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Everything You Need to Know about Colorado Acorns

October 27, 2015 Erica M. Davis Leave a Comment

Workshop November 1 with 'Butter' of Hunger & Thirst On Sunday, Nov. 1 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. the Laughing Coyote Project will offer a hands-on class near Boulder that teaches participants how to process acorns into food. I caught up with the instructor, Wendy Petty (whom … [Read more...]

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Land caviar from kochia seeds

October 11, 2015 Erica M. Davis 12 Comments

I almost didn’t believe my first bite of wild-made tonburi—a preparation that involves boiling and soaking kochia seeds to make what is referred to as “land caviar.” The green and black seeds swell to a gelatinous texture with a shiny finish, and the mouth feel is the … [Read more...]

edible, fall, non-native edible, kochia, recipes, tonburi

Fruity sipping vinegars

September 15, 2015 Erica M. Davis Leave a Comment

Berry season has been good this year in Colorado’s high country. I've been cooking down all manner of wild berries—black currants and gooseberries, Oregon grapes, and black elderberries from Denver-area landscaping—and straining out the juice through a makeshift setup of cut, … [Read more...]

edible, fall black currant, chokecherry, elderberry, gooseberry, Oregon grape, soda, vinegar

Wild tarragon in the weeds

September 10, 2015 Erica M. Davis 11 Comments

I am in love. Wild tarragon. It is the same species as the cultivated herb, but grows wild as a native species throughout much of the U.S. and Canada. I can’t believe I didn’t notice it sooner. Wild tarragon is concentrated in the western United States—south to New Mexico and … [Read more...]

edible, fall, featured, high altitude, June, summer

A tale of four daisies

August 24, 2015 Erica M. Davis 5 Comments

My class and I were invited to forage some edible noxious weeds on a public trail in Breckenridge, Colorado a couple years ago. We saw no signs of herbicide spray there, and I had seen none in past years at that spot, so a couple of us took home nice bags of budding ox-eye … [Read more...]

edible, featured, June, summer chamomile daisy, daisy, ox-eye daisy, pineapple weed

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Summer foraging

Huckleberries, billberries, whortleberries, grouseberries

Quickweed greens

Eating nodding thistle stalks

Forgotten rhubarb of the Old West

Narrow dock in mushroom sauce

Wild tarragon in the weeds

A tale of four daisies

You’re my candytuft

Lamb’s quarters pesto

Book reviews

Samuel Thayer’s ‘Incredible Wild Edibles’

Hank Shaw’s ‘Buck, Buck, Moose’

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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