by Dan Riegler | Sep 6, 2014 | Apothecary, DIY & Recipes, Harvest to Table
Harvest and make medicine from local and organically grown Calendula flowers at the Apothecary’s Garden this Sunday Calendula is likely one of the best known, easiest to grow and use medicinal herbs in the Western world. With a strong affinity for healing the...
by Dan Riegler | Feb 7, 2014 | Harvest to Table
I often refer to “Under the Willows”. I keep a link to it at the bottom of my blog with other favourite and meaningful places. Under the Willows is a summer program for children at risk in Hamilton. Earlier this winter, as we do every season, we closed the...
by Dan Riegler | Dec 15, 2013 | Apothecary, Harvest to Table, Wildcrafting
Winter Wow, Spicing up the season with Wild Ginger, Asarum Canadense Wild Ginger, or, Asarum Canadense, is a wild growing forest herb native to eastern north America from Quebec and Nova Scotia, down to Georgia and Tennessee. As a culinary spice, Wild Ginger...
by Dan Riegler | Nov 3, 2013 | Frankincense, Harvest to Table, Wildcrafting
That predictable seasonal shift from garden and woods, to study and laboratory progresses like clockwork. A lot has been going on in the study/lab the past few weeks. Planting, growing, harvesting and hunting lead to new materials for extractions, tinctures and...
by Dan Riegler | Oct 24, 2013 | Harvest to Table, Wildcrafting
To Blewits and Beyond, the last Wild Mushroom Hunt What a pleasant surprise!! Last Saturday’s Wild mushroom hunt was a wonderful success with a great turn out, including visitors from Delhi, Selkirk, and Hamilton! Though this time around we didn’t...
by Dan Riegler | Aug 17, 2013 | Apothecary, DIY & Recipes, DIY & Recipes, Harvest to Table, Wildcrafting
Homemade Elderberry Wine is, without a doubt, the most refined, distinguished and classic wildcrafted wine I have ever made. I would love to show you how it is done. Now is the time. The Elderberries are starting to ripen and are perfect for making Elderberry wine,...
by Dan Riegler | Jul 18, 2013 | Apothecary, DIY & Recipes, DIY & Recipes, Harvest to Table, Wildcrafting
I know I do go on about what a bountiful year it is this time round. It is true though. I,m fairly certain I am not the only one to notice that the wild fruit are begging for a bowl or blanket under their branches,and that one literally stumbles over wild...
by Dan Riegler | Jul 5, 2013 | Harvest to Table, Wildcrafting
For Lisa Well folks it is official, this is the year of the bountiful cornucopia, the horn of plenty in Southern Ontario. The year of abundance that every wildcrafter, harvester in the wild, dreams about. With all the rain and sun and rain and sun and rain and...
by Dan Riegler | Jul 5, 2013 | Harvest to Table, Wildcrafting
Wild Mushroom Hunt- a Father Son Moment I have been a single father, for, well feels like, Forever. In reality only for this last incarnation the past 2 decades. There was one incarnation where I was a sculptor, then I did an incarnation as a craftsman, then, when I...
by Dan Riegler | Jun 20, 2013 | Astrodynamics, DIY & Recipes, Harvest to Table, Wildcrafting
Wild Ginger – Asarum Canadense,Ontario Since I posted my recipe for candied wild Ginger made from dry wild Ginger, I have been itching to make the “from fresh” version. I had to be patient, waiting till it had finished flowering and seeding itself,...
by Dan Riegler | Jun 18, 2013 | Apothecary, DIY & Recipes, DIY & Recipes, Harvest to Table, Wildcrafting
Well, finally, after what seems like months of babying, nurturing and feeding my dandelion wine during its primary fermentation, stretching it out for many weeks more than it is usually called for, I have given it its final racking and taken it down to the cool...
by Dan Riegler | Jun 9, 2013 | Harvest to Table, Herbal Remedies, Wildcrafting
Angelica Archangelica. There was no waffling or indecision when whoever it was, came up with the name for this stately and aromatic plant, Angelica Archangelica. Ruled by the Sun, Angelica is a fragrant, medicinal and culinary delight in all its parts. Medicinally it...
