Our Food is Our Medicine

Our Food is Our Medicine



By Chickadee.


We are so far removed from our food that we don’t even know this.

Buy it frozen, or order it from the waitress.

How many people have gone and picked their dinner from the bush.

I know not everybody can do this, but to have the knowledge is a precious thing.

When I take the kids out to the forest with me, I try to teach them that they need not

take it all, ‘to leave some for the birds’ as a good friend of mine taught me.

If this could be instilled into half of human kind living on this world.

This planet would be far better off.
You don’t need to take it all. To leave some for someone or something else.

We are far too greedy for our own good.

I try to teach this to the young ones when I take them hunting . That if they take all the game,
there will be none to make the babies for next year. It is so simple, yet so
hard for everyone to see.

I will talk of the bounty of the forests as the seasons come and go.
There is so much to be harvested, that it would be boring
For the average person to read it all in one sitting.

There is a lot I will not tell, as it is for the healers to know.
If there is need for this strong medicine, it is to be had.

It will be another month before we can go and pick the
Tender green shoots of the fiddlehead ferns.
Now we can look for the young leaves of the dandy lion.
It is good in a salad and the roots are very good for a liver tonic.
Red elder flower will soon be filling the air with their yeasty sent.
Makes a fine spring tonic when mixed with some lemon and left to ferment for a couple of weeks.
The flowers of the salmon berries will be showing their little faces soon.

Just the bright red flowers, with hardly any leafs on the bush. I like to pick the flowers and dry them to make a tea.

Mix it with the young nettles that will be ready to pick soon. Nettles are great pot-herb,

good in vitamins, even makes a good wine!

The wild strawberry flower is ready to be picked about the same time.

The spruce tips will be the next things to harvest. I like to make a beer with these

sweet young growths.

The liquorice fern is available all year around to one that knows
"Where to look."
Dee.