Know Your Water — Heavy Metals
Heavy metals in drinking water are not a single problem. They come from different sources, affect different organ systems, and […]
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Know Your Water — Chlorine & Chloramine
Chlorine is added to municipal water systems to kill pathogens — bacteria, viruses, and parasites that would otherwise make tap
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Know Your Water — Ground Contamination
Most people think of water contamination as something that happens somewhere else — to communities near factories, to cities with
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Know Your Water — Fluoride
Water fluoridation has been a standard practice in American municipal water systems since 1945. It is presented as an uncontroversial
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Know Your Water —PFAS
There is a category of synthetic chemicals that has been in widespread industrial and consumer use since the 1940s. They
HERBAL REMEDIES
LEMON BALM: Tea, Tonics & Tinctures
Lemon balm is the herb you plant once and spend the rest of your life trying to contain. It spreads
FUNGAL SPECIMENS
VERPA (Verpa bohemica and V. conica)
The Peckerheads Nobody Wants Let me be direct: Verpa are the mushrooms that disappoint morel hunters. You’re scanning the forest
FUNGAL SPECIMENS
HALF-FREE MORELS (Morchella punctipes) (syn. M. semilibera)
The Misunderstood Middle Child Half-Free Morels are the mushrooms nobody’s excited about. They’re technically morels. They’re technically edible. But they’re
POISON INDEX
FALSE MORELS (Gyromitra species)
The Brain Mushrooms ⚠️ TOXICITY LEVEL: POTENTIALLY FATAL – Contains gyromitrin (rocket fuel precursor), can cause liver failure Here’s the
FUNGAL SPECIMENS
MORELS (Morchella species)
The Honeycomb Treasure If there’s one wild food that turns otherwise reasonable people into secretive, obsessive treasure hunters, it’s morels.