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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

Low Cost Meal—Beans & Dried Dock

November 6, 2013 Erica M. Davis Leave a Comment

My fiance and I are seasonal workers. Most of our income comes from a winter job that lasts 6 months. It offers health insurance for that time period, so we jump on it each winter. In December I can finally get my cavities filled, and he can upgrade his glasses and contact … [Read more...]

edible, high altitude, useful info cheap, Colorado, dock, foraging, low-cost, recipes, Rocky Mountains, urban foraging

Wild Edible Notebook—October release!

October 7, 2013 Erica M. Davis 3 Comments

The leaves are a'changing and the cool winds have begun to blow. Still, foraging season continues into October, and with it, a new-and-improved Wild Edible Notebook blows into town. October 2013 brings many exciting changes to the Notebook, including a new look-and-feel with … [Read more...]

edible, high altitude, medicinal, useful info, Wild Edible Notebook dandelion, medicinal, rose hips, rosehips

Wild Edible Notebook—May release!

May 14, 2013 Erica M. Davis 12 Comments

The May flowers have arrived, and with them, another edition of the Wild Edible Notebook! This issue includes a spring foraging report for California's Eastern Sierra based on a recent foray Gregg and I undertook in the Mammoth Lakes region, though most of the plants featured … [Read more...]

edible, useful info asparagus, California, dandelion, evening primrose, plantain, Ribes, stinging nettles, Wild Edible Notebook, wild onions, yarrow

Edible Plants in The Hunger Games

May 30, 2012 Erica M. Davis 8 Comments

Cow lilies (Nuphar lutea) at Lilypad Lake in the national forest, accessed from Frisco, Colorado.

“Plants are tricky. Many are edible, but one false mouthful and you’re dead,” writes Suzanne Collins in The Hunger Games (2008), a book I liked instantly because the protagonists of the impoverished District Twelve are foraging wild food from day one. Katniss and Gale make it … [Read more...]

useful info books, Colorado, Hunger Games, nightshade, pond lily

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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

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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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