The Walnut is the supreme tree for food and herb. The wild raspberry likes the walnut tree, the grape likes the walnut tree, echinacea flowers like the walnut trees, comfrey plants like the walnut tree. Golden rod flowers like the walnut and these things all follow the walnut trees, while other fruits/vegetables don't like the walnut tree.



I conclude the wild raspberry the most potent natural fruit, the Grape the best eating, easiet to raise and care for and very productive fruit man can grow in my climate. The walnut tree the best tree for health because the entire tree can be used and has many properties.



So the garden is getting plowed and rows of walnut trees planted, what doesn't grow with walnut trees can grow somewhere else. I will take the grape over all fruits when you consider how productive and easy it is . If I had to, I am sure I could live well on grapes and Black-Walnut s.



mh

A while back in Urbana, Ohio, a flour making plant "blew" up. They make flour from trash trees to be used by manufactuers of such things as cakes, etc...They also produce those white pills called asprins.



A guy we know that ran that plant, is in N.Y. state, seems their plant up there, burned for 11 days and he is helping them rebuild it.



Naturally you can't just grind up trash wood and turn into cake flour and pills without some use of chemicals and those chemicals probably are what burned so long and causes the explosions.



The companies must be so wealthy and so well connected with the local governments, when they blow up, they simply rebuild with no one complaining. I remember at the factory I worked at it was the last Aluminun Powder Making company in the USA of its kind, the forman had a picture of the last factory in Texas that when it blew up, the aluminum took the building into the air with it at such high tempatures, all that was left was a black hole in the ground, the factory and ever who was in it all vaporized.



So basically most all humans have grown up on products they thought had "wheat" flour in them, but many such cheap snack foods often are made with wood fiber. The wood is cheaper than wheat.



It is a fact, modern day manufactuers feed humans materials that will kill cows and pigs, so the pigs/animals get better grains than are used for humans. The animals will die when they don't get enough minerals, but that is fine for humans, that way the hospital rooms keep full.



MH

Our Concord grape vines have alot of grapes this year. In TN they told us 85% of their grapes got hit by the cold and were lost. We had the same sever cold weather and the apple and peach trees all have nothing; but the grapes suffered nothing and are doing geat.



I have experimented several times now and when you eat these grapes straight from the vine unwashed, whatever was in your colon is coming out FAST! Then with in a few hours, out comes the grapes! I mean in 3-4 hours the grapes you ate, can be OUT!



Grape juice you buy in the store does not have such a strong effect. Eating the LIVE grape has to be one o the most benificial fruits on the planet and maybe why they are mentioned so much in the Bible. The imported grapes from the lands near the equator can be HUGE and truly the lands designed for humans to live on. But once these grapes are picked/sprayed ad shipped, you can eat a handful and not experience this effect near as strongly as eating direct from the vine.



The friendly bacteria along with a few small spiders/bugs etc. are what we are designed to NEED and to eat direct is God's plan for man and NEVER store food for more than one day ever. (manna story). Just as the old doctors stated that man should never keep his food more than 12 hours and the natural man no long longer than 8 hours; I believe 100% that if we ate raw wild fruits ONLY, our colon would be small and firm and our lifespan into the hundreds of years. Food being the cause of all diseases, we would rarely experience a sickness. Just as wild animals do not experince sicknesses.



The stupid thing is, all wild fruits normally taste GREAT! The junk we eat that kills us doesn't taste great, so we cover it with seasonings/sugar until we can tolerate it. We all know how long we can live on wrong foods: maybe 70 years, but who knows how long we would live if we only ate as God instructed us to? Few in the civilized world has a clue. We work hard to go to the box, the human body is tough and takes years of poisons to kill it. Look at how many drugs a person can consume before the body (liver) dies.



MH

Goldenrod Honey

Today I was able to obtain17 gallons of Dark Goldenrod Honey! A Honey that is good for the kidneys!



MH

I dropped my jugs off tonight down the road since I saw them firing up the trough. They said if all goes well, they hope to cook 1,500 gallons of tree water tonight..



I ordered 100 gallons of finished product, that means they will collect 5,000 gallons of tree water just for me and condense that down to 100 gallons of maple syrup.



That is a tremendous amount of work.



They have maybe 30 cords of wood stacked all around the maple syrup shed and they will burn all that wood in just a week or two.



When you consider how much work it takes to make 1 gallon of maple syrup, you then know why you don't see factories; there is no $$$$ to be made for the amount of labor used. These people do it always as a hobby and love of the art more than making a living off of it.



The local guy makes 3-5 hundred gallons yearly.



Trevor age 4 has 1 favorite drink:

a shot of maple syrup in a glass with some distilled water added. he ask for this almost daily. He is drinking the finest "concentrated" minerals available. One step better would be to drink direct from the tree.



MH

This is turning out to be a fairly good year of the wild woods sponge mushrooms. The boys enjoy finding these, so each day I have been eating large portions of these. They never have made me sick, but I know many people eventually stop eating them because one time they will throw up or have diareah, etc.... I believe it is because they cook them in grease or some other method that makes them harder to digest. The mushrooms are best eaten with no other foods; usually they are fried in butter, even though they can be eaten raw.



I assume they provide a source of rare food, because they can grow over night and not like common garden/farm foods. The largest I have ever found is 16 inches tall. Plenty of 12 inch tall mushrooms can be found, with the common mushroom being 2-4 inches tall.



Most outdoor-types enjoy finding the mushrooms even if they don't eat them. The American Mushroom is considered valuable to some people who will pay big $$$ for them. Some reasturants will pay for each mushroom by the piece or by the pound. Some stores sell the dried mushroom for big $$$ by the ounce.



Most of all they are fun to hunt for and grow best 3 weeks out of the year. This year has been better than the past 4-5 years. Many years ago I could find over 1,000 mushrooms per day, while some years you may barely find 200 for the season.



MH

I like Olive Oil, it must be cold pressed, otherwise you risk buying a "blend" of oils and often a blend from 5 differant countries, which shows it truly is a commercial product if it ends up in such a factory.



I have noticed this:

cold pressed

first cold pressed



With such companies from Europe, you have to read their bottles well.



California no doubt has the best olive oil on earth simple because they seem to have the longest history in trying to make a "pure" product bottled in glass and not a mass product bottled in metal cans that seems so common with the European brands sent to the USA.



The first cold pressed, I like. May also say "hand" picked choice olives and one of the few brands I have ever seen marked "first", while cold pressed could mean second pressed very easily!



The first cold pressed can also easily cost 25% more than normal cold pressed olive oil.



Olive oil is still a very cheap source of food for humans...very cheap when you consider the health value.



I like how so many cold pressed tree fruit/nut oils are showing up on the world markets...some can cost over $100.00 per gallon, but I am most impressed with the many differant "colors" of these oils and how yummy they can taste....



COLOR is so important.

MH

We buy oranges direct from the Florida Truck around the first week of January! I am still juicing these fresh oranges and have at least 10 cases left. I do believe you get less juice as they get older, but as they age, the juice becomes sweeter. One thing I have noticed over the years, with each box, ONLY ONE orange rots/molds while all the other oranges seem Immune. I have always seen this strange but it must follow some law of Nature.



I also find it amazing that the oranges store well until we have warm days of Spring that allow the oranges to warm up through the night, once that happens then they will spoil unless laid out to dry. Allowed to dry they seem to preserve themselves extremely well.



I have drunk an average of 1 quart of fresh juice for the past 3 months. On average I get about 5 quarts of juice per box and each box cost $18.50, so it is expensive juice, but superior to anything in a store I beleive. The other night the boys were playing hard and they drank the juice of 1 entire box of oranges.



The orange is a special tree fruit with the most impressive medical history on earth! It went down in history with the 100% cure rate, something no billion dollar drug/hospital could ever boast of.



MH

For the past 3 months WHOLE FOODS has not had any frozen concentrate organic juices that don't have citric acid and other crap added making them worthless for the high price asked.



Few of their bottles organic juices are not poisoned, still on top of the heap is LAKEWOOOD, but you have to watch some of their blends, if the juice is blended then it probably has crap added, but most of their pure juices are great.



You won't find many juices that are not toxic in the common stores, at the very most, you may find orange juice that claims it has no additives, but otherwise most juice is from concentrate using city water and added citric acid and worse making it crap.



Children need fruit and fruit juices to drink. Trevor is almost age 4 and if you give anything but fruit juice at home, he will complain unti,he gets juice. As children get perverted with commercial foods, they eventually can tolerate and even eventually like the toxic drinks.



MH

For us, the first Peach Tree is ripe! I have maybe 5-6 peach trees and it seems each is a little differant and all ripen at differant times. The bugs were slurping up the peaches so it meant they were well RIPE so I went down and picked a large box of them and used a handfull in the vitamixer with ice cubes for a wonderful drink the entire family loved.



MH

There is one butter worth having. Springtime butter from a fresh Amish raised cow is something Kings would fight for. The butter is BRIGHT ORANGE, brighter than a new school bus. The spring grass is full of vitamin A and it shows in real raw butter made with real salt.



The Amish make this now and it only last about a month. I buy 10# each time, it melts in your mouth. This type of Vitamin A is used by the body and does wonders. There is nothing better for the eyes. I do not need my glasses of 35 years now and this is what is suppose to happen when you can get a usable Vitamin A. If I was smart enough to eat grass and allot of it, it would even be better yet.



The butter like all raw dairy needs to be eaten on an empty stomach and not an acid stomach. A sick person can not take dairy in any form and do well.



Make friends with a old fashioned small farmer that makes things like these and maybe they will share such a treat.



Many Blessings,

The BAREFOOT Herbalist