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Wild seed drink

September 30, 2021 Erica M. Davis Leave a Comment

This gorgeous wild seed drink is one of the best things I’ve made in a while! I used the seeds of peppergrass, a wild mustard you wouldn't think you could enjoy like chia seeds. But you can! There are many species of peppergrass (Lepidum spp.), both native and non-native. I … [Read more...]

edible, fall, featured, food, high altitude, medicinal, mustards, plants, recipes chia, Colorado, Denver, foraging, mustard, mustard seeds, recipes, Rocky Mountains, seeds, urban foraging, wild seeds

Best dandelion soup ever

March 13, 2019 Erica M. Davis 5 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...]

April, edible, featured, high altitude, non-native, recipes, spring

Three pennycress mustard recipes

October 4, 2017 Erica M. Davis 7 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...]

edible, fall, featured, high altitude, mustards, non-native, recipes

Forgotten rhubarb of the Old West

June 18, 2016 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...]

edible, featured, high altitude, June, plants, summer feral, foraging, high country, rhubarb

Narrow dock in mushroom sauce

June 16, 2016 Erica M. Davis Leave a Comment

There are many species of edible dock (Rumex spp.), all of which are related to buckwheat and rhubarb. As a group they generally have dark green leaves that are somewhat thick, and papery sheaths wrapping the base of their leaves and flower stems. Docks produce clustered seed … [Read more...]

edible, featured, high altitude, June, summer Colorado, dock, narrow dock, native, recipe, Rumex, triangulivalvis

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Fall foraging

Oregon grape delight

Wild seed drink

Quickweed greens

The delicious ‘wild wonderberry’

Three pennycress mustard recipes

Land caviar from kochia seeds

Fruity sipping vinegars

Wild tarragon in the weeds

Sprouted goosefoot flour

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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