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Wild Edible Notebook—October release!

October 7, 2013 By 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...]

Filed Under: edible, high altitude, medicinal, useful info, Wild Edible Notebook Tagged With: dandelion, medicinal, rose hips, rosehips

Wild Edible Notebook—May release!

May 14, 2013 By 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...]

Filed Under: edible, useful info Tagged With: asparagus, California, dandelion, evening primrose, plantain, Ribes, stinging nettles, Wild Edible Notebook, wild onions, yarrow

Ready-made Road Trip Salad

May 7, 2013 By Erica M. Davis 1 Comment

We embarked on a road trip through Colorado, Utah, and Nevada to California’s Eastern Sierra last week. I had a lot of delicious wild greens on hand that I’d collected in Denver immediately prior, and I wanted to eat fresh salad for the duration of our journey through the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: edible, May Tagged With: Colorado, dandelion, Denver, foraging, musk mustard, prickly lettuce, recipes, salad, salad dressing, wild onion

Fall plant tour: Frisco, CO

September 16, 2012 By Erica M. Davis Leave a Comment

Last week I led my first-ever edible plant ID hike, on North Tenmile Creek Trail in Frisco, Colorado. Here's a tour of the plants we found in case you'd like to look for them yourself. Wild Teas First is fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium, above). It is a native plant but it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: edible, fall, high altitude Tagged With: currant, dandelion, dock, fireweed, gooseberry, huckleberry, juniper, kinnikinnik, Oregon grape, raspberries, Ribes, rose hips, sweet clover, trailhead, wild chamomile, willow dock

Foraging Unfamiliar Ground (for Radio)

November 1, 2011 By Erica M. Davis 1 Comment

Digging burdock root deep in the brush with Jim Pullen of KGNU. Photo by Butterpoweredbike.

As wild food foragers, we sometimes find ourselves on unfamiliar ground. A trip somewhere new can be both exciting and intimidating. What is there to forage here? This was the situation in which my co-foraging friend, Butterpoweredbike, and I found ourselves two weeks ago in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: edible Tagged With: Boulder, Colorado, dandelion, foraging, media, Rocky Mountains

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Spring foraging

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Wild spring salad

Orache is a wild favorite

Cattail heart & tomato salads

Whitetop mustard bud clusters

Spring plant tour: Frisco, Colorado

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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