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#WildEdibleWednesday 8/15 - Heal All

August 15, 2018 Alex Bryant
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Like most medicinal herbs, Heal All was cast aside by modern medicine more than a century ago in favor of synthetic pharmaceuticals. Plant medicines have been considered by most physicians and pharmacists in the past hundred years to be unreliable folk tales at best, and dangerous at worst. Even among the herbal medicine community, Heal All was marginalized to a second-tier herb in favor of more powerful and trendy plants. But modern science may be vindicating it.

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In #WildEdibleWednesday Tags #WildEdibleWednesday, plants, plant medicine, medicinal plants in Georgia, edible plants in Georgia, native plants, alternative medicine, herbalism, botany, taxonomy, heal all, self heal, prunella vulgaris

#WildEdibleWednesday 8/8 - Mountain Mint

August 8, 2018 Alex Bryant
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The power of this herb can’t be underestimated, as is evidenced by the reverence in which native Americans and pioneers alike held it. The Choctaw considered it sacred, and swore by it as a last-ditch effort to revive the dying… and even raise the dead.

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In #WildEdibleWednesday Tags #WildEdibleWednesday, wilderness survival, wild food, wild edibles, wilderness medicine, natural medicine, alternative medicine, native plants, edible plants in Georgia, medicinal plants in Georgia, traditional medicine, mountain mint, botany, taxonomy

#WildEdibleWednesday 8/1 - Sarsaparilla

August 1, 2018 Alex Bryant
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The fact that these plants are valuable as wild edibles and medicinals are evidence that God doesn’t create anything without a purpose, and that everything that grows in the forests and fields has a use… because I absolutely despise them.

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In #WildEdibleWednesday Tags #WildEdibleWednesday, plants, plant medicine, wilderness survival, wild food, wild edibles, edible plants in Georgia, medicinal plants in Georgia, botany, herbology, foraging

#WildEdibleWednesday 7/25 - Maypop Passionflower

July 25, 2018 Alex Bryant
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“Before all children everywhere became locked on iPad screens, kids in the country used to have fights with green maypops. They’re a uniform shape and easy to throw accurately, and they raise a good welt if you throw them hard. They make an awesome hand grenade if you’re nine years old and have an active imagination. (I may or may not be speaking from experience.)”

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In #WildEdibleWednesday Tags plants, plant medicine, food, wilderness survival, #WildEdibleWednesday, wild edibles, edible plants in Georgia, medicinal plants in Georgia, native plants, history, botany, taxonomy, herbology, foraging, maypop, passionflower, fruit

#WildEdibleWednesday 7/18 - Fleabane

July 18, 2018 Alex Bryant
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“And all those paintings, books, and movies depicting pretty medieval peasant girls with a sprig of the daisy-like flowers tucked behind their ear or woven into crown? They were trying to keep fleas out of their hair, which was a constant problem in the Middle Ages. Attractive, right?”

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In #WildEdibleWednesday Tags plants, plant medicine, botany, wilderness survival, native plants, edible plants, edible plants in Georgia, medicinal plants in Georgia

#WildEdibleWednesday 7/11 - Golden Chanterelle

July 11, 2018 Alex Bryant
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I was hiking through Shenandoah National Park in northern Virginia and happened upon a kindly old man and his wife picking mushrooms. I asked what he was harvesting and he replied, “Chanterelles. They’re the best mushrooms in the world. You want some?”

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In #WildEdibleWednesday Tags #WildEdibleWednesday, food, wild food, wild edibles, mushrooms, edible mushrooms, edible mushrooms in georgia, wilderness survival, cooking

#WildEdibleWednesday 7/4 - White Pine

July 4, 2018 Alex Bryant
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“The true American answer to overbearing authority is defiance, not obedience. After all, they were willing to pick a fight with the British Crown over a tree.”

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In #WildEdibleWednesday Tags plants, wild edibles, wilderness survival, #WildEdibleWednesday, edible plants in Georgia, medicinal plants in Georgia, plant medicine, native plants, history, America

#WildEdibleWednesday 6/27 - Blackberry

June 27, 2018 Alex Bryant
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“Although they grow all over the world, blackberries are about as all-American as it gets. They’re a part of our culture, especially in the South. I have many fond memories of picking blackberries with friends and family, and then enjoying a cobbler fresh out of the oven with vanilla ice cream that evening.”

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In #WildEdibleWednesday Tags plants, plant medicine, food, foraging, edible plants in Georgia, medicinal plants in Georgia, wild food, wilderness survival, wild edibles, blackberries, botany, taxonomy, traditional medicine, skills

#WildEdibleWednesday 6/20 - Bull Thistle

June 20, 2018 Alex Bryant
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Most plants in the Aster family are beautiful, delicate, meadow flowers that are the kind of thing you’d pick for your lady friend or that an artist would paint a still life of. Not bull thistle. Oh, naw. It looks like it came straight out of Little Shop of Horrors, and if you don’t cut it down, it’ll break into song and try to eat Rick Moranis.

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In #WildEdibleWednesday Tags wilderness survival, wild food, wild edibles, edible plants in Georgia, medicinal plants in Georgia, botany, taxonomy, foraging, food, medicine

Instructor Corps Pro Tip 6/19 - Treating poisoning with charcoal

June 19, 2018 Alex Bryant
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Is it as good as activated charcoal? No. But could it potentially save your life in a survival situation? Absolutely.

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In Survival Tags wilderness survival, wilderness medicine, charcoal, Fire, Firecraft, skills, outdoor education, outdoor skills

#WildEdibleWednesday 6/13 - Dewberry

June 13, 2018 Alex Bryant
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Some plants that we’ve covered in the past, while they’ll keep you alive and might even be highly nutritious, really just taste awful. But then there are those that are not only passable, but delicious.

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In #WildEdibleWednesday Tags #WildEdibleWednesday, plants, botany, taxonomy, edibles, wild edibles, edible plants in Georgia, medicinal plants in Georgia, native plants, wilderness survival, wild food, dewberry

#WildEdibleWednesday 6/6 - Henbit Deadnettle

June 6, 2018 Alex Bryant
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So named because chickens absolutely love it, it’s very closely related to Purple Deadnettle from a few months ago, and the two can be used interchangeably. Consider it a 2-for-1 deadnettle deal: If you can learn how to use one, you know how to use the other by default.

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In #WildEdibleWednesday Tags plants, wilderness survival, wild food, wild edibles, medicine, plant medicine, edible plants in Georgia, medicinal plants in Georgia, #WildEdibleWednesday, foraging, botany, taxonomy, henbit, henbit deadnettle

#WildEdibleWednesday 5/30 - Oxeye Daisy

May 30, 2018 Alex Bryant
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One of the most recognizable wildflowers in the world, daisies have also been used as a medicinal plant for thousands of years.

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In #WildEdibleWednesday Tags Plants, plant medicine, edible plants in Georgia, medicinal plants in Georgia, botany, foraging, wilderness survival, wild edibles, #WildEdibleWednesday

#WildEdibleWednesday 5/23 - Red Clover

May 23, 2018 Alex Bryant
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“As medicine advances and more and more compounds are synthesized from natural sources, maybe it’s time we humbled ourselves and realized that the ancients knew what they were talking about.”.

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In #WildEdibleWednesday Tags #WildEdibleWednesday, edible plants, edible plants in Georgia, medicine, medicinal plants in Georgia, native plants, natural medicine, history, folklore, wild edibles, wilderness survival, botany

#WildEdibleWednesday 5/16 - Wood Sorrel

May 16, 2018 Alex Bryant
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“In an ironic twist of fate which we find highly entertaining, some of the fanciest restaurants in New York, L.A., Atlanta, and elsewhere serve wood sorrel as a garnish or a dish to complement meals that would be worth a few day’s pay for us.”

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In #WildEdibleWednesday Tags plants, wild edibles, edible plants in Georgia, medicinal plants in Georgia, wilderness survival, wild food, wilderness, wood sorrel, traditional medicine, botany, herbology, foraging

#WildEdibleWednesday 5/9 - Lyre-Leaf Sage

May 9, 2018 Alex Bryant
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Native Americans and early pioneers held to the belief that “like cured like.” So, since lyre-leaf sage spreads quickly and aggressively over the ground like a cancer, it naturally made sense to use it to treat the disease.

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In #WildEdibleWednesday Tags botany, bushcraft, wilderness survival, edible plants in Georgia, plant medicine, plants, native plants

#WildEdibleWednesday 5/2 - Ground Ivy

May 2, 2018 Alex Bryant
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It’s the herpes of the plant world – once you’ve got it… you’ve got it. It’s nearly impossible to kill, and most conventional weed removal methods actually help it spread. But here at SARCRAFT, we have a solution: Eat it.

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In #WildEdibleWednesday Tags plants, plant medicine, native plants, history, botany, taxonomy, edible plants in Georgia, edible plants, wild food, wild edibles, wilderness survival

SARCRAFT News April 2018

May 1, 2018 Alex Bryant

Wanna know what’s been going on at SARCRAFT this past month? Read on!

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In News Tags newsletter, news, wilderness survival, homesteading, sustainability, plant medicine, native plants, edible plants in Georgia

#WildEdibleWednesday 4/25 - Common Vetch

April 25, 2018 Alex Bryant
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Vetch and humans go way back. Way, way back, like 10,000-15,000 years. With a few exceptions such as cereal grains, vetch is arguably the oldest plant cultivated by humans.

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In #WildEdibleWednesday Tags wilderness survival, wild food, wild edibles, #WildEdibleWednesday, native plants, edible plants, edible plants in Georgia, vetch, botany, history, Bushcraft

#WildEdibleWednesday 4/18 - Red Maple

April 18, 2018 Alex Bryant
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"It’s the kid on the team that isn’t great at anything, but is reliable and always around when you need him… since red maple is everywhere, it’s a tree you can rely on that will work decently well for a wide variety of uses."

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In #WildEdibleWednesday Tags native plants, edible plants in Georgia, botany, taxonomy, trees, wilderness survival, wild edibles, wild food
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