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Honeysuckle Infused Sweet Tea
Honeysuckle, summertime heat and southern sweet have always gone hand in hand, but when you start combining them in a glass with ice, well now that’s just crazy talk! The subtle honeysuckle flavor is...
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Delicious Daylilies
This time of year is filled with spring buds, sprouting tree leaves and the reemergence of bountiful wild edibles. One of my favorites that isn’t necessarily “wild” is Daylily greens. I tend to...
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Curly Dock Cream Sauce
God has given us so many wild foods that we’ve slowly lost touch with. One that grows abundantly in our area is Curly Dock, Rumex crispus. It grows heartily anywhere it’s given a chance and all parts...
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Wild Plum Sweet Bread
Prunus angustifolia, sometimes known as Chickasaw Plum, Sand Plum or Sandhill Plum, isanother of God’s many gifts of wild food to us. This misshapen, often scraggly looking bushblooms with small white...
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Hickory Nut Milk (Kanuchi)
Hickory Nut Milk is a favorite of ours in the Fall. The resulting “milk” is surprisingly tasty. We like to drink it warm with just a little honey added!Gather your Hickory nuts (hulls removed) and...
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Foraging and Using Acorns
Fall is a unique time for foraging because of the shift in what is available, nuts as opposed to greens and fruits. Nuts are an important forage to add to your list because they provide carbohydrates...
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Brown Sugar Acorn Flour Cookies
You can substitute acorn flour into any recipe, (see the post Foraging and Using Acorns) but these cookies are one of my favorites. Brown Sugar Cookies were something my grandmother made often, and...
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Nell’s Black Walnut Cookies (Nutty Fingers)
Black Walnuts are a lot of work, but as both food and medicine, they are of undisputable value. This is a recipe my Granny used to make with whatever nuts were available. Black Walnuts, Pecans,...
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Prickly Pear Jelly
We love when Prickly pear fruit begins to ripen and enjoy the fruit as “Kool-Aid”, syrup and jelly. The fruit on our cactus is pretty small, but this year a friend of ours gave us some HUGE fruit from...
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Deer Fat Candles
Post Update: This was a blog article I did in 2014 that I get a lot of questions about. Some people even want to argue about it, which I find curious, so I’m adding some clarification. Some years we...
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