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...]
Fall plant tour: Frisco, CO
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...]
Berry bliss at Strawberry Park
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...]
