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Deer Lake Lodge
Come learn foraging at one of the most beautiful resorts in the Houston area, Deer Lake Lodge & Spa!
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Spring Creek Greenway Nature Center Foraging Class
## Due to the flood damage from hurricane Harvey, Spring Creek Greenway Nature Center and its associated grounds are closed until further notice and all events there for the rest of 2017 are cancelled.
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Pioneer Day at Jesse H Jones Park
**When:** Nov. 14th, 2015 from 10:00am to 4:00pm
**Cost:** FREE and no registration necessary
**Where:** Jesse H. Jones Park and Nature Reserve, 20634 Kenswick Dr, Humble, TX 77338
This will be an informational table cover 12-15 common …
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Identification and Treatment of Poison Ivy
Poison Ivy (Toxicodendron radicans)
If you are a forager one of the first plants you need to be able to recognize is Poison …
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Fermenting Texas
> “*I drink and I know things.*”
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> -Tyrion Lannister
The use of wild plants to produce alcohol or add flavors to alcoholic …
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Annotated Trees, Shrubs, and Vines of the Texas Hill Country
Jan Wrede's Trees, Shrubs, and Vines of the Texas Hill Country is a great book for identifying common wild Texas plants. I've gone through it and identified which plants have edible or medicinal uses as well as which are toxic. These designations are listed below. Eventually the plants in this list will be linked to …
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Make a Worm Composter
Here be worms.
Give me a [Dremel tool](http://www.dremel.com/en-us/Pages/default.aspx) and I’ll change the world…or at least …
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Making Self-Watering Earth Buckets
A bold person can get an almost infinite supply of free 5-gallon buckets. Restaurants, bakeries, and fast food joints are particularly good places to ask for these. At worst they’ll say no, at best you’ll be needing a truck to get them all …
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Tips on Making Wild Teas
Many wild (and landscaping!) plants can be used to make flavorful and medicinal [teas](/?s=tea). However, getting the best results requires knowing a few tricks based on plant physiology. To understand the tea one must understand the plant.
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