Mugwort flowers amplify and balance the sweet flavors of winter squash, carrots, parsnips, and onion. If you roast fall fruit as a side dish for a savory entrée,…
Read more Mugwort Flowers: An Aromatic Herb to Add to Winter Vegetables and Slow Comfort FoodsAh, fall: when cozy sweaters come out, the air crisps up, a kaleidoscope of colorful leaves decorate sidewalks, and it’s a struggle to decide which pumpkin-flavored drink to…
Read more Fall Gardening: Can You Stop Watering Now? (And 5 Other Burning Questions) – GardenistaWe’ve all done it: planted something we love only to learn, sometimes years later, that it is invasive where we live. In many cases, we can be forgiven.…
Read more Invasive Plants to Avoid and the Native Alternatives You Should Grow InsteadListen up! Your weeds are trying to tell you something. Like all varieties of plants, individual weeds thrive in particular conditions. Some like it dry, others moist. Some…
Read more Weed Wisdom: What 10 Common Weeds Are Trying to Tell You – GardenistaAre you growing purslane yet (I mean, deliberately)? Its claims to fame are split, 50-50: invasive weed versus superfood. As the latter, it is delicious, and it hollers…
Read more Purslane: Is It a Weed or a Delicious Vegetable? (Plus, a Recipe)In the waning days of fall, a weed that happens to be a wild herb is still growing with enough vigor to defy the season. Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris)…
Read more Mugwort Chips: An Easy Recipe Using the Herb WeedTruthfully, I drink no less than five cups of tea a day. I rotate between different blends, depending on the season and my health needs. So when I…
Read more The Best Beginner-Friendly Medicinal Plants to Grow for Tisanes and TeasWe’ve been writing about Tama Matsuoka Wong for more than a decade—first in 2013 when we joined her for a foraging (and eating) adventure on her 28-acre property…
Read more Tama Matsuoka Wong: An Interview with the Forager ExtraordinaireThere is one cautionary note about eating Bermuda buttercup, and it is related to quantity. Like some other plants (sorrel, lambs quarter, and spinach come to mind), it…
Read more Bermuda Buttercup’s Sour, Bright Flavor Is Great for CookingDo you know where the wild lettuce grows? Ask a bunny. In Beatrix Potter’s eponymous tale, the Flopsy Bunnies eat too many lettuces and fall asleep in an…
Read more Wild Lettuce: A Delicious Foraged Vegetable that Makes an Outstanding Summer SoupFor months, from early spring to the edges of summer, ground ivy’s tubular blue flowers announce its (often resented) presence in sunny lawns or in the high shade…
Read more Ground Ivy: This Pretty Weed that Grows on Lawns Is EdibleThis is part of a series with Perfect Earth Project, a nonprofit dedicated to toxic-free, nature-based gardening, on how you can be more sustainable in your landscapes at…
Read more Rashid Poulson of Brooklyn Bridge Park on Spring Gardening ChoresRewilding doesn’t mean doing nothing. According to Wong, rewilding your land means rethinking how we garden and seeing ourselves as stewards of the land. Instead of trying to…
Read more Tama Matsuoka Wong’s ‘Into the Weeds: How to Garden Like a Forager’Seen through the critical lens of weeds, dandelions are perhaps the most familiar nuisance plant of all. Seen through the appreciative lens of food, they are a welcome…
Read more Dandelion Recipes: Delicious Served as a Wilted Side or in a SaladSpring’s edible weeds are ready to eat. But what is a weed? It’s not a new question but it bears repeating. Is a weed a problem plant, a…
Read more Edible Weeds Are Vegetables in Disguise: Here are 24 Spring Weeds to EatSpring is sprung, the mugwort is riz (at least in Brooklyn, New York). I wonder where the mower is? Because the first, silvery tufts of spring mugwort have…
Read more Mugwort in the Spring: An Edible and Tender Delicate HerbMarijuana has become mainstream, but it isn’t reflected in shows. Weed’s presence in entertainment has generally looked back to stereotypes. Unlike alcohol, it gets more of an over…
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