Company Updatia

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Cross-posted from the company blog (as if the green text doesn't give it away...):

On June 20th, we set up a table at the Edge of the Woods summer festival and hoped to talk to a few people who braved the rainy weather about the services we offer.

When one of the speakers that morning experienced weather-related delays, I filled in, and discussed some edible woodland plants and answered questions until Julianne arrived and set up her presentation. The event was covered in the Times-News here.

As indicated in the article, I tend not to rely on my identification skills when it comes to wild mushrooms ~ the tendency to misidentify is too high and the possibility that the misidentification involves something poisonous is just enough to keep me from making that call.

If you're interested in the sassafras-leaved dish ~ a variant on the quesadilla ~ you can find the recipe for Frasadillas on my personal blog.

To clarify on the sweet birch/wintergreen, they are two separate plants: the sweet birch, or black birch, is a dark-barked tree that contains a sap that is used to provide the wintergreen flavoring; the wintergreen plant (which has berries with a taste and texture much like a Certs candy) is not used to create the flavoring that is named after.

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This past weekend, Green Man Enviroscaping LLC employees volunteered their time for a trail cleanup session at the Weissport trail head of the Delaware & Lehigh Trail. We were able to clear a lot of crown vetch and some tree-of-heaven growing between the canal and the trail itself, and we helped plant some donated flowers around the memorial for Wilbur “Cap” Bauchspies.