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Japanese knotweed season

April 9, 2019 By Erica M. Davis 3 Comments

I’m breaking my fast this morning with stewed Japanese knotweed and peaches over Greek yogurt, topped with homemade granola. It’s a surprisingly nice combination—and beyond that, it’s very simple to make. I used last year’s harvest—which I had chopped and stewed with sugar and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: April, edible, featured, invasive, May, medicinal, non-native, plants, spring

Best dandelion soup ever

March 13, 2019 By Erica M. Davis 2 Comments

Two years ago I was harvesting great quantities of dandelions greens from my back yard—which is located at 10,000 feet in Colorado’s high country—on April 7. Last year, we pushed our harvest back more than a month to May 22, when finally, after a wet rainy spell, the leaves … [Read more...]

Filed Under: April, edible, featured, high altitude, non-native, recipes, spring

Samuel Thayer’s ‘Incredible Wild Edibles’

December 16, 2017 By Erica M. Davis 1 Comment

If you are an avid fan of wild food foraging, then you know the author Samuel Thayer already. His books, Nature’s Garden (2010) and Forager’s Harvest (2006), set a new standard for foraging literature, with longer and more in-depth plant accounts than the majority of edible wild … [Read more...]

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Three pennycress mustard recipes

October 4, 2017 By Erica M. Davis 6 Comments

We are just back from the Midwest Wild Harvest Festival in Wisconsin, where I had the honor of presenting for the first time. One of my workshops was on wild mustards— specifically, I invited participants to join me in making three mustard condiments from the seeds of field … [Read more...]

Filed Under: edible, fall, featured, high altitude, mustards, non-native, recipes

Forgotten rhubarb of the Old West

June 18, 2016 By Erica M. Davis 2 Comments

I love my Old West town for many reasons, and one of them is rhubarb (Rheum spp.). It is one of the few food plants that can be cultivated here up high where I live, due to our extremely short growing season and cold nights. I’m hardly the first to discover this, for the rhubarb … [Read more...]

Filed Under: edible, featured, high altitude, June, plants, summer Tagged With: feral, foraging, high country, rhubarb

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Samuel Thayer’s ‘Incredible Wild Edibles’

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Katrina Blair’s ‘Wild Wisdom of Weeds’

Thomas Elpel’s ‘Foraging the Mountain West’

Dina Falconi’s ‘Foraging & Feasting’

Ellen Zachos’ ‘Backyard Foraging’

Rebecca Lerner’s ‘Dandelion Hunter’

John Kallas’ ‘Edible Wild Plants’

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