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You’re my candytuft

June 2, 2015 By Erica M. Davis 2 Comments

I am occasionally guilty of paging through plant books to find humorous epithets for my better half. For example, he has been called "bristly hawksbeard," "spiny cocklebur," "Western sticktight," and "Mexican sprangletop." Today, however, he took a page out of my book and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: edible, featured, high altitude, June, mustards, summer

Lamb’s quarters pesto

August 11, 2014 By Erica M. Davis 6 Comments

The other day we tore ourselves away from our computers and headed out into the forest in the fading light to sneak in a brisk walk before bed. I have mushrooms on the brain, always, these days, so I was hoping to find some. Our neighborhood at 10,000 feet on the mountainside … [Read more...]

Filed Under: recipes, summer Tagged With: Dina Falconi, east coast, goosefoot, lamb's quarters, lambsquarters, pesto, recipes, Rocky Mountains, weeds, wild spinach

Colorado’s wild blueberries

August 8, 2014 By Erica M. Davis 7 Comments

If you’re looking for blueberries like the kind you buy in the grocery store, look elsewhere. The Colorado high country “blueberries” I’m talking about are not those, but several related species of Vaccinium that are smaller, and grow not on a bush but in the groundcover under … [Read more...]

Filed Under: edible, high altitude, summer Tagged With: bilberry, blueberry, grouseberry, huckleberry, Vaccinium, whortleberry

Leaves of three, strawberry!

July 16, 2014 By Erica M. Davis 2 Comments

I bolted upright at 2 a.m., awakened by loud, forceful hail pounding down on the roof. It was June 28, just a week into summer. I got up and walked across the dark living room to peek out the sliding glass doors. Despite the cold, hard nature of those icy pellets, the hail meant … [Read more...]

Filed Under: edible, high altitude, summer, useful info, Wild Edible Notebook Tagged With: berries, Colorado, east coast, false strawberry, foraging, maceration, recipes, Rocky Mountains, strawberries, wild strawberry

Purslane chilaquiles

June 28, 2012 By Erica M. Davis 2 Comments

Chilaquiles are a favorite way to use leftover tortilla chips in my house, and the wild vegetable purslane (Portulaca oleracea), or "verdolagas" in Spanish, have long been used in Mexican cuisine to accent them. If you don’t know purslane already, you should. This garden weed … [Read more...]

Filed Under: edible, food, June, summer Tagged With: Colorado, foraging, purslane, recipes, Rocky Mountains

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