Wild Food Girl

Wild food foraging for the soul.

  • Home
  • About
    • Privacy Policy
  • Plants
    • Spring
    • Summer
    • Fall
  • Notebook
  • Ghost Beads
  • Gift Cards
  • Calendar
  • Contact
loading...

Wild seed drink

September 30, 2021 Erica M. Davis Leave a Comment

This gorgeous wild seed drink is one of the best things I’ve made in a while! I used the seeds of peppergrass, a wild mustard you wouldn't think you could enjoy like chia seeds. But you can! There are many species of peppergrass (Lepidum spp.), both native and non-native. I … [Read more...]

edible, fall, featured, food, high altitude, medicinal, mustards, plants, recipes chia, Colorado, Denver, foraging, mustard, mustard seeds, recipes, Rocky Mountains, seeds, urban foraging, wild seeds

Quickweed greens

September 15, 2021 Erica M. Davis 3 Comments

As the season for abundant leafy greens wanes, I find myself more and more obsessed, tiptoeing daily around my yard and garden to fill my bowl. I steam greens and eat them with eggs for breakfast, fold them in great quantities into omelets, whiz them into pestos and green … [Read more...]

fall, featured, summer Colorado, Denver, east coast, foraging, introduced, non-native, Rocky Mountains, urban foraging

Fun with wild waterleaf

May 1, 2015 Erica M. Davis 5 Comments

Waterleaf is an interesting edible wild plant that does not get a lot of attention in the wild food media. The local species I know is Fendler’s waterleaf (Hydrophyllum fendleri), a native perennial that grows from Colorado’s Front Range west, in damp to moist soil mostly from … [Read more...]

April, edible, featured, May, spring, useful info Colorado, Denver, foraging, greens, Hydrophyllum, Rocky Mountains, urban foraging, waterleaf

Don’t forget the tumble mustard

April 22, 2015 Erica M. Davis 2 Comments

If you’re looking to make use of local wild greens, why not give tumblemustard a try? Tumblemustard (Sisymbrium altissimum)—a non-native species from the Middle East thought to have been introduced to North America years ago via contaminated crop seed—is found throughout much of … [Read more...]

April, edible, featured, high altitude, non-native, spring, useful info foraging, mustard, plains, Rocky Mountains, tumble mustard, tumblemustard

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

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • …
  • 18
  • Next Page »

Facebook

Wild Food Girl

Fall foraging

Oregon grape delight

Wild seed drink

Quickweed greens

The delicious ‘wild wonderberry’

Three pennycress mustard recipes

Land caviar from kochia seeds

Fruity sipping vinegars

Wild tarragon in the weeds

Sprouted goosefoot flour

Book reviews

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’

Archives

Free Issues, Samples & Periodic Updates

If you would like some free samples of the Wild Edible Notebook in PDF form, join the email list! One of these days I'll write with news, updates, or freebies as they become available, and you can unsubscribe any time. Joining the email list takes 2 seconds. Fill your info into the fields below and click "Subscribe."

Copyright © 2023 · Wild Food Girl · Thanks for Reading!