Identification, harvesting, and medicinal properties of salal, a Pacific Northwest evergreen shrub with a long history in traditional herbal medicine.
Herbal Focus: Salal, Gaultheria shallon
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The Most Nutritious Edible Flowers (And What Each One Does for Your Body)
Reap the surprisingly powerful health and beauty benefits of the vitamins, antioxidants, and beneficial compounds found in edible flowers.
The Science-Backed Herb That Stops Cravings, Balances Blood Sugar & Fights Viruses — DIY Recipes Included!
The Ancient Root That Does It All — From Blood Sugar to Immunity Known as a traditional remedy that can help you overcome cravings for sweets, licorice root also balances blood sugar, soothes the digestive tract, calms respiratory inflammation, and regulates immune...
The Humble Bean: A Simple Way to Lower Inflammation, Promote Heart Health, & Reduce Cancer Risk
Looking to lower cholesterol, cool inflammation, and boost overall health? The answer may be as simple as daily bean consumption.
Here’s What to Forage This Autumn — Wild Food Recipe Included!
With autumn just around the corner, there is no better time than now to start thinking about your wild food game plan.
There’s No Better Time Than Now to Enjoy Turkey Tail Mushroom — An Immune-Boosting, Disease-Destroying Thanksgiving Superfood!
This mushroom helps prevent picking up the latest bug, enhances gut health, improves immune function, and reduces inflammation.
Why (Almost) Everyone Should Eat Seaweed — Wild Food Recipe Included!
Dive into one of Nicole Apelian’s favorite superfoods for healthy living – if you’ve never tried seaweed, you are in for a treat!
Herbal Focus: Jerusalem Artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus)
Jerusalem artichoke is a wonderfully sweet, easy to grow autumn tuber with several significant health benefits.
Now is a fantastic time to enjoy foraging and wild foods. Recipes included!
A few basics of what to keep in mind while safely foraging, as well as some favorite wild foods and recipes.
There’s No Better Time Than Now To Go Wild For Alpine Blueberries!
All about bog/alpine blueberries – a power-packed superfood which can help protect you against cancer, aging, and cardiovascular disease.
Magical Morel Mushrooms: A Savory Wild Food for Boosting Immunity, Inhibiting Cancer, and Defeating Infections
Morel mushrooms are a wild, health-promoting superfood with many medicinal benefits and outstanding flavor.
Japanese Honeysuckle: Problematic Weed or Outstanding Herbal Remedy? You Decide.
Studies have shown Japanese Honeysuckle to exhibit immune boosting, anti-inflammatory, and anti-depressant health benefits.
Plume Thistle: A Powerful Medicinal Herb and Delicious Wild Food Rolled into One
Plume thistle may be a prickly weed found throughout the world, but it’s also a nutritious food and medicinal herb with many uses.
Keep your cool this summer with these refreshing foods and herbal remedies
Cooling herbs can help with symptoms brought on by the hot summer months, like flaring tempers, bloating, inflammation, and fatigue.
The Wild and Wonderful World of Cattails, Nature’s Plant-Based Corn Dogs
Cattails are an outstanding wild food for survival – boasting nutritious edible shoots, roots, and pollen.
The Ultimate Guide to Foraging Wild Foods — Now Available!
Nicole shares her brand-new book: The Foragers Guide to Wild Foods, Edible Plants, Lichens, Mushrooms, and Seaweeds.
Feasting on Foraged Fare: Lamb’s Quarter!
Lamb’s Quarter is a nutritional powerhouse, an effective poultice, and a hearty annual that can be found growing wild on every continent.
Organic Gardening 101: 3 Methods for Cultivating a Bountiful Harvest
Tips to help you cultivate a successful organic garden and put your own fresh and healthy produce on the table.
Cooking on the Wild Side: Ideas & Inspiration for Foraged Fare Year-Round
Are you ready to get excited about wild foods and foraging? Learn more about the magic that comes with foraging your next meal.
Discover the Joy of Wild foods, Foraging, and DIY Spore Prints
Nicole shares her enthusiasm for foraging in the wilderness for food, including plants you may be able to locate close to home.