by Julia | Aug 29, 2015 | Edible Weeds & Flowers, General, Healing Plants, Recipes, Sustainable Living
Bittercress Cardamine hirsuta I love this little compact, rosette shaped annual with lobed leaves, small white flowers and upright seed pods that explode, flinging the seeds far and wide when ripe and you touch them, hence one of its names ‘shot weed or ‘flick weed’....
by Julia | Jun 13, 2015 | Edible Weeds & Flowers, General, Growing Food, Healing Plants, Natural Health, Recipes, Sustainable Living
Young plants of Herb Robert (Geranium robertianum) are flourishing all over our garden and bush edge as I write in May. A few mature plants are still flowering. This is an old medicinal plant common in Europe. The name Geranium is Greek for ‘cranesbill’ which...
by Julia | Feb 2, 2015 | Edible Weeds & Flowers, Growing Food, Healing Plants, Natural Health, Sustainable Living
Hello Everyone, I had this idea to interview someone who has taken my Edible Weed course and ask how their journey has been since the course. I invited my friend Sharon Watt to answer the following questions and found out how her views of weeds have changed, what...
by Julia | Jan 25, 2015 | Edible Weeds & Flowers, General, Healing Plants, Natural Health, Raw Food, Recipes
Self Heal – Prunella vulgaris This is a gorgeous little plant flowering profusely now in January, in full sun or shade. I love it and want to share more about it along with a delicious pesto recipe I whipped up. Prunella comes from either the Latin meaning...
by Julia | Dec 19, 2014 | Edible Weeds & Flowers, General, Natural Health, Raw Food, Recipes
Amaranthus viridis – Green Amaranth or Amaranthus lividus -Purple Amaranth cultivated in Mexico since 4000BC – making it the oldest known food crop summer growing annuals found in disturbed, impoverished places the flowers are densely clustered small and...
by Julia | Nov 4, 2014 | Edible Weeds & Flowers, Healing Plants
Speedwell – Veronica persica
 Description: The Latin name of this pretty little blue flowered plant comes from a story of a woman, later canonized as St. Veronica who is said to have wiped the blood from the face of Jesus on his journey to Calvery. “Ever...
