Category: Foraging

  • Snippets and Highlights

    Greetings, readers! As usual, the best laid plans of mice and men, when not backed up by good habits, gang aft agley. So to get back on track, I thought I would post some highlights of homesteading thing-a-ma-jigs we have accomplished over the last couple of years. Chicken infrastructure: For small numbers of chickens. I…

  • Of mushrooms

    Of mushrooms

    Growing up in semi-rural Canterbury, one of my joys was the occasional opportunity to collect wild mushrooms. These were typically the field mushroom, which I’m told is Agaricus campestris, though some of the larger specimens may in fact have been the horse mushroom (A. arvensis). Even then, I wasn’t one to turn up my nose…