Sweet Violet (Viola odorata), is a shade-tolerant, ground-covering edible plant with a long list of nutritive and medicinal uses.
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The Dominant Healthcare Approach vs Marginalized Alternatives
In our culture, control and separation are given more importance than compassion and relationship.
To illustrate what I mean, here’s a comparison between the dominant approach to healthcare and the marginalized, “alternative” approaches.
Supermarket Food is Like a Tiger in a Zoo
Industrialized food is a commodity, a hollow copy of what it was before it was disconnected from the web of life that gifts it to us – just as a tiger in a zoo is a hollow copy of the real, wild thing.
Easy, Natural Ways to Increase the Available Minerals in Your Diet
Assuming you’re eating the healthiest plant foods, grown in the healthiest soil, that you can find or afford, what else can you do to increase your mineral intake without using pills?
What’s Happened to Your Mineral Intake?
Minerals are essential to life, but they’ve become dramatically less available to us in the food we eat. This article explores why.
Weeds: Real Nutrition for Free
Wild edibles (aka weeds) provide better nutrition than supermarkets ever can, for free.
Okinawa Spinach
Okinawa spinach (Gynura crepioides) is an edible, nutritious, prolific, and low maintenance ground covering plant. It looks good enough to landscape with. And the more you eat it, the better it looks.
Stinging Nettle: Nourishment for You and Your Garden
Stinging nettle (Urtica dioica) has a long history of use for food, medicine, cordage, and dye. Here are some ideas for making use of the free food and fertilizer that this under-appreciated weed has to offer.
Homemade Ginger Sauerkraut
About how the ginger growing in our garden has inspired successful homemade sauerkraut in our kitchen, which in turn has inspired better maintenance of the ginger plants in the garden. Sauerkraut recipe included.
How to Harvest and Use Queensland Arrowroot
Queensland arrowroot (Cana edulis) provides food for us, food for chickens, pigs, cattle and goats, mulch and/or compost material, and shelter for other plants. It’s super easy to grow and to harvest and it self-propagates to a certain extent but is not weedy or invasive. And I think it looks beautiful. What more could a polyculture food grower ask?