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Elkslkip green curry

July 2, 2011 Erica M. Davis 3 Comments

I love Thai curries, and it turns out elkslip or Western marsh marigold (Calthus leptosepala) is a good choice of vegetables for them, because the greens cook down so tender. I used an extremely spicy paste, so I mixed spoonfuls with coconut milk until it was to my liking—and it … [Read more...]

edible, high altitude, summer Colorado, dandelion, elkslip, foraging, recipes, Rocky Mountains

Crazy for cow parsnip

June 19, 2011 Erica M. Davis 4 Comments

I gathered some cow parsnip a few days ago on June 15th. It’s still young in the high country (at 10,500 feet), so I just took a little—a few snips here and there of furled, unfurling, and newly unfurled woolly green leaves and petioles (leaf stalks), from a community of plants, … [Read more...]

edible, high altitude, June, summer Colorado, cow parsnip, foraging, Rocky Mountains

Purslane Rescue Mission

August 2, 2010 Erica M. Davis 4 Comments

Pennsylvania purslane

We went to the east coast for two weeks in July, and my sister met me in Maine with a small bag of New Hampshire purslane—that low branching succulent that many gardeners throw in the yard trimmings without a second thought. I promptly boiled it up and served it with butter and … [Read more...]

edible, summer Colorado, dandelion, Denver, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, purslane, recipes, sorrel

Tiny Cornucopia of Colorado Wild Edibles

July 30, 2010 Erica M. Davis Leave a Comment

A cornucopia of Colorado wild edibles. From left to right, mustard, peppergrass, red clover, pennycress, white clover, wild strawberry peeking through, yarrow, and dandelions.

It’s a treat to be home to the quiet of the mountains again. I awoke today to the sweet, silent obscurity of the early morning dark followed by a sunrise of pale yellow behind bulbous, deep purple clouds left over from last night’s rainstorm. It must have rained hard while we … [Read more...]

edible, high altitude, medicinal, summer clover, Colorado, flowers, foraging, mustard, pennycress, peppergrass, Rocky Mountains, strawberries, tea, yarrow

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Oregon grape delight

Wild seed drink

Quickweed greens

The delicious ‘wild wonderberry’

Three pennycress mustard recipes

Land caviar from kochia seeds

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Wild tarragon in the weeds

Sprouted goosefoot flour

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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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