Outstanding American Gardens

 

borrow online at archive.org

borrow at archive.org

purchase at Amazon

search eBay

Native American Ethnobotany

 

Indian Herbalogy of North America 1991

borrow and search online at archive.org

purchase at Amazon

A handbook of native American herbs 1992

borrow and search online at archive.org

purchase at Amazon

by Alma R Hutchens

Native American Ethnobotany

borrow and search online at archive.org

by Moerman, Daniel E 1998

purchase at Amazon

How Indians Use Wild Plants for Food, Medicine and Crafts

borrow and search online at archive.org

by Frances Densmore 1974

purchase at Amazon

*see my post about online ethnobotany databases

Plant ID Apps

 I found a really good Youtube video where a guy really puts the plant ID Apps to the test.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB8IqWl6CJE

He get's right into it so rather than spill his findings here go on over there so he gets more views on his channel.

I'm probably going to run any questions through his two highest rating apps. To get two opinions and then just start from their.

I IDed a bush in my neighborhood with an app - it was Black Hawthorne. It was flowering at the time so I ran the photo in an app - it said Black Hawthorne and then I went back to check it and sure enough it has thorns.

Is it Blackberry or Dewberry?

 

We have a little blackberry type berry that grows on vines that trail across the ground and will trip you if not careful. People have told me it is called "Dewberry" and I think that is how you can identify it - it grows along the ground and is hard to see and will trip you if not careful.

Is it Blackberry or dewberry? LSU Ag Center

https://www.lsuagcenter.com/profiles/rbogren/articles/page1588861860462

“When you go to pick a dewberry and touch the fruit, usually you’re going to have red stains on your hands, while that won’t easily happen with cultivated blackberries like Brazos, Cheyenne or Apache,” Fontenot added.

Blackberry Growing Guide

https://www.lsuagcenter.com/articles/page1564515844169

Blackberry recipes

https://bit.ly/blackberryrecipes

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubus_allegheniensis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubus_fruticosus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewberry

Carrotist2

notes on Cottonwood

 inner bark can be fed to animals in a famine. goats like it

inner bark can be used as cordage

inner bark good tender

Kari Lee Knoke

https://www.facebook.com/reel/357720133439284

Meet BALM OF GILEAD: Tree Bud Medicine Extraordinaire (Video Lesson)

Dina Falconi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKGSrnefGr4

notes on quaking Aspen

 Aspen

rub hands on it get white dust

most widly distributed tree in North America

needs fire to send clones up

thicket

moose and elk habitat

deer

self prune

famine food

cambian eating in the spring when it is sweet

catkins eaten fresh, do not store well

flat petioles

burned and ashes used as salt prior to European contact

Willow family

sore throat (aspirin!)

worms (?)

Trembling or Quaking Aspen - Identification, Description, Edible and Medicinal Uses and More!

Okanagan Gardener and Forager

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TDgNE-LhPI

Tree Talk: Quaking Aspen

Forests for the Bay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7mssGdVhn0

Quaking Aspen and How to Harvest the Bark with Michael Pilarski "Skeeter"

Anna Pallotta

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EKBQxkJoeM

Birch and Aspen - Some Differences in the Bark

Far North Bushcraft And Survival

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVuT9G3llxo

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NPR

Wildfire & Forest Management

Update June 2024 - Idaho Department of Lands has a new wildfire alert system. Sign up here:

https://www.idl.idaho.gov/fire-management/alerts/

in addition, I belong to

North Idaho Fire Watch (Facebook group)

Private group

 ·

21.4K members

and I have the Watch Duty app on my phone. you can also follow online

https://app.watchduty.org/

Since wind is one of the most important factors in wildfire spread, I have Windy app on my phone (Watch Duty also has a winds layer) or access Windy on your computer ( I find it is easier to see on a computer screen)

https://www.windy.com/

I feel sad to say this but there is no cohesion between the different agencies that map forest fires, monitor air and water quality, help people manage forest plans, the list goes on. I did get a postcard in the mail for this new program for wildfire prevention. So let's pray this brings us together on that subject.

National Interagency Fire Center 36k

https://www.facebook.com/NIFCFire

https://www.nifc.gov/

map

https://inciweb.wildfire.gov/

"The Idaho Department of Lands, the USDA Forest Service and the Natural Resources Conservation Service are sharing staff, funding, and are joining with a governor-appointed advisory group to identify mutual priorities and cross-boundary forest management opportunities."

I'm not exactly sure what these people do. I have emailed our local coordinator and I will get back here with what I find out. May 2024

The Stewardship Program

https://www.idl.idaho.gov/about-forestry/assistance-for-forest-landowners/forest-stewardship-program/

Fire Effects Information System (FEIS)

Find fire effects and fire regime information by species common or scientific name:

https://www.feis-crs.org/feis/

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Division of Fire of the Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes' Forestry Department

Learn more through CSKT's Fire on the Land project

https://fwrconline.csktnrd.org/Fire/FireOnTheLand/

"Our forest management plan is a very unique blend of Western science and traditional ecological knowledge...Our plan is really interactive and ecosystem friendly as we see what the land needs. It's not a production forest. It's based on ecosystem balance." - Tony Incashola, Jr., Director of Forestry, Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k5-IVNUpP4

"That is why my elders—my father's father and beyond—that is why they would burn: for the animals and for the huckleberries and the medicines."John Peter Paul, Pend d’Oreille elder, circa 1999 - from Fire on the Land website
---------------------------------------------------wildfire news 87kI just noticed this group - worldwide wildfire news with 87k members. should be usefulhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/178993106345666/

2023 USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map and last frost dates for Sandpoint

 I never use this map, which has changed recently, I just do trial and error or I talk to someone at a plant nursery. But maybe knowing this map will come in handy some day...

2023 USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map

link

IDAHO

SANDPOINT hardiness zone is 6a and 6b

 History of the map

1990 USDA plant hardiness zones

2012 USDA plant hardiness zones

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Look up your current soil temp

https://www.greencastonline.com/tools/soil-temperature

Look up your first and last frost dates at The Old Farmer's Almanac

https://www.almanac.com/gardening/frostdates/zipcode/83864

look up your planting calendar

https://www.almanac.com/gardening/planting-calendar

Buy at Amazon (Affiliate link)

Local to me - Sandpoint, Idaho

May 18th may be the traditional last frost day, but things are changing. I don't know if that has changed. Folklore is people don't outdoor plant until snow is off Mt. Baldy.

I have heard people in Spokane plant out doors when snow is gone from Mt. Spokane

OTHER

I have heard the Amish plant outdoors when their plum trees blossom

I have heard if dandelions first bloom and daffodils - that means the soil has reached 55 and is ready to plant

Gardening Centers and local producers near me

 The Co-op keeps a list of local farms that sell direct to the public

https://www.coopgasandsupply.com/

click on "Local Producers List"

Garden Centers near me

All Seasons Garden and Floral

https://www.allseasonsgardenandfloral.com/

https://www.facebook.com/AllSeasonsGardenandFloral/

Greentree Naturals

website

https://www.facebook.com/GreentreeNaturals/

Ponderay Garden Center

https://www.ponderaygarden.com/about

Cedar Mountain Perennials

https://cedarmountainperennials.com/

Annie's Orchard in Clark Fork

https://www.anniesorchard.com/

Selkirk-Pend Oreille Food Summit

FARMERS MARKETS

Sandpoint Farmers Market

https://www.sandpointfarmersmarket.com/

https://www.facebook.com/sandpointfarmersmarket/

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https://www.belovedacresidaho.com/

Beloved Acres Co-Op is set up as a traditional buying club offering organic produce from small farms, organic dry goods, and organic/regeneratively farmed meats.

based in Oregon they have drops in Sandpoint and Bonners Ferry

https://www.azurestandard.com/

https://www.facebook.com/azurestandard

Beekeeping

Friendly Beekeeping for Beginners 119k

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2218791258180957/

Beekeeping Basics 324k

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1254979707869481/

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LOCAL to ME

Bonner County Beekeepers Network

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1949616375314325

* lots of supplies at the Co-op in Sandpoint

Herbalists without Borders

Herbalists without Borders

https://hwbglobal.org/

https://www.facebook.com/Herbalistswithoutborders/

https://www.instagram.com/herbalistswithoutborders/

https://www.youtube.com/c/HerbalistsWithoutBorders

The Inland Northwest/Spokane Chapter was established in late 2018 as a function of the Four Seasons Herbal Guild.

The Spokane Herbal Faire is our main fundraiser, all monies raised support HWB and local herbal events and classes.

https://www.fourseasonsguild.com/hwb

Native Plant Societies

list of Native Plant Societies

https://nanps.org/native-plant-societies/

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 Idaho Native Plant Society

https://idahonativeplants.org/

https://www.facebook.com/IdahoNativePlants/

https://www.instagram.com/idahonativeplantsociety/

Idaho Plants (not a society but they have 13k members)

https://www.facebook.com/groups/262442567460388/

Kinnikinnick Native Plant Society in Sandpoint, Idaho

https://www.nativeplantsociety.org/

https://www.facebook.com/NativePlantSociety/

https://www.youtube.com/@kinnikinnicknativeplantsoc1179/videos

North Idaho Native Plant Arboretum in Sandpoint, Idaho (managed by Kinnikinnick)

https://communityofgardens.si.edu/items/show/12224

Coeur d' Alene Tribe Natural Resources

https://www.facebook.com/cdatribe.naturalresources/

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Washington Native Plant Society

https://www.wnps.org/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/WashingtonNativePlants/

https://www.instagram.com/washingtonnativeplants/?hl=en

Oregon Native Plant Society

https://www.npsoregon.org/

https://www.facebook.com/NPSOregon

Montana Native Plant Society

https://mtnativeplants.org/

https://www.facebook.com/MTNativePlantSociety

     Bitterroot Salish tribe of Montana - Salish Plant Society

     https://www.facebook.com/salishplantsociety

     Snyel̓mn Project

     https://www.facebook.com/MissionCreekTrail/about

California Native Plant Society

https://www.cnps.org/

https://www.facebook.com/CaliforniaNativePlantSociety

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Kootenay Native Plant Society (Canada)

https://kootenaynativeplants.ca/

https://www.facebook.com/KootenayNativePlantSociety/

https://www.instagram.com/kootenay_native_plant_society/

FORAGING & Wildcrafting

 Does foraging need its own link list? 

Inland Northwest Foraging (Eastern Washington & North Idaho)

https://www.facebook.com/groups/427469761051349

Wild Food & Foraging Community

https://twitter.com/WildfoodLove

https://www.instagram.com/wildfoodlove

The Wild Food Assoc

https://twitter.com/wildfoodassoc

Cooking with Wild Plants & Fungi

https://www.facebook.com/groups/cookingwithwildfood/

WILDCRAFTED - Botanical Medicines & Foods Ethically Collected 5k

Identifying plants

Idaho Plants 12.1k members

https://www.facebook.com/groups/262442567460388/

Identifying Mushrooms - there are so many mushroom groups on FB. I will just list the ones with the most members

Mushroom Identification Page (worldwide) 261k members

https://www.facebook.com/groups/352940311570379/

Pacific Northwest Mushroom Identification Forum 63k members

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1752805481661732/

Green Roofing

 I want to install a green roof this summer.

Green Design Ideas - Plants, Living Walls, Indoor Gardens, Green Roofs 7.4K members

https://www.facebook.com/groups/GreenDesignIdeas/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_roof

https://greenroofs.org/

Herbalist and Ethnobotany Associations

 Herbalists without Borders

https://hwbglobal.org/

https://www.facebook.com/Herbalistswithoutborders

United Plant Savers - Medicinal Plant Conservation (Rosemary Gladstar)

For the research, education, and conservation of native medicinal plants, fungi, and their habitats.

https://unitedplantsavers.org/

https://www.facebook.com/unitedplantsavers

International Herb Symposium (Rosemary Gladstar)

https://www.internationalherbsymposium.com/

Sustainable Herb Program - American Botanical Council

https://sustainableherbsprogram.org/

Herbalists

https://www.facebook.com/groups/herbalistss/ 29.5k members

American Herbalist Guild

https://www.americanherbalistsguild.com/

https://www.facebook.com/americanherbalistsguild

Herbal Research Chapter of the American Herbalists Guild

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1900310653543876/

The Practical Herbalist

https://www.facebook.com/thepracticalherbalist

Herbal Medics: Field Medicine and Community Enrichment 30k members

https://www.facebook.com/groups/ahgherbalmedic

World Herbalists Sharing Web

https://www.facebook.com/groups/herbalistsweb/

Wild Medicine Conference

https://www.wildmedicineconference.com/

Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies.

https://maps.org/

Society for Ethnobotany (formerly Economic Botany)

https://ethnobotany.org/

Herb Rally roundup of herb education

https://www.herbrally.com/

https://www.facebook.com/herbrally

https://www.instagram.com/herbrally *****

https://www.youtube.com/@HerbRally

Learning Herbs

https://learningherbs.com/

https://www.facebook.com/LearningHerbs

https://www.instagram.com/learningherbs/?hl=en  *****

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Groups local to me

Idaho Herbalists

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1010954230264206

Idaho Native Plant Society

https://idahonativeplants.org/

https://www.facebook.com/IdahoNativePlants/

Four Season Herbal Guild - Spokane (works with Herbalists Without Borders)

https://www.fourseasonsguild.com/

https://www.facebook.com/FourSeasonsHerbalGuild

The guild sponsors the annual herbal faire as a way of fundraising for their work with Herbalists without Borders

Northwest Herbal Fair

https://www.nwherbalfair.com/

https://www.facebook.com/NWHerbalFair

associated with:

Michael Pilarski "Skeeter" Friends of the Trees Botanicals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EKBQxkJoeM

https://friendsofthetreesbotanicals.com/

Podcasts

Real Herbalism

Herb Rally

Herb Mentor by Learning Herbs

Permaculture?, homesteading?, sustainability?

 I'm trying to find a name for all the organic gardening, homesteading, fruit & nut tree growing, greenhouse, root cellaring interests I have so I can find my people. Well, it's all chaos right now. I guess "Permaculture" is close but it doesn't really cover everything. Hmmm. I think I will try to organize some resources and then figure it out later!

*Back in the day they used to be called "Back-to-the-Landers" but no one uses that term anymore.

Permaculture

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture

Permies - Permaculture & Homesteading Goofballs

https://permies.com/

Permaculture Practical Designs 78k members

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2491499617529478/  

Permaculture Association (UK)

https://www.permaculture.org.uk/

https://www.facebook.com/PermacultureAssociation

Women's International Permaculture Association

https://www.facebook.com/groups/womensinternationalpermacultureassociation/

One of my favorite permaculture farms

Matt Swarbrick and his wife Jenny decided to leave behind city life to “grow cabbages and children” on 80 acres of former quarry land at the North West corner of Wales

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul2kfTpZBw0

https://linktr.ee/henbant

https://www.youtube.com/@kirstendirksen

Permaculture - Local to me

Inland Northwest Permaculture

https://inlandnorthwestpermaculture.com/

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064342972968

Northeast Washington Permaculture Guild

https://www.facebook.com/NEWAPermGuild

Spokane Permaculture

https://www.facebook.com/SpokanePermaculture

Sustainability

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainability

Sustainable Herb Program - American Botanical Council

https://sustainableherbsprogram.org/

Small Farm, Sustainability & Homestead Living 204.5k members

https://www.facebook.com/groups/SmallFarm/

Small Acreage Sustainability & Homestead Living 87k members

https://www.facebook.com/groups/Smallacreage/

Sustainable Homes

Earthships

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthship

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_E._Reynolds

https://earthship.com/

Green homebuilding Ask the Experts

https://www.greenhomebuilding.com/ask_the_experts.htm

Natural Building Blog

https://naturalbuildingblog.com/

Kirsten Jacobsen

https://www.ecobuildlab.com/

https://linktr.ee/ecobuildlab

https://www.instagram.com/ecobuildlab

AirBnB

The Off Grid Guru

https://theoffgridguru.com/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd-H_38-JCLboV8bxiBGrrw

Tiny Homes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny-house_movement

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yurt

Homesteading

U.S. Homesteading for Beginners- Off the Grid, Canning, Gardening & more! 956k members (that's insane)

https://www.facebook.com/groups/homesteadingforbeginners/

Mary Jane's Farm

https://shop.maryjanesfarm.org/

https://www.farmgirlsisterhood.org/

Ladies Homestead Gathering

https://www.nlhg.org/

https://www.facebook.com/NLHGorg

there is a local group in Sandpoint but I don't have a link for them

North Idaho Off Grid & Homesteaders

https://www.facebook.com/groups/156632968250358

North Idaho Homesteaders 17.7k members

https://www.facebook.com/groups/877411085614776

Homesteaders United

https://homesteadersofamerica.com/home/

Stevens County HOMESTEADING CLASSIFIEDS 7.9k members

https://www.facebook.com/groups/227393401918497/

Homestead Rescue

https://www.discovery.com/shows/homestead-rescue

I do think that Mother Earth News covers a lot of my favorite topics

https://www.motherearthnews.com/

RICE

 While trying to find out the best way to preserve rice, I stumbled on this video, Which Rice Is The Healthiest? It's Not What You Think. by Dr. Liu. Her YouTube channel is Healthy Immune Doc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wCtPZ1bK9Y

She covers everything!

VIDEO TOPICS: ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ 00:00 Introduction 01:14 Glycemic Index 01:37 Lower The Glycemic Index of Rice 02:18 Amylose vs amylopectin 02:43 Retrogradation & resistant starch 02:59 Storage 03:37 Which Rice Is Healthier: Long or Short Grained? 04:56 Blood Sugar & Hemoglobin A1c 06:40 Diabetes & Rice 07:44 Insulin & Insulin Resistance 11:05 Lose weight with rice? 12:46 Fat 13:53 Which is Healthier: White or Brown Rice? 15:39 Beri Beri & White Rice 16:10 Vitamin B1, thiamine 17:48 Arsenic 18:25 Which Country Has the Highest Arsenic In Their Rice? 19:05 How To Remove Arsenic

Preserving

I'm still trying to find out the best way to preserve rice. I did not know that canning and preserving is a highly controversial right now! I did learn, for a fact, that you can't, so far, preserve brown rice because the oils in it will just make it go rancid quickly. Damn! If I find the best way to preserve rice I will post it here.

Rice: Types and Storage by RedRose Homestaead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8mf0EDIhLM

Dr Liu talks about this at 02:59 but here is more detailed information at Foodnetwork:

https://www.foodnetwork.com/healthyeats/healthy-tips/2020/04/is-it-safe-to-eat-leftover-rice