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Fruiting forward

September 16, 2014 By Erica M. Davis 1 Comment

We went for wild plums in the cold, misty morning, gathering them with fingers freezing and lethargic, my feet squishing in icy, wet boots. It was worth enduring the thorny thicket, the musky scent of catnip tall around us, to come home with 20 lbs or so of plums, without making … [Read more...]

Filed Under: edible, fall, useful info Tagged With: apples, Colorado, Denver, foraging, fruit, introduced, non-native, pears, plums, Rocky Mountains, urban foraging, wild plums

European highbush cranberry glaze

November 27, 2012 By Erica M. Davis 2 Comments

Call me a “bitter-plant apologist,” but I’m pretty pleased with myself for this, my first foray into cooking with Viburnum opulus, the highbush cranberry that is the escaped ornamental cousin of the much-celebrated native species. Says Sam Thayer in The Forager’s Harvest … [Read more...]

Filed Under: edible, fall Tagged With: Colorado, Denver, foraging, highbush cranberry, introduced, non-native, recipes

Wild Edible Notebook—May Release!

May 20, 2012 By Erica M. Davis 3 Comments

Good news! A new season of the Wild Edible Notebook is here, one full month ahead of the planned start date. This first-ever May issue of the Wild Edible Notebook features curly dock (Rumex crispus), examined both in light of its edibility and its designation as an invasive … [Read more...]

Filed Under: edible Tagged With: Colorado, curly dock, Denver, dock, foraging, introduced, invasive, recipes, Rocky Mountains, watercress, Wild Edible Notebook

New England Foraging Adventure – Part I

May 4, 2012 By Erica M. Davis 15 Comments

Mom goes in for a taste of garlic mustard. You should've seen the face she made after trying it.

“There’s a reason why the pre-Columbian population of Colorado was low,” wild plants author Sam Thayer once wrote me, referring to the relative lack of edible wild plants in this semi-arid land compared to lusher parts of the country. How dare he? I recall thinking—though truth … [Read more...]

Filed Under: edible, invasive Tagged With: bitter dock, chickweed, Connecticut, dock, east coast, foraging, garlic mustard, introduced, New Hampshire, New York, non-native

Dandelion Spinach Salad with Red Cabbage and Clover Petals

October 1, 2010 By Erica M. Davis Leave a Comment

Dandelion spinach salad with red clover petals and red cabbage, delicious!

Ok, I can’t stop myself—I must boast about yet another rousing success with these delicious fall dandelions I keep finding up on the mountainside. Whereas I served the last batch finely chopped in a yummy marinated salad, I served these latest dandelion greens chopped coarsely … [Read more...]

Filed Under: edible, high altitude Tagged With: clover, Colorado, dandelion, Denver, east coast, flowers, foraging, introduced, New Hampshire, New York, non-native, Pennsylvania, recipes, Rocky Mountains, urban foraging

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Spring foraging

Elm samaras are edible, gourmet

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Fun with wild waterleaf

Don’t forget the tumble mustard

Wild spring salad

Orache is a wild favorite

Cattail heart & tomato salads

Whitetop mustard bud clusters

Spring plant tour: Frisco, Colorado

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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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