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Fall plant tour: Frisco, CO

September 16, 2012 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...]

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

Adding a Wild Zing to Venison with Flavors of the Forest

April 10, 2012 Erica M. Davis 1 Comment

Dried smooth sumac, whole and ground into spice.

If wild is a flavor, then venison is it. I can remember days not too distant when the taste of deer was too much for me—too gamey, too foreign, too reminiscent of Bambi’s mother. Enter my brother-in-law, hunter extraordinaire, and suddenly before I know it a hunk of gifted … [Read more...]

edible foraging, juniper, meat, recipes, Rocky Mountains, rosehips, sumac, venison

A Bathtub Gin for the Wild Edible Plants Enthusiast

May 13, 2011 Erica M. Davis 2 Comments

Raising a gin and tonic toast to the humble juniper.

Perhaps one day I’ll get into distilling my own spirits, but until that day comes, I did find a lazy’s man’s gin recipe on Ehow that involves wild edible plants.  According to the website of the now-defunct Gin & Vodka Association, gin flavorings (referred to as … [Read more...]

edible, high altitude angelica, Colorado, foraging, juniper, Rocky Mountains

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Katrina Blair’s ‘Wild Wisdom of Weeds’

Thomas Elpel’s ‘Foraging the Mountain West’

Dina Falconi’s ‘Foraging & Feasting’

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John Kallas’ ‘Edible Wild Plants’

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