Hi and thanks so much for visiting! I go by Wild Food Girl or WFG, but my real name is Erica Davis.
Originally from Connecticut, I spent my formative years chasing plants in the Eastern Woodlands before moving to Colorado in 2008. The Wild Food Girl blog was born in 2010, and from 2011-2015 it was home to a monthly magazine called Wild Edible Notebook.
Today I offer a variety of plant walks and hands-on wild food experiences around the state. I have taught courses on edible, medicinal, and toolcraft plants at Colorado Mountain College in Breckenridge, and presented at the Midwest Wild Harvest Festival in Wisconsin and Forest to Field Festival in western Colorado.
I am now deep into writing my first book, a detailed experiential account of a selection of edible plants in the western half of the U.S., including those found in the mountains, prairie, and high desert, as well as non-native species found in disturbed habitats throughout the country.
I recently launched a few new projects. One is WFG Learn, a membership program with many detailed instructional videos on plant and mushroom ID and foraging, plus other educational resources. In another, called Healthy & Wild, I am reinventing my wild food recipes and culinary techniques to take advantage of the health benefits a plant-based diet can afford.
I am fortunate to count among my mentors Samuel Thayer, author of The Forager’s Harvest (2006), Nature’s Garden (2010), and Incredible Wild Edibles (2017); and local author Cattail Bob Seebeck, who wrote Best-Tasting Plants of Colorado and the Rockies (1998) and currently teaches a course on Survival Plants at several area colleges.
My background includes a BA in archaeology and an MA in education, as well as experience working as a bilingual Spanish elementary school teacher in Los Angeles, and a snowboard trainer in Breckenridge, before taking on my current career as a freelance writer. I like to say I am a jack of all trades, and a master of precisely that, heh.
Thanks again for stopping by and hopefully we can forage together!
—WFG
Updated 3.2.24
