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		<title>A Botanist Tackles Spurge Nettle for Lunch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest issue of Palmetto, the quarterly journal of the Florida Native Plant Society, has an amusing and informative article by Francis Putz, Ph.D., about Cnidoscolus stimulosus, a much-despised plant for Floridians hiking about in sandals. Every part of this plant has protective needles save the well-hidden root, which can be as deep as three [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wild Fermentation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What a delight to spend an evening with Sandor Katz, and to hear all about his latest methods of fermenting foods. His 2003 book, Wild Fermentation, is a well-worn reference on my cookbook shelves, and I was so excited to actually have the opportunity to hear him talk.
His seminar drew a large audience for Gainesville, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winter Colds and Christmas Tummies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Tis the season to be under-the-weather.  Even here in sunny Florida, we succumb to winter colds (brought to us from our northern neighbors, or so we claim). This is also the time of year our tummies can churn with stress and anxiety or just plain eating too much of all the wrong foods.
Here are some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.myherbalnotebook.com/2009/12/winter-colds-and-christmas-tummies/</link>
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		<title>Herbs Without Patents</title>
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Traditional herbalists express concerns about the proclivity of pharmaceutical companies to patent medicines and plants that have been part of historical healing practices that are as old as human beings. This has been a controversial subject, and recently the government of India has taken steps to insure that these traditional practices remain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.myherbalnotebook.com/2009/08/herbs-without-patents/</link>
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		<title>Florida Springs in Peril</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent visit to the Silver Glen Springs in the Ocala National Forest, left me wondering once again at the obliviousness of human beings when it comes to our environment—the environment that keeps us alive. The air we breathe, the water we drink, the land on which we build our homes and cities, and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Cold Herbal Remedies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend called after he had just gotten over a miserable summer cold, and he asked me what my first line of defense would have been—for next time, he said. “Would you put together a little ‘cheat sheet’ for me? I know there must be stuff I could have taken right away to reduce the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spanish Needle Salad Anyone?</title>
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Bidens spp. are abundant “pest” weeds in Florida and indeed all over the world. There are more than 40 native species in the United States alone and over 230 worldwide. These weedy plants thrive in warm climates and have traditions of medicinal and edible use wherever they are found. The botanical name, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.myherbalnotebook.com/2009/05/spanish-needle-salad-anyone/</link>
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		<title>Spring Edible Plants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What a lovely walk Max and I had today! A little warm for early April, but there was a pleasant breeze and a clear blue sky. Lots of birds and butterflies. And plenty of snacks. Tasty asparagus tips (the leading ends of Smilax spp), delicious lavender dayflowers (Tradescantia ohiensis), and lemony sour wild sorrel leaves [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green Allies in the Garden</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How sweet to enter my new garden, beautifully designed by my husband, to find my favorite green allies and native
	
	New Garden at Flying Cactus
friends waiting for me in group right in the center of the growing space. We had mulched heavily at the beginning of the winter in hopes of smothering some of the grass [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uses of Partridge Pea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As everything is dry and brown here in north central Florida, I am missing the autumn fields full of partridge pea (Chamaecrista fasciculata) blossoms—bright yellow flowers on extensive branches of fernlike leaves. When a plant is abundant, I always wonder if it is native, and if it is, I know there must be uses for [...]]]></description>
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