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Ragāres: Forest gardening, Latvia
Echinacea purpurea flower with medicinal compounds.
The tea recipes are formulated according to medicinal properties within natural and folk medicine
traditions, such as “Echinacea vitamin tea,” which
includes 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 the harvest
season intensive and extended across much of the
year, as 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, and other
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
