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Learn How to Live with the Seasons

Grow Forage Cook Ferment inspires naturally minded people to live with the seasons, become more self sufficient, and protect their health. We offer simple and easy to understand guides and ideas for growing and foraging food and medicine; recipes and tutorials for cooking, fermenting, and preserving the harvest; and easy homemade herbal remedies and body care products.

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Gardening & Growing Top Posts

10 Reasons to Grow Oregano: a Highly Beneficial Herb

10 Reasons to Grow Sage for your Garden, Food, and Health

10 Reasons to Grow Mint (Without Fear)

How to Grow Elderberries in Your Backyard

10 Reasons to Grow Lemon Balm

6 Easy Backyard Permaculture Projects for Beginners

Foraging & Wildcrafting Top Posts

8 Easy to Identify Edible Mushrooms

What to Forage in Winter: 30+ Edible and Medicinal Plants and Fungi

Foraging Rose Hips & Wild Rose: Identification, Harvesting, & Uses

What to Forage in Spring: 20 Edible and Medicinal Plants and Fungi

purple dead nettle uses benefits look alike

Foraging for Purple Dead Nettle: an edible backyard weed

What to Forage in Fall: 30+ Edible and Medicinal Plants and Mushrooms

Cooking & Preserving Top Posts

Homemade Sourdough Tortillas

Lemon Lavender Shortbread Cookies

Kosher Dill Pickles: Canning Recipe

A jar of green tomato salsa verde next to a wood cutting board with a small white bowl filled with the green salsa, surrounded by limes, green tomatoes, and tortilla chips.

Green Tomato Salsa Verde: Canning Recipe

50+ Dandelion Recipes: Drinks, Sweets, Soap, Remedies + More!

The Easiest No Knead Sourdough Bread

Fermenting & Homebrewing Top Posts

How to Make a Ginger Bug for Wild Fermented Sodas

Fermented Honey Garlic

How to Make Hard Cider: Homebrew it!

How to Make a Gallon of Mead: A Simple Mead Recipe

Dandelion Mead Recipe (Dandelion Wine Made With Honey)

Fermented Cherry Tomatoes

Herbalism & Body Care Top Posts

A homemade deodorant stick in a cardboard container, on a cork circular board. Surrounded by a natural cloth napkin, sage leaves, and essential oils on a dark wood surface.

Homemade Deodorant with Lavender and Sage

How to Make and Use Dandelion Salve

How to Make Lemon Balm Tincture

Pine Needle Cough Syrup

How to Make Soap For Beginners + Calendula Soap Recipe

How to Make an Herbal Salve

Homestead & DIY Top Posts

12 Ways to Preserve Apples: Canning, Freezing, Drying + More!

15+ Ways to Preserve Zucchini: Freeze, Can, Ferment, and Dehydrate

How to Tap Trees and Make Syrup in Your Backyard

How to Make Beeswax Food Wraps

Do You Want to Live Off Grid?

How to Dehydrate Peppers for Food Storage

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Hello there! I’m Colleen.

I want to inspire you to live seasonally, become more self sufficient, and protect your health. I share information on foraging and wildcrafting, fermenting and preserving, cooking whole foods from scratch, permaculture gardening, and making herbal products. And that’s just the beginning! Learn more.