Sitting here exhausted, but very pleased with today's foraging run! The highlight of today's outing was actually catching harvest season for the wild strawberry for the first time in years! This weekend, we are at Schubert Centre for their summer market, then we are back at the Rutland Flea Market. We've purchased a 4ft folding table that we hope will be big enough to handle a tighter version of the layout we had at Lumby Days. The Lumby Days Indoor Craft Fair blew our socks off! The way the Lumby Days booth setup looked, we are becoming a veritable roving wildcrafted tea parlor with a side of medical insight to help people make choices that benefit their situations. Several times so far this spring, and several times at both major fairs this month, we've been asked if we have a storefront. As of yet, we do not, but we realize that if sales continue as they are, we will be in need of more processing space that can allow for a foodsafe kitchen, processing area, and expanded drying area so we can expand available quantities of the teas we offer, and potentially branch into other wildcrafted goods for sale. If you are reading this and you are in the Central Okanagan region, and if you believe you know someone who might help in some way, drop us a line with that information. https://naturalhealthgodsway.ca/2025/06/18/foraging-tea-sales-and-long-term-conundrum/

The firestorm that has erupted since Tulsi Gabbard testified on March 25, 2025, that WikiLeaks had released on X June 14th, 2025, that the Supreme Leader of Iran had suspended the nuclear bomb development back in 2003, and that it was the Intelligence Community that made that assessment. Gabbard’s March 25 testimony before the US Senate Intelligence Committee stating plainly: “The intelligence community continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon,” has exposed with a Neocon plot for another weapon of mass destruction, or the Intelligence Committee intentionally falsified information they handed to Tulsi to discredit her in hopes Trump would get rid of her. https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/iran/did-the-neocons-plot-to-get-rid-of-tulsi-cina-enters-iran-refuses-to-surrender/

THAT was a weekend! We were at Creative Chaos in Vernon over the weekend, a three-day massive craft fair bringing vendors from across Canada! We were able to reconnect with a herbalist who got us started on our wildcrafted herbal journey 10 years ago on Canada Day. That had to be the biggest highlight of the entire weekend, being able to say hi, then later thank him for sharing the tidbit of advice that sent us down this engaging, fun, lifetime of learning! We debuted a new product to the Ashtree Wildcrafting line: Sample Collections! We are occasionally asked if Ashtree Wildcrafting sells cups. We went thrift store crawling and found some beautiful English china! This past weekend was the last opportunity to register for the Thistle Workshop happening at the end of June. We have two registrants and looking forward to making a wild thistle version of artichoke dip, and making breaded thistle spears to eat it with! The next workshop coming up is July's Purslane Advanced Foraging Workshop on July 26th. We will learn about the benefits and uses of Purslane while gathering and then making a couple different dipping sauces. The deadline to register for the Purslane workshop has moved to July 12th! Catch us in person at Lumby Days Indoor Craft Fair June 14th and 15th, Schubert Centre craft fair June 28th, Fintry Manor July 19th, and in August, the garlic festival on the 10th and Fintry Manor on the 17th. Hope to see you at one of those events if you are in the area! Final note for today, due to various people at wellness fairs and even at craft fairs asking if we are 7th Day Adventist, no we are not. We are evangelical in our Christian faith. A basic Statement of Faith is now added to my website in two places, the Spiritual Wafare right-hand menu, and up under About in the main menu. https://naturalhealthgodsway.ca/2025/06/09/wildcrafted-tea-chat-or-is-that-a-coffee-chat-amazing-rendezvous-and-summer-outlook/

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WATCH: Why these pro-Palestinian Muslims REJECT anti-Israel protests A rare, respectful conversation reveals deep divides ... and a glimmer of hope for peace. https://www.rebelnews.com/these_muslims_reject_anti-israel_protests_here_s_why

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Time for an update! 2025 continues it's crazy trajectory and we've now hit full throttle! People continue to hint at me writing books about our wild food and medicine escapades. The textbook idea is taking shape, and I've decided the herbal compendium will be a trip through history as we follow herbal medicine as far back as we can. Currently, that promises to be a food and medicine list of at least 217 foods, herbs and spices, just under half the current number of plants in my nutrtional/medicinal wholefood database. Just today, someone hoped my foraging notebook had more in it than just the basics of how to forage for wild foods. So I may take parts of my "textbook" and build both a "herbs in the Central Okanagan" book, and either share in it or share in yet another book, the experiences we've had with using wild herbs as our pharmacy at home. ANNOUNCEMENT TO CENTRAL OKANAGANITES!!! The Advanced Foraging Workshop: Thistle Dip and Breaded Thistle spears, is coming up June 28th and we have two people already registered! The last day to register is June 7th. For those who like to pay in person, come see us at Booth 105 in the Vernon Rec Centre in the hallway between the Auditorium and the gym. If you want to catch us in person before Creative Chaos, come to see us at the Rutland Flea Market on June 1st. https://naturalhealthgodsway.ca/2025/05/25/book-fair-and-workshop-update/

peter a living soul, [2025-05-19 9:02 PM] The order has not been "stayed"; "CFIA says B.C. ostrich cull will go ahead despite regional district refusing to accept the carcasses"; your post is from May 16, this is from May 18 so is more recent information (and it was never stayed, there was hope because the regional district said it wouldn't accept the carcasses so this perhaps resulted in a bit of a delay but there was never a stay of the order ); https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/cfia-says-ostrich-cull-will-go-ahead-1.7538341 peter a living soul, [2025-05-19 9:02 PM] A court issues a stay of proceedings; a "stay" in a legal context means a temporary suspension or postponement of a court order, proceeding, or enforcement of a judgment. It essentially pauses the legal process until a specific event or condition occurs. There has been no stay of proceedings, just the regional district saying a few days ago that they wouldn't accept the carcasses at their district landfills unless further testing shows the birds are positive for the Avian flu, but their statement has no legal power to nullify the order the CFIA was granted.

This is why my infusions, whether they are oil, ACV or glycerine, are not officially sold on the website, and why the pre-order trailkit is sold with herb packets and instructions to make your own oils with the herb blends instead. On the one hand, its an opportunity for you learn how to do something new. On the other hand, there are people who don't have the time, or perhaps stay away from the stove for valid reasons, but would prefer the finished product sooner than later (a 4 to 6 week non-heated infusion time is more widely known). This pushes such products into black market or back door territory! https://www.rebelnews.com/health_canadas_crackdown_on_natural_health_products_the_battle_for_truehope_supplements

Carney’s Canada: hunger, hierarchy, and hopelessness! This is Carney’s Canada: a place where the middle class is vanishing, the poor are criminalized for trying to survive, and the ruling class builds digital walls around itself—while calling it “equity.” 🇨🇦#MarkCarneyCantBeTrusted🇨🇦 🇨🇦#NoMoreLiberalsAndNDP🇨🇦 🇨🇦#SayingTheQuietPartOutLoud🇨🇦 🇨🇦#JustSayNoMore🇨🇦 🇨🇦#CarneyLies🇨🇦 https://www.rebelnews.com/carney_s_canada_hunger_hierarchy_and_hopelessness