May we all live and share in abundance

Resources for Resilience & Solidarity as we Navigate COVID19

Born and raised in North Carolina, Kim Calhoun joyfully shares
the time-honored healing tools of wild food, plant medicine, yoga, energy work, and massage with people of all ages.

AbunDance Healing Arts enacts a vision of our world where everyone has abundant opportunities for
vibrant health and a loving connection to themselves, others, and our living Earth.

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Dehydrator loaded up with weedy #yarden friends fo

Dehydrator loaded up with weedy #yarden friends for making #wild greens flakes (#yellowdock) and putting up for tea (#violet, who I also add to the flakes—think #superfood sprinkle on your fried egg, in your soup, over your popcorn).🌱 In previous years I’ve always utilized the fancy drying room of my car dashboard (with plants tucked into brown paper bags). Grateful to try out this dehydrator gift from a community friend.💚 There is SO MUCH #wildfood and medicine right now it’s hard to keep up with processing (#cleavers #tincture waiting for me and #sowthistle saute in the cue).🌱 May everyone have access to nourishing food and healing medicine!💚 #enoughforusall #wildfoodlove #plantmedicine #foraging #rewilding #givingthanks #sendinglove #Rumexcrispus #Violasororia

If you’ve ever wondered which of our many miracu

If you’ve ever wondered which of our many miraculous trees receives my fondest adoration of their unfurling springtime buds, here you go :-) Feel free to guess who (even to the species). #whatbeauty #sunsetinthewoods #rosybudscales #somanylayersinthere #somanybranchesinabud #treelove #spring #givingthanks

SPRING WILD FLOWER MARMALADE🌸 Everything about

SPRING WILD FLOWER MARMALADE🌸

Everything about #ediblewildflowers brings me joy: the gathering, preparing, and certainly the eating! This is a super simple #wildrecipe created with flowers who are abundant right now: #violet, #redbuds, and #wisteria (latin names in comments to help with ID). 💚

DIRECTIONS: Have fun #FORAGING flowers with #gratitude (see notes in comments for sustainability). Pick through your redbuds and remove any bark that’s attached to the clusters of flowers. It’s fine to leave the flower stems (#peduncle is a fancy word for them 🙂 Sometimes I will pull apart the larger wisteria flowers into smaller pieces. Living in the country with no chemicals sprayed in the #yarden, I do not wash the flowers.
WASH an organic orange then CUT the whole fruit into small pieces (peel included and has wonderful #VitaminC to add to the high C present in the flowers). MIX the edible wild flower blend with the chopped orange in about a 2 to 1 ratio (the flowers reduce when you stir). Drizzle mixture with enough honey (preferably local) to lightly coat all the beautiful parts with a few stirs of the spoon.
VIOLA! No need for cooking. STORE in a jar in the fridge and consume within a few days. ENJOY on toast, crackers, violet leaves, cheese, or just by the spoonful. Full of #goodiments, #phytonutrients, #antioxidants, #vitamins and #love for our #immunesystems. Thanks to @sarah.haggerty for sharing this recipe with me so many years ago!💚 #wildfoodlove #eattheweeds #treefood #sendinglove #tofolkswhocantbeoutside #tofrontlinefolksworking #tofolksfeelingsickandscared #inthistogether

As folks are finding comfort outside, I have a new

As folks are finding comfort outside, I have a new tune... Before you start mowing, check all the wild medicine that’s growing,
in your yarden, yeah, in your yarden 🙂 Before you start weeding, think about what’s good for the eating,
in your yarden, yeah ya’ll, in your yarden 🙂 Took a few minutes to harvest these #goodiments for myself and a neighbor: #yellowdock (aka #curlydock, Rumex crispus) and #chickweed (Stellaria media) from the #yarden, yeah, from our yarden 🙂 I’ll probably chop the yellow dock and add into some rice and beans (this green needs to be cooked in my opinion). Chickweed heading into soothing #teas, salads, pesto, and smoothies.🌱 It’s gotten hot here (NC Piedmont); in the 80s for several days. Our cool-loving chickweed is/will be bolting and too leggy to enjoy as premo food (you could still use for soup stocks, teas, or herbal compresses). #Gather now. Keeps in the fridge a few days or make extra pesto to freeze.

Check out my chickweed article and wild greens pesto recipe via the link in bio (under food access section). And be sure of identification dear ones! Let’s remember, there is enough for us all when we share our resources equitably💚 #inthistogether #foraging #wildfoodlove #plantmedicine

#physicaldistancing doesn’t apply to plant frien

#physicaldistancing doesn’t apply to plant friends 🌱 grateful to be staying connected to the woods, plants, and springs’ full on arrival even if i can’t get any internet living out here in the country. first #atamascolily of the year. (not for eatin’ even though they are in the same family as onions and garlic). thanks for your patience with digital communications. and hoping ya’ll can enjoy some deep breaths out of doors. 💚planty kim

While we will not be sharing #wildgreenspesto in p

While we will not be sharing #wildgreenspesto in person today and celebrating the #springequinox with a #wildwalk by donation as originally planned, you can find my recipe to create your own batch from your #yarden with positively identified #edibleweeds. Link in bio—scroll through the #resilience resource page under #access to food. 🌱

Eating nutrient dense wild greens boosts our immune system. As do these bright beautiful vitamin-C rich wild flowers from #violet (#Viola sororia) and #redbud (#Cercis canandensis) who are #abundant right now. 💚
#thereisenoughforusall #tomeetourtruestneeds #whenweshareequitably #eatyourweeds #wildedibleflowers #getyourgoodiments #givingthanks #weareallinthistogether

Dear ones, I’ve spent much of today’s #springe

Dear ones, I’ve spent much of today’s #springequinox compiling this resource page for #resilience and #solidarity as we co-navigate #covid19. There’s lots of links for #local #herbalists, #plantmedicine, #foodaccess, #foraging around #chathamcounty and more!💚 By no means comprehensive, and, definitely some #inspiration, #education, and #mutualaid! May it fuel our individual and #collectivecare! Link via bio (on instagram, click my face in the circle and the link will appear).💚 And of course I got out for an essential walk in the #woods! Look who blessed me with their #beauty! My first #lunamoth of the year!💚 #deepbreaths #mommaearthishealing #mayeveryonebesafeandhealthy #healthcareforallnow #ablueheronjustflewoverhead #andthebarredowlsarecalling

Who else is rocking #allium breath and armpits fro

Who else is rocking #allium breath and armpits from frequent consumption of #garlic and #onions in your food, #firecider, and other #immuneboosting #plantremedies?! In case you don’t have any fresh in your kitchen, good news: there’s an abundance of #wild and free #fieldgarlic (#Alliumvineale) in most #yardens or fields nearby. 💚

The leaves are a bit tough at this point to substitute for #chives but still make a great soup stock or immune boost infused in honey and/or vinegar then sipped/drizzled by the spoonful. The bulbs can be enjoyed similarly or as a cultivated garlic substitute. I’m making a fresh batch of #firecider with some right now (will send a recipe soon).💚 Pictured here: above and below ground parts of field garlic. Remember to be confident with your ID! Be sure the plant smells like onions/garlic/alliums! And don’t harvest where herbicides/pesticides sprayed.🌱 P.S. I will get that newsletter I promised with class updates and prevention resources out soon! Link to subscribe via bio. May you feel safe, healthy, and connected! Love, Planty Kim💚

#kitchenwisdom #wildfoodlove #plantmedicine #resilience #herbalprevention #weareallinthistogether #covid19