Wild Food Girl

Wild food foraging for the soul.

  • Home
  • About
    • Privacy Policy
  • Plants
    • Spring
    • Summer
    • Fall
  • Wild Edible Notebook
  • Videos
  • Ghost Beads
    • Account details
    • Cart
    • Checkout
  • Calendar
  • Contact
loading...

Fun with wild waterleaf

May 1, 2015 Erica M. Davis 3 Comments

Waterleaf is an interesting edible wild plant that does not get a lot of attention in the wild food media. The local species I know is Fendler’s waterleaf (Hydrophyllum fendleri), a native perennial that grows from Colorado’s Front Range west, in damp to moist soil mostly from … [Read more...]

April, edible, featured, May, spring, useful info Colorado, Denver, foraging, greens, Hydrophyllum, Rocky Mountains, urban foraging, waterleaf

Don’t forget the tumble mustard

April 22, 2015 Erica M. Davis 2 Comments

If you’re looking to make use of local wild greens, why not give tumblemustard a try? Tumblemustard (Sisymbrium altissimum)—a non-native species from the Middle East thought to have been introduced to North America years ago via contaminated crop seed—is found throughout much of … [Read more...]

April, edible, featured, high altitude, non-native, spring, useful info foraging, mustard, plains, Rocky Mountains, tumble mustard, tumblemustard

Wild spring salad

May 13, 2014 Erica M. Davis 3 Comments

Just when I think I know everything there is to know about wild mustards, I find another one to eat. This time, I am excited about tumblemustard (Sisymbrium altissimum), which you might know better as tumbleweed, because at maturity when it dries out it detaches from its stem and … [Read more...]

edible, May, spring, useful info Brassica, Denver, foraging, mustard, orache, recipes, salad, salsify, tumble mustard, wild lettuce

Orache is a wild favorite

May 4, 2014 Erica M. Davis 2 Comments

One of my absolute favorite wild veggies is orache, an herbaceous, annual member of the genus Atriplex that grows in the alkaline soil of Denver, Colorado and surrounding areas. Oraches are salt-loving plants, so in addition to salt playas in landlocked regions, species can also … [Read more...]

edible, featured, May, spring Colorado, Denver, foraging, orache, Wild Edible Notebook

Cattail heart & tomato salads

July 3, 2013 Erica M. Davis 2 Comments

The renowned forager and writer Euell Gibbons called cattails “the supermarket of the swamps,” and from that moniker other nicknames have emerged, among them “the Walmart of the swamps.” Although evoking Walmart doesn’t help me to connect with my joy for wild plants, the … [Read more...]

edible, recipes, spring cattails, Denver, east coast, foraging, recipes

  • « Previous Page
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • Next Page »

Facebook

Wild Food Girl

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’

Archives

Free Issues, Samples & Periodic Updates

If you would like some free samples of the Wild Edible Notebook in PDF form, join the email list! One of these days I'll write with news, updates, or freebies as they become available, and you can unsubscribe any time. Joining the email list takes 2 seconds. Fill your info into the fields below and click "Subscribe."

Copyright © 2022 · Wild Food Girl · Thanks for Reading!