Tag: wildcrafting

• Eating cleavers, cranesbill, dock (young leaves sparingly), dandelion, and young blackberry leaves in May and June in Salem, Oregon.

  

  Young leaves of the dock plant harvested for smoothies and for drying.

  micheleballantyne

  June 4, 2022

  About Michele, Edible wild plants, Survival Skills

  carefree gardening, eat the weeds, eating blackberry leaves, eating cleavers, eating cranesbill, eating dandelion leaves, eating dock, eating wild food, edible plants, edible weeds, foraging, Health, survival food, Survival Skills, weed garden, weeds, wild edible plants, wild edibles, wildcrafting

• Red Dead Nettle (Lamium purpureum) compared to Heal All (Prunella vulgaris)

  Red Dead Nettle The plant on the bottom front of the pile in the photo below is from my yard and is called Red Dead Nettle, like the plant in the photo above. The first time I saw this plant in my yard I became curious.  Was I seeing the little plant that is so […]

  micheleballantyne

  April 26, 2017

  Edible wild plants, Gardening Delights, Physical Health, Survival Skills

  edible weeds, heal all, Lamium purpureum, lavender dead nettle, medicinal plants, plant medicine, Prunella vulgaris, purple archangel, purple dead nettle, red dead nettle, self heal, velikdenche, wild edible plants, wild edibles, wild medicine, wild weeds, wildcrafting

• Ended juice fast. Riding bikes with kids.

  Well, I came to the conclusion that if I take the time to blog something every day, I cut down too much on the free time I have to actually do the things I want to blog about!!  Ha ha!  Well, that’s the way it is . . . so I will be blogging occasionally, […]

  micheleballantyne

  April 10, 2013

  eat the weeds, Juice fast, survival ques, wildcrafting

• Back to Nature . . . Sleeping Outside!

  Hey everybody!  Welcome to my blog!  Again! It’s been awhile since I’ve written anything here!  But now I’m gearing up for a new adventure: SURVIVAL QUESTING THIS SUMMER!  I have a lot of work to do in preparation for this!  How many of you could walk into the woods and survive lavishly?  I know I […]

  micheleballantyne

  April 4, 2013

  Botany in a day, grandfather Stalking Wolf, survival quest, trackerschool, vision, wildcrafting