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One of my favorite ways to preserve food (and increase the vitamin content as well as the healthy bacteria) is fermenting them. I make sauerkraut, pickles, kimchee, etc, and I love the flavor and the good probiotics in it. Something I found out during my research for a talk I was giving at a...

Several people had told me of the wonders of charcoal soap for skin issues. I made a small batch a while ago, and it did help with my grandson's psoriasis. I have, er, mature, skin, and it even helped with some menopausal breakouts without drying my skin. I made a batch last afternoon, and...

We are big time foragers and this fall has a pretty good year for mushrooms. I normally get puffballs and oyster mushrooms, but this year we also hit the mother lode in comb-tooth mushrooms! We pick fruit for wine, harvest wild rice, find rosehips, and so on. What else do you forage for?