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August 7, 2025
We had a fantastic conversation today with AC and Isaac of Plant Cunning Podcast. Sanicle was...
July 16, 2025
We travelled to Poland in May of this year. These photos were taken from the exihibits at the...
July 13, 2025
BILBERRY (European blueberry) - VACCINIUM MYRTILLUS The Bilberry, whose Latin binomial is...
STAY TUNED FOR UPCOMING BLOG POSTS ON BERRY PICKING IN THE SHTETLS
July 10, 2025
We had a fantastic conversation with Ben and Jordan of The Jewish Diasporist podcast a couple of...
June 30, 2025
The Radhanites In Woven Roots, we mention the fabled and fabulous Radhanites, a community of...
June 16, 2025
The water carrier was a familiar figure in the shtetls. This statue, on a side street in Vilnius,...
June 8, 2025
You can find our latest essay at the wonderful Jewish Book Council's website: https://www...
May 27, 2025
While walking along the American River this late May afternoon, several familiar faces appeared....
May 17, 2025
Hello dear readers, June 3, Woven Roots's release date is almost here and we're really excited...
March 14, 2025
In the summer of 2022, over a year after our first book Ashkenazi Herbalism was published, my...
November 20, 2024
An expanded and broadened exploration of ancestral folk healing in The Pale of Settlement, Woven...
August 30, 2022
In the last few years, my mother told me that her father had a set of “bankes”, pronounced BAHN...
July 5, 2022
brusttea or breast tea = ברוסטטײ was one regional common name in the Pale for marshmallow ...
May 24, 2022
קראָפּעווע (kropeve) or בריִעכץ (briekhts - related to scalding) Has anyone else noticed the...
April 15, 2022
In German Jewish communities of the 18th and 19th centuries, seven weeks after Passover, Shavuot,...
April 2, 2022
Regina Lilientalowa was a Polish ethnographer, translator and journalist at the turn of the...
January 19, 2022
What are some of the remedies you associate with tea? Although we didn't really discuss it in...
January 6, 2022
When I was growing up back East in the 70s, oranges were not as ubiquitous as they are today,...
December 1, 2021
Tobias Cohn or Tobias Kohn (or in Hebrew, Toviyyah ha-Kohen) was a prominent Polish-Jewish...