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flkr76

Fiddling Blue Billy and Em The End

flkr “OO cum wi meee.” Em said as she reached down and picked me up and carried me away like a baby. She was cuddling me and kissing me all over and making such funny sounds the whole time. Her...

6 comments    chickens billy panther
Bugs Bunny66

Top 5 Famous Rabbits and Bunnies of All Time

 Rabbits and Bunnies, we can’t help it, one look at those floppy ears and somehow we instantly fall in love with them. However, no matter how cute and furry they may be, they also seem to have a character...

0 comments    entertainment books cartoons
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Harvesting and Eating Dandelions

They grow everywhere or so it seems, you do not have to tend them, water them or feed them, all you need to do is appreciate them and harvest them. Then enjoy them as wine, tea, in a salad or deep fried as...

35 comments    food recipe eating
dandelion flower79

Medicinal Benefits of Dandelion

Scientific name: Taraxacum officinale Origin: Europe Part used: leaf and root Medicinal Properties: Cholagogue, diuretic, hepatic, lithotriptic, stomachic, alternative, astringent, galactagogue. ...

1 comment    health natural remedy herbal remedy
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Weird Recipes From Your Yard

This soup is served cold. You need a rose, preferably red or pink. It should still have lots of fragrance. You can't use roses that are hybrids. Gently peel away the rose petals one at a time. Cut away the...

2 comments    food recipes recipe
Brief visitor to the Spring menu65

How to Cook Poke Salad

Harvesting and cooking the most dangerous of wild foods -- poke sallet, the delicious springtime herb. No food like scary food.

0 comments    salad free food foraging
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Sassy Creek's Bunny Tales / Part 5-A

Chapter Twenty One At feast that evening, the siblings wondered how they could look the same to everyone. They shared a secret now so wonderful that surely it must show somehow, but no one noticed a thing,...

2 comments    children fun kids
Jew's Ear fungus71

Winter's Harvest

Winter is not usually a time of year that comes to mind when you think about foraging for wild foods but actually there are some excellent and nutritious plants and fungi readily available even though much of...

4 comments    healthy winter parsley
Our ticker - we have only one.      Credit: ebinstitute.com79

How to Lower Your Cholesterol and Triglycerides Without 'Lipitor' or...

Our ticker - we have only one. Credit: ebinstitute.com OK, I'm not picking on just Lipitor. Just dump 'them all' in the soap-box, er, basket. Let's examine some reasons why you may. And it is necessary...

15 comments    health how to heart
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Dandelion Leaf and Bacon Salad. Eat Your Weeds!

Forget about weeding your lawn - try eating your lawn! Great tasting dandelion leaves make a nice bitter salad leaf; great with a bacon vinaigrette!

1 comment    how to food recipe
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