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Healthy vegan dandelion soup

May 13, 2024 Erica M. Davis Leave a Comment

This is a healthy vegan version of my favorite dandelion soup. Called manest, it is an Italian soup traditionally made with bitter greens, vegetables,  sausage, and cheese. I learned it from my father-in-law's late wife Carol, whose grandparents gathered dandelion greens in … [Read more...]

April, edible, featured, food, healthy vegan, May, oil free, plants, SOS free, spring, whole food plant based Colorado, Connecticut, dandelion, Denver, east coast, foraging, healthy and wild, healthy vegan, New Hampshire, New York, plant based, recipes, Rocky Mountains, SOS free, urban foraging, vegan, whole food, wild vegan

Ellen Zachos’ ‘Backyard Foraging’

August 4, 2014 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...]

books authors, east coast, Ellen Zachos, foraging, hosta, New York, ornamentals, recipes, Wild Edible Notebook

Mint madness

June 15, 2012 Erica M. Davis 5 Comments

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...]

edible, June, summer Colorado, foraging, mint, New York, Rhus, squawbush, wildcrafting

New England Foraging Adventure – Part III

May 9, 2012 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...]

edible 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 Erica M. Davis 15 Comments

Lush bitter dock growing outside a chicken coop in eastern CT.

“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...]

edible, invasive bitter dock, chickweed, Connecticut, dock, east coast, foraging, garlic mustard, introduced, New Hampshire, New York, non-native

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