W.Va. Book Festival Announces Featured Authors For 2024
West Virginia’s annual book festival celebrating national and regional authors will come to the Charleston Coliseum and Convention Center this October.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsTallow is rendered animal fat and has been used primarily in traditional food preparation — as an ingredient and as a cooking oil. In addition, tallow can be used in making soap, candles, healing salves, skin moisturizers and perfumes, as well as lubricants for wood, leather and metal working.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsHave you ever found a four leaf clover?Besides being lucky the clovers have many uses, here are just a few.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsThe Narrow-Leaved Leek, (Allium burdickii), while related to broad leaf ramps we enjoy every spring, is its own species all together and not a variation of Allium tricoccum. It’s a relative of the typical wild ramp, or leek, that people seek out this time of year as an eatable spring onion. We know very little about this wild onion.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsThe Trillium is an icon in Appalachia. Old timers of this region thought picking this delicate flower would bring rain.The ephemeral plant graces us with its beauty in the early spring before the leaves fully grow on the trees. When Trillium is in bloom and has a foothold on the side of a wooded hill, it can stop you in your tracks and make you take a moment to appreciate the amazing garden we live in.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsComfrey is a profound healer when it comes to open wounds.It has an constituent in it called allantoinAllantoin is also found in the milk of nursing mothers. It promotes cell-reproduction which is exactly what is needed for healing boo boos.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsKnowing what is edible in the wilderness can create a sense of security in our wild world. But what if you need to feed yourself in the dead of winter? What would you eat?
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