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Ragāres: Forest gardening, Latvia
Echinacea purpurea flower with medicinal compounds.
recipes are designed based on medicinal properties, according to natural and folk medicine,
such as “Echinacea vitamin tea” with echinacea,
apple, apple tree leaves, black currant, blackberry, common nettle, purple coneflower, rosebay
willowherb and sea-buckthorn leaves. Everything
is picked and sorted by hand. The abundant diversity makes a stressful harvest season almost all
year around, Jānis explains.
The site is embraced by an outer, semi-wild sloping edge zone that is foraged for walnuts, rowan
berries, hazel bark for tea, maple sap etc.
Sid 13-14 nigra.
Sambucus
Jānis Vaivars shows trees being tapped for
“Wonderful to see a business take advan
of such a diversity of landscape resourc
especially in terms of woody species of
plants. As all market gardens, the labou
intensity, marketing efforts and constan
innovation is taxing for the owner and
Ragarès is a beautiful example of howw
plants can be either central or a valuab
complement to such an enterprise.”
- Anders Lindén
Fläderbär, Ragarès
