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Birch has been used for food, drink, craft and traditional herbal practice. Explore sap, leaves, bark, betulin and respectful seasonal harvesting.
Dandelion is leaf, flower, root, food, bitter flavour and traditional herb. Explore what is edible, what is studied, and where the evidence remains limited.
Perga is pollen stored in honeycomb and transformed by microbial and enzymatic activity. Fermentation, it turns out, was never a human invention.
Gently sour, faintly sweet and lightly fizzy: how to make a kvass-style oat ferment at home, and how to tell a good one from a bad one.
Fruit macerated in honey is one of the oldest ideas in the kitchen. Here's what honey really does, what it doesn't, and how to do it safely today.