A walk on the bogside of a northern inland lake is unlike any other. The spicy damp smell. Cold water seeping up between your toes, squiggling as they’re wont to do when traipsing through the velvet softness of sphagnum moss. The dark skyline of spruce across the mirrorlike waters of the lake. There’s something especially wild about places like these.
Home to unusual relatives, like the insect-devouring pitcher plant or the tamarack, a conifer who acts deciduous, there are many gifts, particularly medicinal ones, that can be found when taking a walk on the wetter side. I’ll look at more in other vlogs, but this video below talks about swamp tea (not to be confused with the poisonous swamp/bog laurel pictured here) and the wondrous sphagnum.
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