Herbs and Wildcrafting - Getting to Know Our Plant Allies (original) (raw)
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.
11 Best Medicinal Herbs to Grow (Herb Garden & Wildcrafted)
25 Immune Boosting Herbs and Spices
Bay Leaf – Fresh or Dry, It’s a Plant with Many Uses
Borage – Growing Tips and Uses
Cold and Cough Care Syrup and Tea Recipes
Ginger Root Uses & Health Benefits
Growing Chamomile – Easy Care Tips and Uses
Growing Passionflower for Flowers, Fruit, & Herbal Remedies
Grow Stevia and Make Homemade Stevia Extract
Fennel Seed – Natural Digestive Aid & More
Herbal Gelatin – Immune Boosting Herbs in Finger Gelatin
Herbs for Pollinators (and You!)
How to Grow, Harvest & Use Valerian Root
How to Infuse Herbs in Oil, Water, Vinegar, Alcohol or Honey
Milk Thistle – The Gentle Liver Tonic Everyone Should Know
Passionflower Benefits and Use Tips
Sage Benefits for Home, Health and Personal Care
Soothing Ginger Honey – Natural Remedy for Sore Throats and Coughs
Using Mint Leaves for Food, Medicine, & More
White Willow Bark – Harvesting and Use
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 Foraging & wildcrafting Reference Books
Chickweed – Herbal Remedy for Itchy and Inflamed Skin
Thistle – Edible from Bud to Root
Red Clover – Nitrogen Fixer and Gentle Tonic
Chicory – The Coffee Root Plant
Queen Anne’s Lace – Butterfly Host Plant and Blueberry Protector
Common Ragweed – Bane of Allergy Sufferers
Butter and Eggs – Sweet Scented Bumblebee Magnet
Goldenrod – Growing, Foraging, Uses, & Control
Marvelous Milkweed – Answers to 21 Common Questions About this Useful Plant
Evening Primrose, Oenothera biennis
Broadleaf Plantain – The “Weed” You Won’t Want to Be Without
Stinging Nettle – One of Most Useful Wild Plants
Benefits of Dandelion Plus How to Use Greens, Seeds, Roots & Flowers
Catnip – Uses for People and Cats
Winter Cress – Barbarea vulgaris
Lamb’s Quarters – Chenopodium album
Wild Geranium – Geranium maculatum
Common Blue Violet – Viola sororia sororia
Prickly Wild Lettuce – Lactuca serriola
Creeping Charlie – Glechoma hederacea
Sulphur Cinquefoil – Potentilla recta
Birdsfoot trefoil – Lotus corniculatus
Pineapple Weed – Matricaria discoidea
Common Burdock – Arctium minus
Common Mallow – Malva neglecta
Jewelweed – Impatiens capensis
Yarrow – The “Plant Doctor” for your Yard and Garden
Joe Pye Weed – Eupatorium maculatum
Wild Cucumber – Echinocystis lobata
Velvetleaf – Abutilon theophrasti
Comfrey – Symphytum officinale
Dame’s Rocket – Hesperis matronalis
Wild Strawberry – Fragaria virginiana
Marsh Marigold – Caltha palustris
Canada Mayflower – Maianthemum canadense
Field Pennycress – Thlaspi arvense
Blue-eyed Grass – Sisyrinchium montanum
White Sweet Clover – 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
Wild Elderberry – What does an Elderberry Plant Look Like?
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!
