Wild Food Girl

Wild food foraging for the soul.

  • Home
  • About
    • About WFG
    • Contact
    • Privacy Policy
  • Plants
    • Spring
    • Summer
    • Fall
  • Classes
    • Colorado Classes
    • Web Classes $20
    • WFG Learn Membership
    • Private Classes
  • WFG Learn
  • Healthy & Wild
  • Notebook
  • Shop
    • Ghost Beads
    • Gift Cards
  • Email
  • Account
    • My Account
    • Lost password

Snowboarding, Nettles, & Jerusalem Artichoke Bouyah

April 17, 2015 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...]

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

Stuffballs on the Menu

September 20, 2013 Erica M. Davis 1 Comment

This has been quite a season for puffballs—both large and small—in the Colorado high country. Though the season for giant puffballs is upon us, I wanted to first share a preparation we’ve been enjoying with small puffballs, which are still out there fruiting like crazy too. I … [Read more...]

edible, high altitude, mushrooms, puffballs Colorado, foraging, mushroom, puffball, recipes, Rocky Mountains

Old Places, New Head Spaces

September 19, 2013 Erica M. Davis 1 Comment

Yesterday we revisited one of our old, favorite hikes on the shoulder of Pennsylvania Mountain above Fairplay, Colorado. We must have done a variation of that hike—sometimes ducking into the forest on game trails to encounter still-open mine holes and long-abandoned cabins, … [Read more...]

edible, high altitude, mushrooms Boletus edulis, Colorado, foraging, mushroom, mustard, porcini, realizations, Rocky Mountains

Whistling Suillus

September 13, 2013 Erica M. Davis 10 Comments

For years I steered clear of the edible mushroom Suillus tomentosus—not because it was difficult to identify, but because it wasn’t supposed to be very good. "Suillus tomentosus has a reputation for being a second-class edible and is best when very young,” Vera Stucky Evenson … [Read more...]

edible, mushrooms Colorado, foraging, mushroom, recipes, Rocky Mountains, slippery jack, Suillus, Suillus brevipes, Suillus tomentosus

My turn to do wild edible gnocchi

April 19, 2013 Erica M. Davis 1 Comment

It’s markdown season at the grocery store, now that the tourists are in absentia for a while, joined by the locals who migrate to parts warmer during mud season too. So it’s time for the good deals—such as the $1 bag of slightly soft “Red Skin Yellow Flesh Colorado Sunrise” … [Read more...]

edible Colorado, Denver, foraging, gnocchi, mushroom, porcini, potato skins, recipes, spruce, stinging nettles

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • …
  • 5
  • Next Page »

JOIN THE EMAIL LIST

Join the Wild Food Girl email list for foraging content, periodic re-issues of the Wild Edible Notebook magazine, raffles, offers, and more. You can unsubscribe any time. Please note: If you are looking for Colorado classes, you can also join the “Colorado foragers” list at the bottom of the calendar page.

Fluent Optin Form

Copyright © 2025 · Wild Food Girl · Thanks for Reading!

0