Fall Time Wild Crafting Sumac
There are a few botanicals that I wild craft each fall. One is the staghorn sumac Rhus typhina . Countryside Magazine has a well written article for a thorough reference to read. This is one of my favorite magazines of all and I've learned more from this magazine than any other. This is for seasoned to newbie homesteaders and the BEST resource. Here in Minnesota we usually get a frost in the middle of September. This year it was a little earlier and here on our homestead where our land is lowland near the Mississippi we had two hard frost in a row...hmmm was that around the 15th I think. My parents living just outside of Brainerd, did not get a frost that week. Our first outing which was the week after the frost, was on the backroad to Cuyuna. We (Francine, myself and my youngest son Remington) collected a good amount for a healthy batch of tea, but many of the berries had started drying out already. A few days later, Rem and myself went back and turned off the main road we h...