How to Make Rose Hip Jelly
Read more: This recipe originally appeared in "Take a Walk in the Wild" by Lynn Cline…
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Tag: Desert Plants
A Guide to Ethical Foraging
ROBIN MOORE and Cebastien Rose share some of their Dryland Wilds harvesting guidelines. Know the plants! Be 100 percent sure of what you are harvesting before you eat it. Do a plant sensitivity test…
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Take a Walk in the Wild
TAKE A WALK IN ANY DIRECTION with a couple of skilled foragers, and a weed will never look the same again. Up a mountain trail, down a sandy arroyo, and even in your own backyard, it’s astonishing to…
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Botanists Strive to Identify Every Plant at Gila Cliff Dwellings
Patrice Mutchnick inspects a leaf of dock (Rumex sp.) , a common riparian plant in Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument. AS WILLIAM NORRIS AND RUSS KLEINMAN drive through the pink rhyolite-lined…
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White Sands Power Plants
Illustration by Jameson Simpson. AS THE DUNES AT WHITE SANDS SHIFT, the environment itself changes from dune to dune, enabling distinctive communities of plants on and between each one. “Every step…
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Wildflower Heaven
I SLOW TO MAKE THE CURVE on the winding road to Aguirre Spring Campground, in the Organ Mountains, then brake to a rapid stop and laugh out loud. The thrill from suddenly discovering a slope blanketed…
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Meet the Penstemon Whisperer
Above: Larry Deaven. Photograph by Minesh Bacrania. LARRY DEAVEN HELPED FOUND helped found Los Alamos National Laboratory’s portion of the Human Genome Project, work that earned him the lab’s highest…
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