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Forgotten rhubarb of the Old West

June 18, 2016 By Erica M. Davis 2 Comments

I love my Old West town for many reasons, and one of them is rhubarb (Rheum spp.). It is one of the few food plants that can be cultivated here up high where I live, due to our extremely short growing season and cold nights. I’m hardly the first to discover this, for the rhubarb … [Read more...]

Filed Under: edible, featured, high altitude, June, plants Tagged With: feral, foraging, high country, rhubarb

Eating chicory greens

May 17, 2016 By Erica M. Davis 4 Comments

The other day, after years frequenting the same rushing creek in southeast Denver, I finally figured out a way across. On the other side, I found chicory. Chicory (Cichorium intybus) is a non-native plant that’s widely naturalized across the U.S. You probably know it from its … [Read more...]

Filed Under: edible, featured, non-native, plants, useful info Tagged With: chicory, cichoryum intybus, Denver, foraging, non-native

Fun with Wild Waterleaf

May 1, 2015 By Erica M. Davis 2 Comments

Waterleaf is an interesting edible wild plant that does not get a lot of attention in the wild food media. The local species I know is Fendler’s waterleaf (Hydrophyllum fendleri), a native perennial that grows from Colorado’s Front Range west, in damp to moist soil mostly from … [Read more...]

Filed Under: April, edible, featured, May, useful info Tagged With: Colorado, Denver, foraging, greens, Hydrophyllum, Rocky Mountains, urban foraging, waterleaf

Don’t Forget the Tumble Mustard

April 22, 2015 By Erica M. Davis 2 Comments

If you’re looking to make use of local wild greens, why not give tumble mustard (Sisymbrium altissimum) a try? Tumble mustard—a non-native species from the Middle East thought to have been introduced to North America years ago via contaminated crop seed—is found throughout much … [Read more...]

Filed Under: April, edible, featured, high altitude, non-native, useful info Tagged With: foraging, mustard, plains, Rocky Mountains, tumble mustard, tumblemustard

Snowboarding, Nettles, & Jerusalem Artichoke Bouyah

April 17, 2015 By Erica M. Davis 1 Comment

My friend’s husband tells tales of growing up in northern Wisconsin next to the Menominee Nation, where as a boy he played with the kids on the reservation. When they got hungry, they’d head to whichever family’s house was hosting that week’s “bouyah," a Midwestern tradition … [Read more...]

Filed Under: edible, featured, high altitude, invasive Tagged With: Allium, Boletus edulis, Canada thistle, Colorado, Denver, foraging, invasive, jerusalem artichoke, mushroom, onion, porcini, recipes, Rocky Mountains, stinging nettles, urban foraging

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