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Eat Your Ornamentals: Backyard Foraging with Ellen Zachos

August 4, 2014 By Erica M. Davis Leave a Comment

Did you know that hosta—the large-leaved and oft variegated landscaping plant that the deer love so much—is edible? I had no idea until I picked up Ellen Zachos’ book, Backyard Foraging: 65 Familiar Plants You Didn’t Know You Could Eat (Storey Publishing, 2013). Go figure. The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: books Tagged With: authors, east coast, Ellen Zachos, foraging, hosta, New York, ornamentals, recipes, Wild Edible Notebook

Mint Madness

June 15, 2012 By Erica M. Davis 5 Comments

Gregg toasts himself with wild mint mojitos.

There’s nothing like accompanying your boyfriend to a work meeting expecting to sit idly by and instead being invited to forage the back yard. “I’ll weed your garden while I wait,” I offered to his new web client, glancing hungrily at the carpet of young goosefoot (Chenopodium … [Read more...]

Filed Under: edible, June Tagged With: Colorado, foraging, mint, New York, Rhus, squawbush, wildcrafting

New England Foraging Adventure – Part III

May 9, 2012 By Erica M. Davis 3 Comments

Might think about trimming this chickweed better.

If I don’t get the rest of this New England story out soon I’ll be permanently stopped up in the blog-hole, though perhaps it’s something a large dose of chickweed (Stellaria sp.) could solve. I already wrote about chickweed in Part I of this series, I know, but I just read an … [Read more...]

Filed Under: edible Tagged With: chickweed, Colorado, Connecticut, east coast, foraging, New Hampshire, New York, sheep sorrel, sorrel, violet leaves, wood sorrel

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

Wildman App Makes Foraging with Technology Likely

June 10, 2011 By Erica M. Davis Leave a Comment

Wild Edibles app by Steve Brill and WinterRoot LLC. Image from iTunes.

Steve Brill recently released “Wild Edibles,” an iPhone app that helps foragers identify and use edible wild plants. The free version, Wild Edibles Lite, contains 20 common plants, while the full version costs $7.99 and offers “165 edible plants, 52 minor look-alikes, 719 images, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: edible, useful info Tagged With: east coast, foraging, New York, recipes, reviews

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