Wild Blessings

Exploring edible wild foods that grow around us

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  • Cooking
    • Autumn Olive Berry Jam
    • Berry Balm Crunch
    • Wild Black Bean Chocolate Brownies (GL)
    • Sweet and Sour Burdock roots
    • Burdock Root Mushrooms
    • Burdock Stems…Green beans!
    • Cattail Green Cobs
    • Wild Carrot Cake
    • Marinated Green Cattail Cobs
    • Cattail Chicken Cacciatorre
    • Cattail Shoot Tzaziki Sauce
    • Pickled Cattail Shoots w/ Yellow Dock Seed Crackers
    • Wild Chai
    • Bruschetta Rounds w/ Chickweed Pesto & Tomato
    • Coconut Oil Raw Brownies (gluten free)
    • Crabgrass Muffins
    • Dandelion Buds in a Bacon Dressing
    • Dandelion Flower Buds Marinated
    • Dandelion Fritters
    • Dandelion Italiano
    • Dandelion Pesto
    • Dandelion Rice Pilaf
    • Dandelion Root Coffee
    • Dandelion Root Coffee Cacao Mousse
    • Dandelion Salad
    • Dandelion Sesame
    • Egg Foo Young w/ Sheep Sorrel
    • Elderflower Fritters
    • Wild Fermented Veggies
    • Wild Greens and Bacon Stir Fry
    • Horehound Cough Drops
    • Wild Hummus
    • Wilted Green Sesame Saute
    • Wild Greens Tiropitas
    • Highbush Cranberry Meatloaf
    • Lambs Quarters: Spanakopita
    • Lambs Quarter Spread
    • Maple Butternut Squash Soup
    • Milkweed AuGratin
    • Milkweed Broccoli: flower buds
    • Hot & Sour Soup w/ Milkweed Bud Peas & Burdock Root
    • Milkweed Casserole
    • Italian Milkweed Pod Casserole
    • Milkweed Hot Pockets
    • Milkweed Pasta
    • Milkweed Shoots in Greek Kima Sauce
    • Oriental Venison & Milkweed Pods Stir Fry
    • Nettle Soup
    • Stinging Nettle Frittata
    • Iced Chicory Root Coffee w/ Raw Cream
    • Wild Pesto Pasta
    • Pine Needle Popsicles
    • Prickly Pear Jam or Syrup or Jelly…
    • Prickly Pear Salsa
    • Purslane Quinoa Salad
    • Purslane Tomato Salad
    • Sweet Pickled Purslane Stems
    • Oriental Wild Salad w/ Edible Flowers, Noodles & Oriental Dressing
    • June Wild Greek Foods Feast: MENU
    • NYC Style Chopped Wild Salad
    • Jasmine Rice w/ Red Clover Flowers
    • Wild Seed Crackers
    • Seed Fudge
    • Sorrel & Burdock stem Caponate
    • Sumac Rosemary Elderberry Caper Grilled Chicken
    • Sumac Berry Jello
    • Yellow Dock Crackers
    • Violet Scones
    • Wild Sauteed Stems for Flower Eggs
  • Plants
    • Burdock
    • Cattails
    • Chickweed
    • Dandelion
    • Evening Primrose
    • Fennel
    • Lambs Quarter
    • Milkweed
    • Mullein
    • Stinging Nettle
    • Purslane
    • Wintercress
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      • Anxiety Attacks
      • Colds and Flu
      • Constipation
      • Itchy Dogs
      • Joint Pain
      • Pink Eye
      • Poison Ivy Help
      • Psoriasis Natural Healing Protocol
      • Sinusitus
      • Spider Veins
      • Stiff Neck
  • Essential Oils
    • Getting Started with Young Living
    • Your Welcome Box from Holly
    • Young Living Walk Through for New Members
    • 8 Ways to Save Money With Young Living
    • My Husband Gets His Own Kit
    • 5 Day Health Reboot with Essential Oils
    • Holly’s Daily Self Care Routine
    • Stay Well Using the Oils in Your Kit
    • Get Well in a Hurry – How to be an Aromatic Warrior
    • How & Why Oils Work
    • The Thieves Class 102
    • Cancer Prevention & Oils
    • Pain and Natural Solutions
    • Funk Free Living – Friday Night Facebook Live
    • Four Reasons Why Essential Oils May Not Work For You
    • Happy Hormones With Essential Oils
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    • Everything is Spiritual
    • Jesus for Thinking People
    • A Homeless Man Changes History
    • Matthew Visual Bible
    • What are the Odds?
    • Just a Good Teacher?
    • Karma or Grace?
    • Jesus and Peace
    • Jesus hates religion
    • Do you know Him?
    • Your Feet
    • My Foraging Prayer
    • From the Rising of the Sun
    • A Plant Analogy to Sin
    • Atheism
  • January 18, 2021

Learn About Wild Edible Plants

This is the place where you can learn to enjoy nature and experience the nourishing power of wildly nutritious foods growing around you for free.

Latest Posts

Wild Blessings Video of Adventures

A year of surfing nature’s wave, eating wild, learning, teaching, playing, loving one another, reclaiming once common sense, and delighting in Creation and the One who made it all.  I created this video as my gift to my Wild Blessings students in 2018 and hope to compile one from the many wild adventures since… but […]

Befriending Plants: Magnificent Mullein

I am a connector!  Introducing others to our Creator’s world of plant wonders is my passion. The common Mullein is anything but mundane, it looms as a GIANT in the green world and is one of my favorites. Each of my Befriending Plants classes begins with a personal question related to the plant we would […]

Oils in the Life of Jesus Christ: April 2, 2021

Jesus Christ, who claimed to be the Messiah, was referred to as “the Anointed One”. Why was he given that title? How can we know if what he claimed is true?  Join me April 2, 2021 to investigate the claims of the one called “the Christ.” This could forever change your understanding of who Jesus […]

Wild Blessing’s Final Fling – Plantasia

Nature’s wave has retreated into the earth, silenced by the snow and ice but still very much alive in it’s apparent slumber. Leaves danced to the forest floor for their final curtain call and the cold frosts forced the energy back into the roots…stored for reawakening and the joy of Spring. As I type this […]

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About Wild Blessings

Welcome to my blog. My name is Holly Drake and I love to study, teach, and talk about wild foods. I live in the beautiful Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina where I explore the beauty of God's creation to learn as much as I can about wild foods that are available to us for free. Read More…

Recent Posts

  • Wild Blessings Video of Adventures
  • Befriending Plants: Magnificent Mullein
  • Oils in the Life of Jesus Christ: April 2, 2021
  • Wild Blessing’s Final Fling – Plantasia
  • Thank God for Goldenrod
  • Curses and Blessings…BURdock
  • Befriending Plants…Heal All
  • Wild Shopping Tips
  • Foraging in April
  • The Passing of a Pioneer, Linda Runyon
  • Forage to Feast with Marc Williams
  • A Dandelion Celebration
  • Tapping Maples
  • My Facebook Confession
  • Pine is Fine
  • Paleo Wild and Free
  • A Personal Hero, Linda Runyon
  • Spring Fling March 31
  • Wild Food Lunch w/ Friends
  • Why Eat Wild Foods
  • Sean Croxton Goes Wild
  • Wild Fermentation 101
  • Wild Times Remembered
  • Forest Fairies
  • Holly’s Wild Shopping Guide
  • Wild Stew w/ Beech Nuts
  • Wild Fried Wontons
  • From Forage to Feast
  • The MAGIC of Stone Soup
  • Wild Woman, Linda Runyon Eats the Trees!
  • Italian Wild Foods Feast Fun
  • More Cattail Capers
  • Evening Primrose
  • My Wild Refrigerator & Tips on Drying
  • Witches Shoelaces, Devils Guts…. A Scarey Plant
  • Throw Me in That Milkweed Patch!
  • Spreading the ‘Wild Fire’
  • Score! Cattail Green Cobs
  • Obeying the Blackberries
  • Shopping for Free
  • From the Rising of the SUN
  • Reclaiming the Dawn
  • Greek Wild Dinner Review!
  • Foraging for Flowers
  • Wildly Yummy Egg Rolls
  • Wild ID Bags
  • Lambsquarter: Chenopodium album
  • Foraging Woes
  • Shopping for Mullein & Peppermint
  • Singing in the Rain!
  • My Fermenting Frenzy
  • My Wild Lunch
  • Spearmint and Red Clover Blossoms
  • 111 Milkweed Shoots, 37 Burdock Roots…
  • Learning from One of the Best!
  • Milkweed Shoots & Violets
  • Eating Wild ALL the Time
  • Stinging Nettles SCORE!
  • Cattail Shoots
  • Digging Spring Roots
  • Japanese Knotweed Berry Jam
  • Lost in Wonderland
  • Foraging…The Price is Right! A Perfect Day
  • Asian Wild Food Feast

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  • Wild Blessings Video of Adventures January 11, 2021
  • Befriending Plants: Magnificent Mullein December 31, 2020

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