The Rise of Urban Foraging – The Invisible Harvest
Food Forest in the Laurentian Mountains: Wild Orchard Gardens
The Backyard Harvest: Foraging for Wild, Edible Greens
Tips For Safely Foraging Wild Foods
Wild Strawberries: Medicinal Weed and Superfood
Humble in appearance, many consider the wild strawberry to be nothing but a weed. After all, wild strawberries spread quickly via runners and seeds and easily take over lawns and flower beds. The plant prefers moist, fertile, well-drained soil that is slightly acidic. However, even if the conditions aren’t optimal, these berries happily grow and […]
Take A Walk On The Wild Side With Horticultural Disobedience
Are you feeling a little rebellious? We all want to take a walk on the wild side now and then! A Quebec man is making headlines for practicing horticultural disobedience, a movement he hopes will catch on in neighborhoods across North America. Horticultural Disobedience? For gardeners and homeowners feeling particularly naughty, horticultural disobedience is the […]
Foraging For Wild Medicinal Mushrooms
Mycophobia is defined as a fear of mushrooms. For many people, the idea of harvesting wild mushrooms can create feelings of anxiety. With so much unknown about the wild fungus, it’s easy to assume that all mushrooms are poisonous and dangerous, but that is certainly not the case. Over the last several years, enthusiastic mycologists […]
The Medicinal Benefits Of Wild Raspberries
A few scratches on our hands and forearms are worth it when enjoying sweet and juicy wild raspberries. Incredibly fragrant and tasty, these plants produce abundant harvests of bright red berries from about mid-summer to the first frost. Wild raspberry, also known as Rubus idaeus, grows in many different soil conditions and can be found […]
Wild Parsnip Burns Little Boy In Ottawa, Canada
What happens when you come into contact with wild parsnip? Unfortunately, a 4-year-old boy in Ottawa, Canada, recently found out. George Young was walking to a splash pad with his summer camp group this month when he picked the plant in a local park, says CTV News. Shortly after, his hand broke out in big, […]
Latest Buzz on Bees
Loss Surprises After tallying the annual bee colony losses from Winter 2014-2015, it became clear that US beekeepers fared far better than the previous year with only 1 in 5 hives being wiped out, instead of the 1 in 3 experienced the previous year. But it emerged that far more bees died over the summer […]