We're off to a measured and thoughtful start to our Wild Edibles Challenge. But this journey is AS MUCH about enjoying (and eating!) the natural medicine in your local area as it is getting the post finished.

To quote @riverflows from her post about Bistort flowers, "I'm happy enough with the wild edibles I do find - they nourish me, and pull me closer to the earth".

What we DID learn from @abdulwajid1978 in his post about kunji, and from others, is that wild edibles have incredibly high nutrition levels. The kunji looks like baby fern fronds, no?

So, without further ago:

Week 1 Entries

Normally we only award prizes if there are more than 5 entries. We didn't quite manage to get there, but we HAVE decided to offer one prize this week of 15 Hive.

Drumroll.....

The winner of the Week 1 prize is @freemotherearth - congratulations!

Week 2 Entries Due MAY 23RD - READ BELOW TO FIND OUT HOW TO ENTER...

In the northern hemisphere, Spring is well under way for most of us - new plants burst into flower, and the sun might even be shining. In the southern hemisphere, I hear tell of mushrooms as people harvest fruit and hawthorn berries. Whilst many of us might still be in lockdown, lots of us can still go out for daily exercise and pick dandelions or forage for funghi. Even if we can't, we might be dreaming about it, or remembering a time when we harvested abundance from the wild earth and were thankful for it.

This challenge asks us to explore the topic WILD EDIBLES.

Here's a few ways you might do this:

Investigate a wild food in your local area, researching it's medicinal and nutritional benefits.
Harvest a wild food and follow an online recipe to make something new
Explore a new tea, a flavoured bread, a cordial, a rice dish made out of the wild edible - something you've never tried before
Create a three course meal with a selection of wild edibles
Map the wild edibles in your area, listing their health benefits

Of course, you don't have to choose any of the bullet points from this list - or you might choose a combination of them. And even if you CAN'T get out, you can still do research, write a story, explore an experience with a wild edible from the past or DREAM! xx

CHALLENGE RULES

We charge 100 LOTUS for each entry, which must be burnt to @null. This simply means you transfer 100 to @null as a transaction via your wallet on www.naturalmedicine.io (just log in with your keys as usual, or you can use hive engine). Please post a screenshot of your transaction as a comment on your post. This helps support the LOTUS economy - if you don't have the LOTUS, someone will burn it for you - simply pop into our Discord.

Post from www.naturalmedicine.io OR to the Natural Medicine community. This helps us SEE your post quickly for support.
Drop your link under this post.
Use any tags you like
Original content only.
Please source/reference your facts - no plagiarism
Minimum 500 words please!

PRIZES

We only award full offerings if there are at least 5 entries each week.

100 HIVE on offer for winning posts, spread out across the winners according to quality and judge's discretion. We may be able to offer more depending on the quality and amount of posts.
100 percent upvote from Natural Medicine for eligible posts
Resteem by our resteem account, @uplotus.

Remember excellent quality posts have a chance to be upvoted by Curie, OCD and other curation projects - so everyone's a winner!

Earn Instantly For Writing Good Natural Health Content

If you would like to earn LOTUS and HIVE rewards for sharing your natural health content on www.naturalmedicine.io, you can sign up for a free FREE account by emailing [email protected]. Read more about us on our Welcome Page. We support writers sharing about herbalism, TCM, yoga, meditation, vegan and other healthy diets, as well as earth centred practices such as foraging, permaculture and biodynamics.

Please consider delegating to help keep this collective going. For any questions, come ask in our friendly Discord here !

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Bistort, Kunji & Spreen - Natural Medicine's Wild Edibles Week 1 Prize Draw [Last Entries Due May 23rd]