Where do young ground hogs gather?
I had the time of my life again today.
I got up early -always a good start to something I've been looking forward to, and followed map quest directions -made it even more like a entertainment, through beautiful country that I'd never seen before. There were lots of farms and everything looked lush and prosperous in spite of the dry spell we've been having. Maybe it was the thickened pre-percipitation air that gave everything a little topical moisturizing.
There were lots of new roads, many with peculiar names -my favorite was Ground Hog College Rd.
The occasion for enthusiasm was a medicinal herb workshop at a CSA near Deleware. The information was so exciting, and the people were more, previously unknown members of 'my group'. We each made an Herbarium which is a notebook with specimens of plants and their various parts taped to the pages rounded out by notes on their latin names, families, species, and uses, be that food, medicine, or poisin. These were all common wild plants that are probably mostly considered weeds. Many have been the basis of healing since the begining of time. As a matter of fact Alopathic medecine as we know it is only about a hundred years old. These plants were our first medecines. Some are even still used by pharmaceutical companies but many have been synthisized or in other ways altered form their original purity.
For lunch, we gathered lambs quarters and purslane, to be the basis of a salad. Flowers of chicory, nasturtium, and dandelion were added for color as well as nourishment. Peppermint leaves and queen ann's lace seeds were an optional condiments, along with soaked (lightly sprouted) almonds and sunflower seeds. It was quite delicious and thrilling to gather and prepare while sharing information from each other's experience.
On the way home, while in the foraging mood I responded with a screech of the brakes and a quickly applied turn signal, to the Highland Orchards sign, a place where you can pick your own fruit. I probably only saved 5 cents a pound over buying what was alresdy in their store but the time of my life continued as I plucked apples, peaches,and pears from the perfectly sized trees. They are not organic but they are definately fresh and local -gotta keep the orchard in business if they are ever to become organic. And besides IF we eat a fairly clean diet our liver can to filter out the toxins. Its all a mattere of volume and frequency.
Right now, mostly worn out, I am tempted to wish I had something fun to do. I do! the sewing room organizing! And tomorrow another movie -this one has more promise, it is about the view the angels had of Berlin during the war. It is an old one I've never heard of before. Oh and I forgot there is more work to do too -plastering and potting -fun!
I got up early -always a good start to something I've been looking forward to, and followed map quest directions -made it even more like a entertainment, through beautiful country that I'd never seen before. There were lots of farms and everything looked lush and prosperous in spite of the dry spell we've been having. Maybe it was the thickened pre-percipitation air that gave everything a little topical moisturizing.
There were lots of new roads, many with peculiar names -my favorite was Ground Hog College Rd.
The occasion for enthusiasm was a medicinal herb workshop at a CSA near Deleware. The information was so exciting, and the people were more, previously unknown members of 'my group'. We each made an Herbarium which is a notebook with specimens of plants and their various parts taped to the pages rounded out by notes on their latin names, families, species, and uses, be that food, medicine, or poisin. These were all common wild plants that are probably mostly considered weeds. Many have been the basis of healing since the begining of time. As a matter of fact Alopathic medecine as we know it is only about a hundred years old. These plants were our first medecines. Some are even still used by pharmaceutical companies but many have been synthisized or in other ways altered form their original purity.
For lunch, we gathered lambs quarters and purslane, to be the basis of a salad. Flowers of chicory, nasturtium, and dandelion were added for color as well as nourishment. Peppermint leaves and queen ann's lace seeds were an optional condiments, along with soaked (lightly sprouted) almonds and sunflower seeds. It was quite delicious and thrilling to gather and prepare while sharing information from each other's experience.
On the way home, while in the foraging mood I responded with a screech of the brakes and a quickly applied turn signal, to the Highland Orchards sign, a place where you can pick your own fruit. I probably only saved 5 cents a pound over buying what was alresdy in their store but the time of my life continued as I plucked apples, peaches,and pears from the perfectly sized trees. They are not organic but they are definately fresh and local -gotta keep the orchard in business if they are ever to become organic. And besides IF we eat a fairly clean diet our liver can to filter out the toxins. Its all a mattere of volume and frequency.
Right now, mostly worn out, I am tempted to wish I had something fun to do. I do! the sewing room organizing! And tomorrow another movie -this one has more promise, it is about the view the angels had of Berlin during the war. It is an old one I've never heard of before. Oh and I forgot there is more work to do too -plastering and potting -fun!
posted by cara graver at 1:37 PM
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another wonderful day, and an explanation of why you missed lemon-ginger scones made with whole wheat flour! Hope this movie is better than last week's...
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