The beauty of spring can still be seen everywhere!
So we've been back from Costa Rica a while now... and still it seems not much has been done here at Dreamland Express but we've been hard at work the wholr time!!! And learning tons of new things.
I really love spring time, especially when it's still a little chilly and the sun is out. Seeing the change in the trees and observing the fast growing vegetation is really amazing to me.
What is also clear is that once you learn to identify a plant, it really sticks with you... just like with our alphabet, can you imagine ever dorgetting what the letter "Z" looks like or any other letter for that matter??? I'm sure a lot of people reading can relate.
Listening to Arthure Haines the other day, I found found one of the plants he had mentioned, the two-leaved toothwort. It realky does taste like horseradish, not as strong but it has something just like it.
I'm going to have to be on the lookout for wild rice at some point, though I'm not sure there is anything near by... hmmm maybe I could make it grow in our pond!
I've been getting into our "Wild Edibles"
These common blue violets are delicious, I went out and collectes a bunch of the leaves, some flowers, a bit of plantain leaves and of course a good handfull of dandelion leaves to make a salad... It was really good!!! Especially with a lemon, olive oil and mustard dressing. It was so good, we made the salad again for our guests 😁!
So yeah, I got to taste the dandelion flowers too... we made a tea. The first batch was a bit too bitter for everyone, but the second one and the third one were excellent!
I took the pettals off of about thirty dandelions, added a small handfull of violets, boiled some water, stired in honey, poured the sweet water into a jar with my flowers and let it sit for about 10 minutes.
There's something wonderfull aboit seeing our four and a half year old wanting to make this tea and seeing him come back into the trailer with a masson jar full of pretty yellow dandelions!
It's really a lot of fun being outside all the time and getting to know the wild! We only left the big city a year ago... and i don't miss it very much at all. I don't want it out of my life but I am much happier here in the forest now for sure.
Going back to this climate change thing, I really believe the best thing we can do is have an awareness to the harm we can do to our environment, though it may not change the course the planet has been on for quite some time, it will help you the individual. Instead of fighting for change, be the change you want to see, but more importantly be prepared to adapt to different environments. And this is something everyone can practice, you don't need to live in the woods to become adabtable to change, but you do need to have variety of abundance and scarcity.
Anyway, before I start ranting, I just wanted to say it's been a little cold and mostly rainy but as long as I can learn something new everyday, it'll be all good 😁!
We still need to fabricate quite a lot of things to be self reliant here... freedom doesn't come without work, but eventually we will be a lot more sustainable than we used to be.
I do hope it will get a little warmer soon... we're going to a festival this weekend!
Untill next time...
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