Page 30 - OffGrid East Coast Special Edition 2016

Plants for Food and Medicine
ffBy Estelle Drisdale
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Using medicinal and wild edible plants is a great way to connect with the natural world while building your personal knowledge and self-reliance. Each issue, I will highlight a new plant for the homestead that can be grown in the garden or collected from the wild throughout the Maritimes. These profiles will feature a mix of cultivated, meadow, and forest plants that can be made into food and medicine and used help to restore nature’s balance.
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