LIVING OFF THE LAND -- Is it possible in the city? Billy Nickel, 53, is a professional electrician who has also spent hundreds of hours in the last 15 years studying ethno-botany, and related survival skills. In the early spring of 2010, he was between jobs and living...
LAMBS QUARTER GROWS IN EVERYONE’S YARD
Learn to recognize and use this valuable plant These days, everyone wants to eat the hip “new” nutritional foods: kale, chia, quinoa, and many of the others that are found in the latest chef’s restaurant where all the beautiful people go. Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa) is a seed that has been...
WILD-CRAFTING: Pros and Cons
WHY YOU SHOULD LEARN TO GROW AND HARVEST YOUR OWN HERBS [Nyerges has been teaching ethnobotany since 1974. He is the author of “Guide to Wild Foods,” “Foraging Edible Wild Plants of North America,” and 20 other books. More information at www.SchoolofSelf-Reliance.com]. Recently I participated in a nation-wide on-line Wild...