Herbs And Plants And Things

Because I’m a very specific type of nerd.

[random-plant-geek]

Crowberry Flowers❤️

In a month or two these tiny little plants will be covered on black berries!

Food uses for the berries include being stewed and used for syrups, cakes, muffins, fruit leather, and savory jams and jellies. An ice-cream topping can be made by mixing stewed Crowberries with honey and lemon.

For medicinal purposes, Discovering Wild Plants by Janice J. Schofield says this:

“Infusions of crowberry twigs and stems have been administered for colds, kidney troubles, and tuberculosis. Dena'ina Athabascans drink the tea for diarrhea. Kobuk River Eskimos use crowberry juice in sore eyes torelieve snowblindness. Decoctions of the roots and bark have also been used for sore eyes and cataracts.”

Crowberries are often found in bogs, heaths, tundra, and high mountains (the latter being where I took these photos yesterday). They range from Alaska and the Yukon to California.

Also something to note is that when you find them, you often find them in bulk. This is a mountainside completely covered in Crowberry flowers :-)

[random-plant-geek]

No idea what kind of mushroom it is, but it looks whimsical 🍄

[headspace-hotel]

i need y'all to steal and repost my anti-lawn memes to as many pinterest boards and facebook pages as possible

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Inspired by this post

[itstimeforstarwars]

Working in the garden center for a year now has ruined my life I see a plant on the side of the road and I'm like "we sell those :) they will die in six weeks because they're tropical plants from florida and we live in the fucking desert and you put them outside :)" and then i see another plant in someone's garden and I'm like "lmao that's a marigold. Look what you've done to my peonies."

[random-plant-geek]

I do the same with wild plants!

I’m like ‘oh look that’s plantain weed one of the best herbs you could possibly want for infection in a survival situation and you are pulling it up, but you’re leaving the false hellebore that is extremely deadly poisonous because it’s “pretty” ’

[random-plant-geek]

You know what I wish I saw more in post-apocalyptic movies/books? People actually living off the land. Not just fighting over food and resources. Because let’s face it: it’s not the people who live in the middle of cities that are going to survive, but the farmers, the hunters, the foragers. People who actually have skill where they can keep themselves alive with minimal contact with humans.

I want to see people using animal pelts for blankets and clothes, I want to see people making their own moccasins and gloves, and making jerky for the winter

I want to see people healing infected wounds with a plantain weed poultice, eating the inner bark out of pine trees, and curing their colds with yarrow.

Native Americans were surviving fine for thousands of years living off the land in that manner. I know people who could disappear into the woods and never be seen again, yet live perfectly good lives roughing it.