Fernwey Native and Edible

08/22/2023

My dear friend and one of the most well-spoken people I’ve ever met has released his second book today, Theological Musings Vol.1. If you’d like to read how scripture relates to environmental, political and social issues today, this is a must read! It would be quite eye opening for some folks. As a non-Christian, I found it Informative but not gushing with Christian sentiment like other books. In the book, Dillon also shares personal stories of the trauma he’s endured over the decades.

Dillon, you’re one of my heroes. Cheers to you, mate 🍻

06/13/2023

I’d like to gain greater knowledge of the insects and birds that benefit from native plants…I think this is a swamp milkweed leaf beetle (Labidomera) on a common milkweed.

06/10/2023

Manor Market in Millersville!

06/10/2023

The car is packed with plants, ready to head to Manor Market in Millersville! 20% plants here today! Come shop 9-1!

05/17/2023

Life is truly better when your Aronias germinate! Here, purple chokeberry and winterberry seedlings. Coming soon to a native habitat near you!

05/16/2023

04/24/2023

This “Earth Day/Week” we are contemplating on the idea of Earth as both organism and ecosystem that we are not separate from, that we evolved with. We aspire to live in reciprocity with Earth - surprisingly difficult in 2023 America!

We are Earth; why should we take from ourselves and not also tend and reciprocate?

04/05/2023

One of my favorites, rudbeckia laciniata, is really popping! It’s an especially tasty green, an important edible plant of the Cherokee people, and likely other indigenous tribes.

Rudbeckia is great sautéed in bacon fat 🤤

04/03/2023

I love Jacob’s ladder…

03/23/2023

Oh, please be the mertensia I sowed last year!! Aka, Virginia bluebells!!

03/18/2023

I’m always grateful when I have time to do any gardening these days. Especially when I can plant some of my kids favorite foods. Here we are planting peas, right on schedule!

03/14/2023

My partner and I had the privilege and pleasure of visiting east Texas for a very brief trip. We didn’t get to Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center but we did get to see the native flora surrounding a 20 year old gorge created by the great flood of 2002. Growing up in temperate forests, it has taken many years to appreciate scrubland and desert ecosystems. But Nature and native plants abound here! Plants which bear a vague familiarity or have a northern cousin. Plants I’ve heard of only in books (yaupon holly!). Plants with confusing common names which give way to questions about their taxonomical family and indigenous medicinal uses. So much yet to learn about these southern species but so little time as the growing/market season begins! Photos of Dakota mock vervain (Glandularia bipinnatifida), Allium drummondii, Texas persimmon, Senna roemeriana, and Diaperia prolifera.