Edible weeds are wild, complex, and full of real nutrition that our bodies can recognise and understand. Here are some common edible weeds, ways of eating them, and a recipe for “weed vinegar,” to increase your mineral intake without a bottle of pills anywhere in sight.
Purslane is one of those “weeds” that volunteer themselves right on our doorsteps to provide free, nutritious food far surpassing anything we’ll ever find in a supermarket. Its eaten throughout the warm, dry parts of the world, in an endless variety of ways.
This post demonstrates how urban foraging can transform your relationship with nature, wellness, and community. By GUEST AUTHOR Chelsey Reis.
Over time, wild edibles (weeds) can help us build deep health and resilience, offering a spectrum of nutrition that no supermarket shelf or bottle of pills can ever provide — and weeds are free! Here are six that grow almost everywhere.
When was the last time you went out of your way to eat something that tastes bitter? Wild food enthusiasts and herbalists know that the bitter taste triggers a cascade of health benefits including improved digestion, reduced cravings, and increased well-being.
We all have an inner life — an inner “garden.” When we neglect it, the useful, beautiful things in it whither and diminish, and the weeds take over. This post shares ways to help your inner garden thrive by tending it in alignment with Nature’s seasons.
The best way to get more effective at growing your own food is to make it super easy to eat something directly from your garden on a daily basis. Here are 5 categories of low-maintenance food plants (or plant parts) you might have been overlooking, and strategies for using them to build more food sovereignty into your life.
Real food is more expensive than supermarket food if you measure only in dollars. But to measure something you have to isolate it from the other things it relates to, which reduces it to a limp, disconnected copy of itself. Real food that’s still connected to the rest of life provides us with some kinds of nourishment that supermarket food can’t.
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?
Minerals are essential to life, but they’ve become dramatically less available to us in the food we eat. This article explores why.