What a productive day!
I did some wild harvesting this morning, Started around 6am and got home
around 9:00 . I wish I had taken Anya,
I found more than I expected. But I went out alone and enjoyed it immensely. I
went looking specifically to find and mark wild coffee and crab apples. Didn’t
find either one. But also just to check on how fall goods are coming along.
Did farm chores and harvested from the homestead, then in
for a rest, cold tea and a big bowl of my homemade granola with dried
raspberries and goats milk. Poppy is getting much better on the stand so we’re
starting to get more usable milk from her.
From the homestead today we got 9 eggs, a pint of milk,
Vervain, wormwood, yarrow, mugwort, peppermint, spearmint, Thuja, grape leaves
tansy, lemonbalm, polk berries and leaves, plantain, lambs quarters, blue
catnip (spicy flavored, I use for teas only), gooseberries, Echinacea
and a bouquet of queen ann, just for her beauty.
From wild harvest, late cinquefoil, willow, wild onion, cat
brier and grape tendrils, plantain, the first drying dock seeds, sorrel,
bergamot, purslane, self heal, chickweed,
I spent a few hours on preparing the herbs I harvested for
drying etc. Most will go toward winter stores. I always start thinking about
winter in July. There could be hard cold and snow in 5 months.
The rest of the day I sent on tincturing. I also had two
orders to fill and worked on online listings etc on my breaks.
All in all a most excellent day :)
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