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Wild black currant brandy

January 28, 2012 Erica M. Davis 4 Comments

It’s wild booze month at Hunger & Thirst, so I have my friend Butter to thank for getting me into the liquor cabinet for a night of distraction from my many winter obligations. Fortunately, Gregg and I were good alcohol squirrels over the warmer months, storing wild … [Read more...]

edible, fall, high altitude berries, black currant, booze, Colorado, currants, foraging, native, Ribes, Rocky Mountains

No foraging like snow foraging

October 19, 2011 Erica M. Davis 6 Comments

It’s mid October and it just keeps snowing here at 11,000 feet in Colorado's high country. You’d think foraging season were over, but it’s not. Two days ago I awoke to a steady snow and found myself unable to focus on work. By noon it stopped but the wind kicked up; the way it … [Read more...]

edible, fall, high altitude Colorado, currants, dandelion, foraging, gooseberries, huckleberries, recipes, Rocky Mountains, snow

The current currant season

August 26, 2011 Erica M. Davis 6 Comments

Juicy currants dangling from spiny branches, beware! (Gregg Davis photo)

The currants and gooseberries are ripe now, and oh what a currant season the current season is! I had an inkling of the potential the other day when we visited the Como Roundhouse during Railroad Days and Deb was kind enough to let Gregg and I and Kor from Holland out back to … [Read more...]

edible, fall, high altitude bugs, Colorado, currants, foraging, gooseberries, insects, Rocky Mountains

Tale of a Golden Foraging Opportunity

July 22, 2011 Erica M. Davis 3 Comments

Forager on a Golden hillside. Photo by Gregg Davis.

On our way home from Denver last Friday, Gregg and I made a detour up Golden Gate Canyon Road to check out a 93-acre ranch that Marilyn, who I met when she commented on a post, invited us to forage. (Actually, truth be told, I invited myself and she was generous enough to … [Read more...]

edible, high altitude, medicinal Colorado, cow parsnip, currants, Denver, foraging, Front Range, Golden, goosefoot, lamb's quarters, mustard, nettles, pennycress, plantain, purslane, recipes, Rocky Mountains, sticky gumweed, stinging nettles, tansy mustard, thistle

Fall Foraging in the Colorado High Country

September 26, 2010 Erica M. Davis Leave a Comment

We had a great hike on Pennsylvania Mountain near our house in the Colorado high country yesterday afternoon. My intention was just to go for a short jaunt because we both have non-wild-edible-plants-related work to get done. So we headed up to one of our usual spots—an old … [Read more...]

edible, high altitude Colorado, currants, dandelion, foraging, gooseberries, mushroom, puffball, Rocky Mountains

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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

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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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