In the city we saw a beautiful empty lot. Out front is a notice to “destroy weeds.”
Meanwhile, it’s a beautiful patch of goldenrod, wild mint and morning glories.
Last year we missed harvesting goldenrod but this year we’re on it. It’s a beautiful and useful medicinal plant. We plan to make tinctures and teas with it. I also plan to try using some as a replacement for hops in some home brew. It has a bitter flavor that is similar.
We’ve laid some out to dry and are headed back to pick more – the weather is lovely, and the city is on the hunt for growers of medicinal plants and bee forage providers people with overgrown lots.
You can have greener thumbs by this weekend!
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Sweet! … we just foraged a whole bunch of GR today along with some wintergreen and sweet-fern (Comptonia peregrina) … we put up a half gallon of this mix with warmed raw honey and the rest will be used for winter tea. In a month or so the infused honey will be used on biscuits and raw milk yogurt for morning meals. It’s a great way to preserve the wild herbs and harness all of the rich health benefits at the same time.
That is awesome. You just pour honey over it? That’s a new one!
David, yes! … just pour the honey over it and cap on tight. We flip it over once a day for the 1st couple days to keep the plant material well soaked, but that;s it!,,, while we like to give it a good month, or at least a few weeks, we had a little on our yogurt this morning and it’s already has an amazing flavor.
Just an aside, have you ever tried fermenting your garlic cloves in honey? … just put the peeled cloves in a jar, fill about 2/3 full w/ honey and it will ferment nicely ..just keep the cap loose so gas can escape! … either use a weight to keep the garlic submerged or flip the jar every couple days. It will thin up a bit as the garlic releases liquid, but it keeps forever and besides tasting wonderful (especially dribbled over grilled chicken), but it is a potent medicine when taken b y the spoonful for infections/cold. …etc :)
How do you use goldenrod? It’s just about done here but there are a few flowers here and there.
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