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...]
Foraging Unfamiliar Ground (for Radio)
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...]
No foraging like snow foraging
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...]
The Last of the Dandelions
The last of this batch, that is, in the refrigerator. And it’s not just dandelions, either; I’ve run out of my entire fresh bounty of wild edible plants, having spent my Fourth of July weekend embroiled in other pursuits—a tandem, costumed A-Basin snowboarding pond-skim with … [Read more...]
Elkslkip green curry
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...]
