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"For you, a thousand times over." ( they said you were the crooked kind – that you’d never have no worth – but you were always gold to me )

[beanleaf]

Flowers flowers flowers

[lavendette]

Treasures 🍂

[malnedott]

this church is so cute .... 🍃

[tofublock]

the shore

[cottagelf]

[baroness]

To the people of the United States, April 2020

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

Hello, all! My first foraging recipe will go up on my patreon later this week!

Garlic mustard & Wild garlic pesto will be the topic of this recipe!

Become a $1 patron to access it and more to come, as well as support the writing of my current story :^) !!

[eternalstrigoii]

Swear this is not a mean take @ OP or anyone else, but I’ve been hearing from my local forest preserve officials that foraging is doing excessive amounts of harm, so I feel the need to remind people with a post like this getting popular: PLEASE hit up your local forest preserve officials for info BEFORE you forage! It doesn’t matter if you’re a first timer or if you’ve done it a thousand times before, your local land management is there for a reason! They exist to keep the native ecosystem in balance; PLEASE contact them before you go mushroom hunting, forage, etc, and inform them of what you’d like to do so they can tell you a) if you’re allowed to do it b) where you’re allowed to do it c) if there are any places where you are not allowed to do it or d) important information about what you want to do, like whether or not you need a permit or a guide or have a closed season or anything like that, I don’t know, I don’t take anything out of my local preserves but stray cats. Just please communicate with your DNR / Fish and Wildlife / County Forest Preserve officials through social media or something, I’m begging.

And PLEASE stay on the trail! For the sake of nature AND so you don’t get lyme disease or that weird Lone Star Tick Meat Allergy!

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

I’m a wildlife biologist who has worked for the Ohio Division of Natural Resources.

All of my foraging recipes discuss foraging safety, following state & local laws, and environmental responsible foraging.

These photos were taken on a family farm.

That all said, in the U.S. you can get on a state & national park’s website and find out what/when you’re allowed to forage.

The ODNR Parks and Watercraft department reminds you that mushroom hunting is allowed, but one should contact the specific state park to ask about rules.

Rules vary from park to park. Not all parks require you to stay on-trail, but parks that do, like Hocking Hills, require it for a reason (cliffs! Endangered species! Cliffs!). Hocking also closes after dark (cliffs!) while other parks don’t.

Just read the signs. Please.

[mallomousey]

Also some states have foraging laws, such as Minnesota where you can only forage for nuts, berries, and mushrooms. And if a place tells you no, please respect it. We have had morels at Glen Helen and we were so excited to show the kids, only for it to be gone in a couple hours by thieves (yes thieves, because only us naturalists were allowed to forage for educational purposes) Foraging is not something you should just pick up a book and go into the woods with. It requires research, networking, and a respect for the resources and environment you harvest from.

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

Yep! In many Ohio State Parks, I believe it’s only mushrooms and pinecones! It’s been a few years though, so that may have changed. You’re absolutely right though! Some regular foraging items are off-limits at specific spots :^) !

[glumshoe]

Garlic mustard is super invasive in the USA so it’s good to pull up even if you don’t plan to eat it–it’s one of the few things you can forage for without worrying that you’re over-harvesting it or damaging an ecosystem. The main concerns are herbicides (if you plan to eat it), and disturbing the soil with foot traffic, making it easier for new invasive plants to take root. If you know you’re allowed to go off-trail, can identify garlic mustard, and know it’s not sprayed with herbicides, just go ham on it and pull it up by the roots. 

[malnedott]

thrift shop find !

[antoniettabrandeisova]

The roses of Heliogabalus (detail) 1888. Lawrence Alma-Tadema

[yenpondering]

The Daily Life of a Simple Girl

[ascan39]

６月

「愛希望」

http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm31306384

【ASCAN WORK】

[vint-agge-xx]

Early 1900s

[stamp-it-to-me]

two 1973 Norwegian stamps from a series on flowers.

[id: two rectangular postage stamps, both with illustrations of flowers. the left depicts yellow wood violets while the right depicts rock speedwell, which has blue flowers. end id]

[churchrummagesale]

Abandoned houses of North Carolina: Fall

[tkkatherineblog]

Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire Inst @kasial91

[retrolesbians]

1975 Picture Series: “The Castaways”

[dappermouth]

A playlist for a strange, soft summer evening, where you feel yourself slipping between here and some other place.