Filed under: General
So this summer when the whole garden was wilting and dying, I made a list of edible and medicinal plants we have on our land and nearby. Here it is.
Edible and Medicinal Plants on our Land:
Lamb’s Quarters
Chickweed
Ground Ivy (tea)
Blackberries (tea from leaves. also)
Wild Ginger
Jack-in-the-pulpit
Black walnut
Acorns
Persimmon – not bearing yet
Goldenrod (tea)
Daylily
Muscadines
Henbit (tea)
Ferns (fiddleheads in spring)
Pokeweed
Sugar maple (sap)
Mulberry
Strawberry
Wild mint
Greenbrier (shoots)
Black cohosh (medicinal)
Violets
Dandelions
Plantain
Sorrel
Yucca (fruits)
Pippesewa
Edible Plants Nearby::
Pippesewa
Blueberry
Blackberry
Sumac
Hickory
Acorns
Crabapple
Persimmon
Bearberry
Kudzu
Strawberry
Willow
Elderberry
Mint
I like to review this list every so often, to remind myself of the generousity of the universe. We don’t exist just by our own efforts.
