Learning about Edible Plants, Going off Diet is easy

    It's pretty easy to go off a diet. Even if you've had cancer and really "want" to change the way you do things, it's still quite easy to go off a diet. I went to an instructional day for myself, Ms. Master Naturalist member, to learn about edible AND medicinal plants you can find in a field or the woods. You can even find edible plants in your yard-- if you have a big enough yard, that is. And not a suburban  yard. Suburban yards are ridiculously manicured-- where do you find edible plants --- roses? Actually, you can get vitamin C from the  "fruit" of the rose, what is called rose hips. And you can boil the flowers or leaves to make tea. You can boil inner bark in the woods if you get hungry enough.
    Our instructor had foraged with Euell Gibbons, the fellow who stalked the wild asparagus and wrote about it. So we learned a lot. Jewelweed can be used on poison ivy and bug bites, yarrow, boneset and clover help your immune system, spicebush leaves are aromatic and many things can be made into teas. These things are not being passed down and our food is mass produced and not that healthy. We need to go forage in  the woods!