Nashville, TN Residents: Nashville Sustainability Needs Your Help TODAY!

Nashville needs your help TODAY! The Metro Council hearing on the Proposal for Backyard Poultry Bill is TODAY. Backyard poultry is a big part of self-reliant food production and urban sustainability. This very important to residents and their families!! Please send a short email note to the Metro Council representative in your district AND to all Council [...]

OUTDOOR SURVIVAL: THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO EQUIPMENT AND TECHNIQUES by Garth Hattingh (A Review)

OUTDOOR SURVIVAL is your guide to: All-Terrain gear for single- and multi-day excursions Finding shelter, water and food in the wild Navigating with maps, compass and the night skies Communication and rescue First aid and handling medical emergencies About the Author: Garth Hattingh has been involved in outdoor and adventure activities for over 30 years.  [...]

DARE TO PREPARE! by Holly Drennan Deyo (Complete Guide to Preparedness)

DARE TO PREPARE is in huge demand due to current terrorist threats,  economic uncertainty and increasing natural disasters. Written by Holly Drennan Deyo with an introduction by Stan Deyo, this magnificent work is THE ultimate  city-suburban-rural emergency preparedness reference book. Dare To Prepare is  a large 8-1/2″ by 11″ format paperback – about the size [...]

WHITE PINE (Pinus strobus) ~ LuminEarth’s Guide to Wild Edible & Medicinal Plants

Names:  Eastern White Pine, Northern Pine, Northern White Pine, Pin Blanc, Pinus strobus, Soft Pine, Weymouth Pine, Weymouths Keifer, Weymouthtall, White Pine Appearance:  The White Pine (Pinus strobus) is a coniferous evergreen tree.  It’s trunk is tall and stright and the needles are blue-green.  Young trees are conical shaped, but as the trees age they develop [...]

Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) ~ LuminEarth’s Guide to Wild Edible & Medicinal Plants

Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) Other Names:  Bitterwort, Blow-ball, Cankerwort, Clockflower,  Doonheadclock, Irish Daisy, Lion’s Tooth, Piss-in-Bed, Pissinlit, Priest’s Crown,  Pu Gong Ying, Puffball, Swine’s Snout, Taraxacum officinale, Taraxaci herba, Taraxaci radix cum herba, Telltime, Yellow Gowan, Wild Endive Dandelion Flower (Taraxacum officinale) Click Here to Visit our FREE Online Guide to Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants (Alphabetical [...]

FREE Emergency Email & Wireless Network for Citizens of the U.S.

THE EMERGENCY EMAIL & WIRELESS NETWORK Many people aren’t aware of this free service. Emergency notifications of breaking weather alerts, health, homeland and cyber info will be sent to your email and wireless device–all free of charge. Both my husband andI have been using this service for years, and it’s just wonderful.  Severe weather warnings [...]

Sassafras (Sassafras albidum) ~ LuminEarth’s How to Identify Wild Edible & Medicinal Plants

  Names:  Sassafras (Sassafras albidum), Ague Tree, Cinnamon Wood, Common Sassafras, Gui Zhi, Kuntze Saloop, Laurus albida, Sasafras, Sassafrax, Sassafras albidum, Sassafras officinale, Sassafras variifolium, Saxifrax. Appearance:  The sassafras is a medium sized tree ranging from 10-125 feet tall. This tree has 3 different kinds of leaves. One is oval, one has two lobes and [...]

White Dutch Clover (Trifolium repens) ~ LuminEarth’s How to Identify Wild Edible & Medicinal Plants

Names:  White Dutch Clover (Trifolium repens) , White Clover, Ladino Clover, Clover, White Shamrock, Shamrock Appearance:  Clovers have leaves in sets of three with a flower head ranging in color from white, cream to pinkish tinged. Harvesting:  White Dutch Clover is found in lawns, fields, pastures, and disturbed areas. The young leaves are best harvested [...]

Lady’s Thumb (Polygonum persicaria) ~ LuminEarth’s Guide to Wild Edible & Medicinal Plants

Names:   Lady’s Thumb (Polygonum persicaria), Smartweed, Knotweed, Spotted Ladysthumb, Fedshank, Floh-Knöterich, Renouée persicaire, Persicaria, Duraznillo, Arsesmart, La Liao, Water Pepper, Polygonum Hydropiper, Red leg, Knotweed, Tear-thumb, Pennsylvania Smartweed Lady’s Thumb (Polygonum persicaria) Appearance: Lady’s Thumb is an annual plant and a member of the buckwheat family. It has narrow, pointed lance shaped leaves ranging in [...]

Ground Ivy (Glechoma hederacea) ~ LuminEarth’s Guide to Wild Edible & Medicinal Plants

GROUND IVY (Glechoma hederacea) Other Names: Alehoof, Cat’s Foot, Cat’s Paw,  Creeping Charlie, Gill-Go-By-The Hedge,  Gill-Over-The-Ground, Gillrun, Hay Maids, Hedge Maids, Lian Qian Cao, Lizzy-Run-Up-The-Hedge, Nepeta Hederacea, Robin-Run-In-The-Hedge, Tun-Hoof, Turnhoof.   Appearance: Ground Ivy leaves are heart shaped, opposite, scalloped, and dark green, sometimes tinted purple. The main root is thick and matted it sends out [...]

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