July 1, 2025 Jeremy Foraging, Plants Wild Flavor: A Matter of “Taste” Picture iceberg lettuce-- the kind you find in a pile in your local produce department. Everybody knows what it looks like and how it tastes, how the outer leaves tend towards the soft and green, and how the inner leaves are crunchy and sometimes sweeter. | more
August 28, 2024 Jeremy Materia medica Stinky Bob (Geranium robertianum) BOTANICAL NAME: Germanium robertianum FAMILY: Geraniaceae (Geranium) COMMON NAME(S): Herb Robert, Stinky Bob, Death-Come-Quickly, Squinter-Pip, Crow's Foot, Poor Robin BOTANICAL DESCRIPTION: "It grows as a procumbent (prostrate or trailing) to erect annual or biennial plant, up to fifty centimetres high, producing small, pink, five-petalled flowers (8–14 mm in diameter) from April until the autumn. | more
August 2, 2024 Jeremy Materia medica Wild Lettuce (Lactuca virosa) Beads of dried latex on a L. virosa stem. (All images courtesy of the author unless otherwise indicated.) 1. | more
