Today the house is full with a rich, chocolatey aroma, as I have been roasting roots for dandelion coffee—a non-caffeinated beverage once used widely as a coffee substitute. Dandelion coffee is certainly reminiscent of the real deal, but has a deep, fruit-nutty flavor all its … [Read more...]
Wild Edible Notebook—October release!
The leaves are a'changing and the cool winds have begun to blow. Still, foraging season continues into October, and with it, a new-and-improved Wild Edible Notebook blows into town. October 2013 brings many exciting changes to the Notebook, including a new look-and-feel with … [Read more...]
Wild Edible Notebook—May release!
The May flowers have arrived, and with them, another edition of the Wild Edible Notebook! This issue includes a spring foraging report for California's Eastern Sierra based on a recent foray Gregg and I undertook in the Mammoth Lakes region, though most of the plants featured … [Read more...]
Ready-made Road Trip Salad
We embarked on a road trip through Colorado, Utah, and Nevada to California’s Eastern Sierra last week. I had a lot of delicious wild greens on hand that I’d collected in Denver immediately prior, and I wanted to eat fresh salad for the duration of our journey through the … [Read more...]
Fall plant tour: Frisco, CO
Last week I led my first-ever edible plant ID hike, on North Tenmile Creek Trail in Frisco, Colorado. Here's a tour of the plants we found in case you'd like to look for them yourself. Wild Teas First is fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium, above). It is a native plant but it … [Read more...]
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