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Poisonous Plants Basics
Plants are amazing creatures that produce many great benefits for human consumption. We get most of our medicines from plants, our foods and even our beauty products. Still, there are certain plants...
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Homemade Bird Feeders
Bird watching is an engaging and educational hobby that offers a unique blend of excitement and tranquility you won’t find anywhere else. Although a wide variety of birds will often be seen during a...
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Yellow Jacket Stings
Yellow Jacket Stings. These words are enough to make the average American recall memories of checkered tablecloths and picnics, swarmed by black and yellow bodies. Most people view this insect as a...
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Plant Identification Quiz #8
Ahhh, summer. A time for camping. In the Northwest, June tends to be a rainy month. At least our greenness stays till August due to the rains. And for some reason, people get married more in this...
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Herbal Home Remedies: Herbal Vinegars – Part 1
Aromatic Delights from your Garden A pantry full of herbal vinegars is a constant delight. Preserving fresh herbs and roots in vinegar is an easy way to capture their nourishing goodness. It’s easy...
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How to Read a Compass
Navigation by way of compass may seem daunting at first to a beginner, but this trepidation shouldn’t stand in the way of learning to use one. In fact, once the basics are down, a compass will be a...
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Herbal Home Remedies: Herbal Vinegars – Part 2
Aromatic Delights from your Garden Part One of this article explained herbal vinegars’ many potent qualities as herbal home remedies, and reviewed the basic tools and simple process of making herbal...
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Plant Identification Quiz #9
Have you noticed the position of the sun lately? Have you noticed the way the shadows are getting just a little bit longer, the afternoons a little lazier and the evenings are starting to cool off a...
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Stories of Ravens
A large black bird flies past my window in the near distance, just above the tops of the trees beyond the field behind my house. Between twenty-two and twenty-seven inches long, with a wedge-shaped...
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How to Boost Your Immune System | Prevent Colds and Flu
Winter is when we are most likely to catch a cold or the flu. With Susun Weed’s help, you can prepare yourself with herbs and home remedies to avoid infection and boost your immune system. Ms. Weed...
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How to Boost Your Immune System | Natural Antibiotics
Anthrax. Smallpox. Plague. Diseases that can kill. Diseases that are now in the hands of terrorists. What if these diseases were released in your hometown, or the place where you work? What could you...
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Plant Identification Quiz #10
I had the opportunity to make a change recently – actually, several changes. One thing I learned was that sometimes change can be stressful. Especially when you HAVE to make a change and you may not...
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Wilderness Survival vs. Primitive Living – Part 1
I often hear these terms used interchangeably. To me, they are very different topics. They are certainly related, but I look at them as similar topics on a continuum. Primitive Living is a skill set...
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Cruciferous Vegetables as Herbal Medicine
Brassicaceae family ‘aka’ Cruciferae (crucifix) family Herbal medicine is people’s medicine; herbal medicine is women’s medicine. Most women alive today, everywhere across this planet, rely on local...
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Wilderness Survival vs. Primitive Living – Part 2
Wilderness survival conjures up images of accidents, getting lost, and general mishaps. These are serious threats to your life and must be dealt with in an efficient and expedient manner. Primitive...
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Primitive Stone Tools
Finding yourself in the outdoors without a knife or a tool — faced with a simple task you usually take for granted — can be quite a surprise and a challenge. Perhaps you need to cut some material,...
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Herbal Medicine from the Asteraceae Plant Family
Herbal medicine is people’s medicine, earth medicine, wild medicine, weed medicine. Weeds are amazing powerhouses of nourishment, medicine, magic, and beauty. They are easy to grow and simple to use....
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Rose Family Herbal Medicine
Herbal medicine is people’s medicine. And people’s medicines are the medicines of the earth: the common weeds. Weeds, though often reviled, are powerhouses of nourishment, medicine, magic, and beauty....
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Plant Identification Quiz #11
This time of year is the true South in the Medicine Wheel of life, being that it is summer in the Northern Hemisphere and the fire and heat of the sun has been upon us for a few weeks now. July in the...
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Herbal Home Remedies: Be Your Own Herbal Expert – Part 1
Herbal medicine is the medicine of the people. It is simple, safe, effective, and free. Our ancestors knew how to use an enormous variety of plants for health and well being. Our neighbors around the...
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