Today I gather! Have you gathered anything wild or tame yet?

I grew chives in my window box one winter. If you have room for a window box, you could grow them. I love strawberries and cantaloupe. It's great that you frequent fruit stands. That's wonderful for local Farmers. I used to work at a Farmers' Market, can you tell?

Celts are island people by nature who have either cultivated the land or been to the sea to live. Native Americans love the land and nature. I found living in a city very difficult. I'm not Native American, buy my ancestors were mostly peasant farmers (except for a mercenary, a seaman, some miltary and a few religious people thrown in for variety. When I was working my butt off at college, I didn't mind. But if I had any time off, I wanted to be back with the land. Luckily, I'm Learning Disabled, so I had to work very hard at college and had very little time to notice. I'm really happy when I do things outdoors with the land.

I can tell! I hope I have the energy this year to plant some things. My depression gets in the way of things sometimes. No energy.

I discovered horse radish poking up this afternoon. Spring is here. :)

We used to have horse radish where I used to live. Now that's a challenging thing to process. They showed a horse radish processing plant. People used those air exchange gas masks. I would think so. Doing that all the time would burn out the lining in your nose and eyes.

Underneath the leaves, I found oregano and marjorum up, too.

Goodness, gracious, that's a lot of nettles!

I don't see any leaves on my raspberry bushes either. I do the picking and drying of leaves before the flowers. But I don't take all the leaves, just 1 out of 3 in large raspberry stands and 1/7 in small berry stands.

Really? This being my first year, I was just going to guess how much to take and probably would have taken not very much.. But thanks to your info, I know how many to pick. I have three different kinds of berry plants. wild black raspberry, wild blackberry and a hybrid red raspberry. Do you think it would be ok to mix them all, or to get the best flavor, keep them separate?

Actually writer, you probably know more than I do, since this is the year year for berry leaves for me. And now that I read about your blackberry leaves rotting, I will not mix them, just in case. I do have a question though. The only things I have dried before had stems, like mint and bee balm, but the berry leaves will not. When I dry the mint, I tie together the stems and hang them upside down in a cool dark place. What is the best way to dry berry leaves?

Daffodils are beautiful. Not edible that I know of, but make great arrangements. Not sure where you are in the USA. Alaska? The Canadian above you here is above most of the USA and harvesting.