Ecology

How to harvest and process tea leaves from Ilex vomitoria Let’s talk about tea! Here is my favorite way of preparing Yaupon holly tea ~ green tea style. Yaup...

I’d like to take a moment to share the wild edible greens and other things I have most frequently harvested over the last few years day-to-day in Northeast F...

So, I tried to run away from the things I love most. In North Florida this week, quickly and all of the sudden, yaupon holly (Ilex vomitoria) put out visible...

I had mostly always heard that white oak (Quercus alba) is not a good bark for tanning. My guess is because it may be lower in tannins than the bark of other...