Category Archives: Chickweed benefits

Making chickweed and rosemary herbal soap

Making chickweed and rosemary herbal soap

I make soap now! check out my etsy to buy some natural and homemade soap. www.etsy.com/shop/MellifexFarm Mellifex Farm is a small hobby farm located in Central Texas. On it, we raise mini nubian goats for milk, along with Lucerne pigeons…

Chickweed Soup

Chickweed Soup

One of our favorite edible weeds, which can be found almost all year long. More information about chickweed and how to use it can be found on our website: https://organicartranch.org/2020/01/29/chickweed-stellaria-media/ Please subscribe to our channel. Our Instagram: www.instagram.com/organicartranch Our Facebook:…

How to Identify Red Clover

How to Identify Red Clover

Red clover identification is really easy, and this is an edible wild plant well worth gathering. Edible and medicinal, red clover (Trifolium pratense) grows all over the world. For more see the links below. – Red Clover PDF (over 20…

How to Identify New England Aster

How to Identify New England Aster

New England Asters (Symphyotrichum novae angliae) are native to many areas of Canada and the U.S. Easy to identify, they have large rose-purple flowers with numerous rays, and are an important nectar source for bees. For more info see the…

How to Identify Selfheal

How to Identify Selfheal

Selfheal (also called heal all) is a useful, tenacious plant that loves lawns. It attracts bees and butterflies when flowering and is edible. Selfheal (Prunella vulgaris) is a favourite plant used in home apothecaries. For more info see the links…

How to Identify Chicory

How to Identify Chicory

Chicory (Cichorium intybus) is a perennial plant with a beautiful blue flower, and has often been described as a coffee substitute. In my opinion, there is no substitute for coffee – coffee is coffee. Ground roasted chicory root can be…

Meadowsweet

Meadowsweet

Meadowsweet is always nice to find on a hike. While it is edible, meadowsweet (Spiraea alba) is better known as a constituent in many herbal remedies (the flower contains salicylic acid, a chemical that belongs to the same class of…

Lemon Balm Grows Wild

Lemon Balm Grows Wild

Lemon Balm (Melissa officinalis) is commonly recognized as a cultivated plant yet it also grows in the wild (for more info see the links below). The medical uses of Lemon Balm has over 2,000 years of history, and today’s science…