When it’s time for me to cook or bake something really special, I look through my foraged spice cabinet. I…
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Spruce Tips: a Tasty Spring Treat
Let me start by saying that even though spruce tips are a springtime treat in my neck of the woods,…
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Pink Peppercorns aka Schinus molle
I once paid $34 for a big bag of pink peppercorns. That’s embarassing to admit, but I needed the spice…
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Wild Ginger, aka Asarum canadense
Our native wild ginger is a lovely, low maintenance ground cover perfect for a shady garden. It’s also one of…
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Sweet Fern, aka Comptonia peregrina
I grew up going to summer camp in the White Mountains of NH, where the dirt roads and trails were…
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