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neb
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# Posted: 9 Apr 2018 10:29am
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Just wondering if anyone looks for or uses Medical Roots or part of wild plants for there use or for the adventure of finding them?
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Just
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# Posted: 9 Apr 2018 06:50pm
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Yes neb great to hear from you. I am a fungi hunter . My favorite medicinal one is (turkey tail )bracket fungi great for strengthening the immune system but it’s morals that gets my mouth watering .
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Bushwhacked
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# Posted: 10 Apr 2018 11:37pm
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Yay for turkey tail!
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creeky
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# Posted: 12 Apr 2018 04:07pm
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I love wild harvest. Morels, I get grey and gold on my property.
I'm planning on doing more stinging nettle harvest this year. Has lots of benefits. Not least of all helping with hair loss.
Wild plantain is my go to. Really good for you. Much like spinach except you don't have to plant and tend it.
Good luck. I learn about a new plant or two every season. Makes for interesting conversations at farmer's markets.
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rockies
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# Posted: 12 Apr 2018 07:15pm
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https://www.amazon.ca/WILD-MEDICINAL-PLANTS-Anny-Schneider/dp/0811729877
https://www.amazon.ca/Browns-Guide-Edible-Medicinal-Plants/dp/0425100634
https://chestnutherbs.com/the-best-regional-books-for-plant-identification-and-foragi ng-wild-foods-and-herbs/
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Eddy G
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# Posted: 13 Apr 2018 09:09am
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My wife forages the forests around our cabin.
She has a good supply of Chaga that she pulls from the trees and make in to tea.. Mushrooms of course...We've thought about the maple syrup and tapping the trees but its so easy to come by in our area we haven't done it yet.... I'm happy it keeps her happy and she enjoys doing it. I'm also grateful for fruits of her labor. I know she has found and investigated other herbs and foods as well.
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Cowracer
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# Posted: 13 Apr 2018 09:16am
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I personally disdain mushrooms. Never have liked them. We went on a UTV ride last year with a couple people and "Friends of friends" kind of thing, and the one guy would stop literally every minute or two and go digging up mushrooms. (Morels, i think?)
He was almost in rapture over all the mushrooms he was finding, but the rest of us were like "Cmon dude! We hauled our units 65 mile to go ride, not to watch you dig mushrooms". I wanted to leave him to his own, but apparnetly I'm the only a-hole in the group and we spent the rest of the day stopping all the time for this guy.
He did get a Polaris Ranger bed full of mushrooms, so good for him I guess.
Tim
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rockies
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# Posted: 13 Apr 2018 08:57pm
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https://www.outdoorlife.com/photos/gallery/survival/2009/06/killer-mushrooms#page-8
https://www.amazon.ca/American-Common-Poisonous-Plants-Mushrooms/dp/0881929298
https://iwkpoisoncentre.ca/Documents/PDF/plantguide.pdf
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Just
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# Posted: 13 Apr 2018 10:01pm
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You know the taste of wild fungi is a real treat , the ability to share a medisinal plants rare genetics with a ill friend dramatic .the fun of shairing a lifetime of hunting the elusive with a friend like neb is rewarding . But I do think the very best part is the Walk in the wild , try and get out there .
Just
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neb
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# Posted: 15 Apr 2018 10:45am
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Hi Just and everyone that posted. I haven't done much of it yet but will be doing more research and looking this spring. I do harvest many berries that I use through out the year. I'm still using Black Current/Black Gooseberry I harvested last fall.
I have milk weed along the creek I have harvested seed from late fall. The seed I have shared with many people around the US for their Monarch Butterfly gardens. The milk weed is a native plant not a noxious plant and us the main food for the Monarch.
I will try to follow up on the topic with some native medical plants and roots as time goes on.
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creeky
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# Posted: 15 Apr 2018 04:55pm
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Milkweed pods are delicious raw or cooked when they're real small. Like an 1"1/2. I can't wait.
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Gary O
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# Posted: 15 Apr 2018 09:14pm
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We have plenty of mullein here
Lotsa benefits
tried it in tea form
not terrible
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rockies
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# Posted: 17 Apr 2018 09:41pm
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There was thread on here a couple of years ago about Milkweed. You have to be sure which species you're using.
http://homeguides.sfgate.com/poisonous-milkweed-humans-74425.html
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woodspirit
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# Posted: 21 Jan 2019 12:09am
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i raise goldenseal in my woods. also grow Echinacea (coneflower) bee balm (monarda) and Valerian. Wild strawberry leaves are great for diarrhea. Chaga if you can find it. Ginger tea with honey yum also take whole cloves and honey tea. Sometimes the best medicines are just simple food and drinks.
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toyota_mdt_tech
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# Posted: 21 Jan 2019 08:42am - Edited by: toyota_mdt_tech
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Quoting: creeky I'm planning on doing more stinging nettle harvest this year.
Creeky, or others in here, if you are ever stung by those nettles, leaves an itchy rash and blisters, an instant cure is the sword fern and its always found in the same area growing. I bet if you have stinging nettles, you have sword fern.
Grab a sword fern stem, strip the leaves off leaving just the stalk/stem, now run the stalk onto the sting area. Itch and rash gone in a minute or two.
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creeky
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# Posted: 21 Jan 2019 01:03pm
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thx for the tip. we have so much stinging nettle we get stung weeding. I also have a line of ferns right under the tree line. now to wait for warmer weather and test.
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