Wild Food Girl

Wild Black Currant Brandy Voted Best in House

It’s wild booze month at Hunger & Thirst and again I have Butterpoweredbike to thank for motivating me to the computer to write something. That—and for getting me into the liquor cabinet for a night of distraction from my many winter obligations. Fortunately, Gregg and I were good little alcohol squirrels over the warmer months,...

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A Fall for Pumpkin & Acorns Soup

Okay I’ll admit it. I’m rusty—rusty at cooking, rusty at foraging, rusty at writing about stuff that interests me. I swear I ignore the writing for a week and suddenly it’s three weeks and before I know it I’ve totally forgotten that I actually enjoy writing. The computer crash didn’t help. I lost several not-yet-published...

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Wild Edible Notebook—November Release!

A teensy bit more than halfway through November I am once again honored to present the Wild Edible Notebook, my journal-style tale of select plants. This sixth issue centers on two blue-purple edibles, namely wild grapes and juniper “berries”—late fall forage to carry us over through the cold winter until the start of next spring’s wildcrafting...

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Foraging Unfamiliar Ground (for Radio)

As wild food foragers, we sometimes find ourselves on unfamiliar ground. A trip somewhere new can be both exciting and intimidating. What is there to forage here? This was the situation in which my co-foraging friend, Butterpoweredbike, and I found ourselves two weeks ago in the dry, windswept hills northwest of Lyons, Colorado. We’d been...

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Boulder to Rediscover “The Forgotten Feast” November 1

Hank Shaw, author of Hunt, Gather, Cook: Finding the Forgotten Feast, makes a tour stop at the Black Cat Farm Table Bistro in Boulder, Colorado on Tuesday, November 1 to sign books and help guests rediscover that which has been forgotten through a prix fixe feast featuring foraged foods and flavors. Chef Eric Skokan presents...

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Cattail Bob’s Book is Back in Print

Cattail Bob Seebeck’s popular local guide, Best-Tasting Wild Plants of Colorado and the Rockies (1998) is now back in print, self-published and available for purchase either directly from the author (email cattailbob[at]q.com) or the Pikes Peak Community College (PPCC) bookstore, with plans underway to make it available at Amazon in the near future. In recent...

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There’s No Foraging Like Snow Foraging

It’s mid October and it just keeps snowing here in the high country at 11,000 feet in Colorado Rockies. You’d think foraging season were over, but it’s not. Two days ago I awoke to a steady snow and found myself unable to focus on work. By noon it stopped but the wind kicked up; the...

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Wild Edible Notebook—October Release!

Halfway through October I am once again honored to present the Wild Edible Notebook, my journal-style tale of select plants. This fifth issue is about acorns. It includes an entry about my own experience processing and preparing a bounty of Colorado acorns (yes, we have acorns) as well as a Wisconsin acorn neophyte’s adventures with her back yard...

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Berry Bliss at Strawberry Park

This blog is just the small-potatoes-rambling of one over-exuberant semi-neophyte foraging addict, but I swear, wild food must be en vogue or something—because in the last four months I have received not one or two but three different emails from producers seeking to create TV or web shows about foraging. One inquired as to whether...

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Foraging Fungi in the National Forest

Note: I wrote this article at the behest of a Forest Service representative; it is re-posted here, plus subtitles, with permission of the Summit Daily News, which ran it on October 1. Just as collecting firewood from the national forest for home use requires a permit, so too does foraging for fungus in the White River National Forest...

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