Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Strawberry

"Wild Strawberry" (Fragaria virginiana)

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2007 July 13

The wild strawberry is so small but tastes SO good.

The First Nation peoples ate these berries raw and sometimes mashed and dried them into cakes for winter stores. A tea was made of the leaves to ease diarrhea or to sooth sore throats.

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