Month: April 2020

Native harvests: Orange Day Lilly, Hemerocallis fulva

Post author By Awaneechee
Post date April 13, 2020
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Although the day Lilly is not native to North America it is naturalized and grows wild almost anywhere. It’s a great source of food, the tubers, fresh spring greens and the blossoms are all edible. My most recent meal used tubers and spring greens, so that’s what I’ll be focusing on. True lillies are toxic. […]

Tags Herbalism, Wild Foods

Homesteading

R & R On the Homestead

Post author By Awaneechee
Post date April 6, 2020
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To us, part of being a homesteader is to always Repurpose and Reuse when we can. It’s a wonderful way to reduce waste on the homestead but also saves quite a bit of money. One of our favorite recyclables are pallets. Pallets have an almost limitless R&R potential, and they’re relatively easy to get a […]