Canning is one of those archetypical homesteading skills that finds itself in the mental picture we all have of the lifestyle. And this isn’t without reason; preserving food in glass jars by way of canning is an extremely useful way to make sure your valuable harvest doesn’t go to waste….
Another easy food to forage in winter, at least around here in the parts of the Eastern woodlands that are predominantly mixed forests, is the wintergreen plant. Wintergreen is a plant that grows primarily by forming colonies with massive connected underground roots that thrive in the woody duff. For our…
A few years ago when I was doing small game trapping more regularly in the late fall and winter, I would regularly enough forage in between checking traps. Even going into winter with the snowfall I’d be able to find at least a little. The main area I trapped at…
Making a really good stock is one of those simple sort of skills that a lot of people don’t seem to know to do. It’s an essential way to get the most out of an animal that’s been killed to feed you and yours, and although I’m a piss poor…
Here’s a quick tip for winter foraging: barberries are edible. Barberry is a short, thorny bush that’s been used to decoration for a long time. That’s the main reason why they’re so widespread and basically invasive. There’s a native variety, but most of what we see is the Japanese barberry…
