spruce, a type of pine
June 26, 2018 2 Comments 5 tags

Alaskan Pine Trees I have been asked several times for more information on trees. There are a lot of trees in Alaska, but the variety may not be as much

Why you need to know the scientific names of plants

Scientific Names
June 12, 2018 2 Comments 2 tags

Scientific Names of Plants Someone in one of my classes mentioned in my survey that scientific names are not needed. I would like to address that here. I could definitely

Useful plants that bite back

Collect nettle in fall
May 29, 2018 2 Comments 6 tags

Greetings, I hope that if you’ve been hiking or harvesting that you have had a wonderful time. Hopefully, you will have avoided the poisonous plants that I talked about last

Poisonous Plants of Alaska: What you need to know.

May 22, 2018 2 Comments 12 tags

Hi there! Last week in my beginners class to harvesting, I went over a list of common poisonous Alaskan plants to avoid. I even included a couple that have uses,