Herbs and Wildcrafting – Getting to Know Our Plant Allies
We'll explore how to use cultivated herbs and learn wildcrafting with the Weekly Weeder Series to help you identify and use wild plants.
There are a TON of ways to use plants for food, medicine, cleaning, crafts, and more. We help you learn how, easily and safely, with full color photos throughout the site.
Herbs
Bay Leaf – Fresh or Dry, It’s a Plant with Many Uses
Sage Benefits for Home, Health and Personal Care
Grow Stevia and Make Homemade Stevia Extract
Milk Thistle – The Gentle Liver Tonic Everyone Should Know
How to Infuse Herbs in Oil, Water, Vinegar, Alcohol or Honey
How to Make Homemade Extracts- Vanilla, Lemon and Almond
Herbal Antibiotics – the Top 15 Herbal Antibiotics
The Best Herbs and Spices for Colds and Flus
Cold and Cough Care Syrup and Tea Recipes
11 Best Medicinal Herbs to Grow (Herb Garden & Wildcrafted)
Cooking with Herbs
Cooking with Herbs – What to Use When
Wildcrafting – Using Your Weeds
Although not standard “garden” elements, my weeds are also harvested for culinary and medicinal use. The “Weekly Weeder” series provides identification and usage information for many common weeds, plus there are articles on some of my favorite herbal recipes and remedies that are a must for every homesteader.
5 Reasons Why I Want Weeds in My Garden
What if I told you weeds and bacteria could save your life?
Online Botany & Wildcrafting Course at The Herbal Academy
“Real” Healing Potions – Introducing the boys to wildcrafting. medicinal uses of yarrow and plantain
Eating Bugs – Free Food from Your Backyard – Another form of Wildcrafting
Cooking with Weeds – Goosefoot Pie and Sauteed Milkweed Pods
The Pocket Guide to Wild Mushrooms Review
The Weekly Weeder Series
Recommended Wildcrafting Reference Books – Weekly Weeder #1
Chickweed – Herbal Remedy for Itchy and Inflamed Skin – Weekly Weeder #2
Thistle – Edible from Bud to Root – Weekly Weeder #3
Red Clover – Nitrogen Fixer and Gentle Tonic – Weekly Weeder #4
Chicory – The Coffee Root Plant – Weekly Weeder #5
Queen Anne’s Lace – Butterfly Host Plant and Blueberry Protector – Weekly Weeder #6
Common Ragweed – Bane of Allergy Sufferers – Weekly Weeder #7
Butter and Eggs – Sweet Scented Bumblebee Magnet – Weekly Weeder #8
Goldenrod – Growing, Foraging, Uses, & Control
Marvelous Milkweed – Answers to 21 Common Questions About this Useful Plant – Weekly Weeder #10
Evening Primrose, Oenothera biennis – Weekly Weeder #11
New England Aster – Weekly Weeder #12
Common Mullein – Weekly Weeder #13
Broadleaf Plantain – The “Weed” You Won’t Want to Be Without – Weekly Weeder #14
Shepherd’s Purse – Weekly Weeder #15
Stinging Nettle – One of Most Useful Wild Plants – Weekly Weeder #16
Benefits of Dandelion Plus How to Use Greens, Seeds, Roots & Flowers -Weekly Weeder #17
Ox-eye Daisy – Weekly Weeder #18
Catnip – Uses for People and Cats – Weekly Weeder #19
Winter Cress – Weekly Weeder #20 – Barbarea vulgaris
Lamb's Quarters – Weekly Weeder #21 – Chenopodium album
Wild Geranium – Weekly Weeder #22 – Geranium maculatum
Common Blue Violet – Weekly Weeder #23 – Viola sororia sororia
Prickly Wild Lettuce – Weekly Weeder #24 – Lactuca serriola
Creeping Charlie – Weekly Weeder #25 – Glechoma hederacea
Sulphur Cinquefoil – Weekly Weeder #26 – Potentilla recta
Birdsfoot trefoil – Weekly Weeder #27 – Lotus corniculatus
Purslane – Weekly Weeder #28 – Portulaca oleracea
Pineapple Weed – Weekly Weeder #29 – Matricaria discoidea
Common Burdock – Weekly Weeder #30 – Arctium minus
Common Mallow – Weekly Weeder #31 – Malva neglecta
Curly Dock – Weekly Weeder #32 – Rumex crispus
Jewelweed – Weekly Weeder #33 – Impatiens capensis
Yarrow – The “Plant Doctor” for your Yard and Garden – Weekly Weeder #34
Joe Pye Weed – Weekly Weeder #35 – Eupatorium maculatum
Heath Aster – Weekly Weeder #36 – Aster ericoides
Wild Cucumber – Weekly Weeder #37 – Echinocystis lobata
Velvetleaf – Weekly Weeder #38 – Abutilon theophrasti
Comfrey – Weekly Weeder #40 – Symphytum officinale
Quackgrass – Weekly Weeder #41 – Elymus repens
Dame’s Rocket – Weekly Weeder #42 – Hesperis matronalis
Tansy – Weekly Weeder #43 – Tanacetum vulgare
Wild Strawberry – Weekly Weeder #44 – Fragaria virginiana
Marsh Marigold – Weekly Weeder #45 – Caltha palustris
Canada Mayflower – Weekly Weeder #46 – Maianthemum canadense
Field Pennycress – Weekly Weeder #47 – Thlaspi arvense
Blue-eyed Grass – Weekly Weeder #48 – Sisyrinchium montanum
White Sweet Clover – Weekly Weeder #49 – Melilotus alba
Plantain
Grandma Called it Medicine Leaf – Plantain Weed Remedies
How to Make Salve with Infused Oils
Dandelions
Harvesting and Using Dandelion Roots
Dandelion Jelly – An Easy, Low Sugar Flower Jelly Recipe
How to Make Dandelion Wine (And the Mistake You Don't Want to Make
Elderberries
How to Make Elderberry Syrup from Fresh or Dried Berries
Not on my site, but a great read – “Weeds: Guardians of the Soil”
I just rediscovered the book “Weeds- Guardians of the Soil” thanks to Phil Nauta, The Smiling Gardener. I had read a page of this book years ago, and wanted to read the rest of it ever since. Thanks, Phil!
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