Here in our recipe index, you’ll find my favorite recipes made from whole, homegrown, and wild edible plants. Many of these recipes are made from wild “weeds” and plants that grow in our backyard gardens and in forested areas.
I believe that food IS medicine. Learn how to make delicious edible, medicinal, and healthy recipes with what grows naturally around us.
Easy Chestnut Hummus: The Holiday Appetizer You’ve Been Waiting For
Chestnut hummus is the perfect appetizer for Christmas or Thanksgiving. Serve with crudités, crackers or chips as a healthy snack or starter to your holiday party.
How to Roast Chestnuts: 5 Easy Methods
When you have fresh chestnuts, there are plenty of ways to roast them. Learn how to roast chestnuts like a pro with these five easy methods.
Chocolate Chestnut Truffles: A Delicious Taste of Fall
Chestnut truffles are a special treat for the holidays. These rich, luxurious bites of pure chestnut flavor are chocolate-covered balls of chestnut puree sprinkled with ground pistachio nuts or coconut.
A Delicious Crabapple Recipe: Hand Pies For Our Ancestors
This crabapple recipe was created as an offering and a way to honor the wisdom and traditions of our ancestors. Enjoy this delicious pastry that captures the essence of crabapple’s beautiful fall fruitiness.
Pumpkin Spice Moon Milk Recipe – The Perfect Drink for Fall
You’ll love this velvety, rich and flavorsome pumpkin spice Moon Milk Recipe. If you love pumpkins then I think you’ll really enjoy this latte full of anti inflammatory spices.
Spiced Pickled Crabapple Recipe: A Delicious Taste of Autumn
This autumn-spiced pickled crabapple recipe is an excellent and delicious way to use a surplus of crabapples in the fall.
10 Best Recipes for Yellow Squash
Check out 10 of my favorite recipes for yellow squash that I will continue to use again and again.
Easy Tart Recipe with Herbs and Fresh Summer Vegetables
This Savory Summer Vegetable Tart recipe is made with flaky pie crust and fresh herbs, sausage, and a variety of summer vegetables including yellow squash. It is the perfect dish to celebrate the bounty of vegetables in your garden!
The Best Recipe for Zucchini Bread
Make this amazing and simple recipe for zucchini bread that is sure to become a favorite.
A Surprising and Delightful Dessert Recipe with Yellow Squash
This surprising and delicious dessert recipe with yellow squash is our favorite way to eat this summer vegetable. With a creamy custard texture and vanilla flavor, it is sure to impress. Even picky eaters will love it!
Old Fashioned Pickled Beets: The Best Way To Preserve Beets
With sweet, tangy and spiced flavors, these old fashioned pickled beets are so good that they’ll win over just about everyone in your house.
How to Make Kimchi: An Easy and Customizable Recipe
Learn how to make kimchi with this simple, customizable recipe to power up your gut with good bacteria.
Easy Bread and Butter Pickles Recipe
This easy microwave bread and butter pickles recipe will become your favorite way to preserve some of your abundant cucumber harvests.
Easy Small Batch Huckleberry Jam Recipe
Learn how to make this simple delicious small batch huckleberry jam recipe from your freshly picked wild huckleberries!
Blueberry Shortcake: The Most Amazing Blueberry Dessert
A new twist on traditional blueberry shortcake. Impress your guests with this super easy and delicious blueberry dessert.
Easy 30 Minute Shortcake Biscuits
This recipe for shortcake biscuits is simple to make and yields the perfect biscuit for shortcake. They take just 30 minutes from start to finish.
Yarrow Tea: Both Magical and Medicinal
Yarrow tea made from yarrow (Achillea Millefolium) has been used in folk medicine for centuries. Discover some of the many benefits so you can harness its magic and medicine.
Eating Weeds: 22 Delicious Dandelion Recipes You Need to Try
If you haven’t been eating weeds, you’re missing out, especially when it comes to dandelion. Try these 22 dandelion recipes!
Edible Lilacs: 7 Delicious Spring Recipes
Edible lilacs are a spring treat that can’t be beat. Try them in one of these amazing recipes.
The Perfect May Wine Recipe for Spring Celebrations
May wine recipe traditionally served in the spring on Beltane or the May Day holiday.
Bannocks Recipe – A Magical Beltane Breakfast Treat
Enjoy this recipe for bannocks, and may they bring you abundance and prosperity in the coming year!
Wine Making
Easy Honeysuckle Wine Recipe: One Gallon
Summer is the time that I most love for making flower wines like this easy recipe for honeysuckle wine. It’s subtle and delicious and totally captures the essence of summer.
Elderflower Wine: The Delicious Essence of Summer
Capture the essence of summertime with this easy elderflower wine ricipe that’s super simple to make.
Amazing Country Rhubarb Wine Recipe
If you grow a lot of Rhubarb, consider making some delicious wine with some of your harvest. It’s tasty and easy to make – here’s how to make Rhubarb Wine.
Making Country Wines: Super Easy 6 Step Method
Making country wines with homegrown, foraged, and handpicked fruit, vegetables, herbs, and flowers is easier than you think! Learn the ins and outs with this fool-proof basic method.
