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Wild jelly candies

October 24, 2021 Erica M. Davis 7 Comments

This year I have been experimenting with wild jelly candies made from the concentrated juice of wild berries including Oregon grape (Mahonia repens), chokecherry (Prunus virginiana), and wild grape (Vitis riparia). This has been complicated by the fact that I wanted them to be … [Read more...]

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Fruity sipping vinegars

September 15, 2015 Erica M. Davis Leave a Comment

Berry season has been good this year in Colorado’s high country. I've been cooking down all manner of wild berries—black currants and gooseberries, Oregon grapes, and black elderberries from Denver-area landscaping—and straining out the juice through a makeshift setup of cut, … [Read more...]

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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...]

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Berry bliss at Strawberry Park

October 6, 2011 Erica M. Davis 9 Comments

Strawberry Park hot springs in fall. Photo by Gregg Davis.

This blog is just the small-potatoes-rambling of one over-exuberant semi-neophyte foraging addict, but I swear, wild food must be en vogue or something—because in the last four months I have received not one or two but three different emails from producers seeking to create TV or … [Read more...]

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Summer foraging

Huckleberry, billberry, whortleberry, grouseberry

Quickweed greens

Eating nodding thistle stalks

Forgotten rhubarb of the Old West

Narrow dock in mushroom sauce

Wild tarragon in the weeds

A tale of four daisies

You’re my candytuft

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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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