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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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Fall foraging

Oregon grape delight

Wild seed drink

Quickweed greens

The delicious ‘wild wonderberry’

Three pennycress mustard recipes

Land caviar from kochia seeds

Fruity sipping vinegars

Wild tarragon in the weeds

Sprouted goosefoot flour

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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