(Transcript from video)

Alinahh:

Okay, well I have a few things… more than a few….. but there are a few things I’m passionate about one of them is foraging. I like to call it original earth food or original earth garden food or original garden food rather than wild because it’s what we were given at the beginning of time.

One of the original garden foods was this one: chickweed, which is delicious. I eat it a lot; I make a lot of spring green salads with it.

One of my other passions is singing. In this last year I’ve been writing song I want to share. A song about this beautiful plant that I adore called chickweed and it’s other name is Stellaria.

I’ve been teaching this to the kids here in the Ecovillage and some of the young ones have really taken it up. It’s really fun to be walking with them and we’ll start singing it together. We’ll be skipping down the road singing the song. Here it goes..

Skipping down a path on a blue sky day
the sun shimmers down on my head. A…

See my friend chickweed on the edge of the field
I ask if I can harvest for a meal.

Stellaria your taste and charm reminds me I’m a creature so wild.
I place your tiny white flowers in the mouth of a fairy child

Yum!

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Comfrey

Chickweed

Violet

Burdock

Yarrow

Witch Hazel

Photos by Lee Warren.

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