Coconut is highly nutritious and rich in fiber, vitamins, and minerals. It is classified as a “functional food” because it provides many health benefits beyond its nutritional content. Coconut oil is of special interest because it possesses healing properties far beyond that of any other dietary oil and is extensively used in traditional medicine among […]
Eat your Apricot Seeds
So I was sitting here doing a little research on healthy diets like vegetarianism, cave man diets, the Eden diet, and so forth. This inquiry led me to a tribe of people in Northern Pakistan call the Hunza people who never get cancer. When the tribe was discovered their average age at death was 160; […]
Wild Berries Of Idaho (Part two)
In a continuation of an earlier article my mother has been kind enough to provide a part two. I hope you enjoy. My mother tapered off the full number of huckleberry recipes, but if you want them put a note in the bottom and I’ll get her in contact with you. We have an abundance […]
Pine Nuts
We didn’t get these very often growing up because we didn’t know how to harvest them, and I think my parents were unfamiliar with these nuts. I’ve since developed quite a taste for them that drew my curiosity into what trees they come from and how to harvest them and how are they harvested. There […]
Potatoes
I was reflecting on my youth and time in Bear Lake Idaho the other day and looked back on the Danish tradition of eating potatoes. Potatoes to a Dane are like rice to a Pilipino; The Danes can’t live without them. Their preference is boiled with a rich dark brown gravy. Believe it or not, […]
Aspen as Aspirin?
My youngest sister tells me that once while camping or playing in the woods with the other kids she had a headache, and I apparently made her chew on aspen leaves as a remedy. I don’t remember this but it sounds like me; and it sounds even more like something I would have heard from […]
Watercress
In my youth I remember taking of my shoes and socks and rolling up my pants so I could walk out into the icy spring water up a Rocky Mountain canyon just to pick this leafy green little vegetable. It was so abundant that a few handfuls could fill garbage bags in seconds. I don’t […]
Wild Berries Of Idaho (Part One)
These are all berries i remember picking in my youth around Bear Lake Idaho and can be found in most of the northwest Rockies. I’d like to thank my mother for this great info, part one of three, enjoy. Jon Chokecherry (Prunus virginiana, P. melanocarpa, P. demissa) -Also known as choke berry. […]
Pine Syrup
My father is a man who loves foraging and learning what is and is not edible. He told me about this, and it’s been a big hit with the grandchildren. The idea comes from turning your Christmas tree into pine syrup. While some sites or magazine article say this sweet syrup can be made from […]
Cattails
One of the most useful and plentiful plants for foraging or survival situations are cattails. As a food plant, cattails are an outstanding emergency food source and offer a variety of food products according to the season. Nothing produces more starch per acre under cultivation than cattails, even outperforming potatoes, with more than 6,000 pounds […]