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Foraging and wild harvesting tips, tutorials and recipes

Medicinal Yarrow First Aid Salve Montana Homesteader

Medicinal Yarrow First Aid Salve

A few years ago was the first time I learned about the amazing medicinal properties of yarrow. Since then, I harvest …

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How to make a homemade herb infused oil | Montana Homesteader

How to make herb infused oil

I learned how to make herb infused oil a number of years ago and it is a skill I don't know how I lived without! Years …

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Identifying and foraging for chokecherries | Montana Homesteader

Chokecherry Identification & Foraging

For the last month, I've been pining away for some wild chokecherry shrubs to harvest and make chokecherry jelly. Last …

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How to make dandelion tea, syrup and jelly | Montana Homesteader

Dandelion tea, jelly and syrup

We've gone dandelion crazy! Today we harvested a whole bunch of dandelion flowers and made dandelion tea, dandelion …

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The Wild Wisdom of Weeds- How to forage for 13 common weeds and over 100 recipes for food, medicine and self care | Montana Homesteader

The Wild Wisdom of Weeds

Do you eat weeds? This sounds like a pretty crazy question doesn't it? I'm here to tell you that weeds are not just for …

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Rose hips foraging and over 25 recipes for how to use them | Montana Homesteader

Rose Hips Foraging and 25+ Recipes

Fall and winter are the perfect times to go foraging for rose hips. During this time, the leaves have fallen off the …

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How to Gut and Clean a wild harvested fish and prepare it for eating | Montana Homesteader

How to Gut and Clean a Fish

I've been fishing since I was a little girl so I learned how to gut and clean a fish at a very young age. I learned how …

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How to identify, forage and use elderberry for juice and elderberry syrup. Montana Homesteader

Elderberry Foraging, Identification & Uses

So I have a new obsession: Elderberry foraging. Last weekend we attempted to go canoeing and fishing at a mountain lake …

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How to forage and preserve wild huckleberries in Rocky Mountains Montana Homesteader

Foraging and Preserving Huckleberries

Huckleberry season has arrived in Montana and we've been busy foraging and preserving huckleberries! Every year in late …

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Wild harvested Pineapple weed Tea also known as wild chamomile Montana Homesteader

Pineapple Weed Tea

Have you ever heard of a plant called Wild Chamomile? Let me introduce you to this amazing plant, otherwise known as …

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wild elderberries growing on a bush and jar of homemade elderberry syrup

How to Make Homemade Elderberry Syrup

Elderberry syrup is a natural daily supplement in our household as soon as cold and flu season starts. We try to use …

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How to Fillet a Fish

Are you ready to learn how to fillet a fish? Earlier this week I shared about my husband's recent ice fishing trip. He …

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