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A fall for rosehips

October 3, 2014 Erica M. Davis 3 Comments

Legions of soft, plump, frost-kissed rosehips hang heavy upon their slender, prickly stems. Many are perfectly ripe, slipping off the ends of their branches with a soft, orange gush, leaving a sticky paste to be licked off the fingers. First I made rosehip sauce by cooking the … [Read more...]

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Wild Edible Notebook—October release!

October 7, 2013 Erica M. Davis 3 Comments

The leaves are a'changing and the cool winds have begun to blow. Still, foraging season continues into October, and with it, a new-and-improved Wild Edible Notebook blows into town. October 2013 brings many exciting changes to the Notebook, including a new look-and-feel with … [Read more...]

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Rosehip & wild seed granola bars

April 11, 2013 Erica M. Davis 3 Comments

For two years I bugged my friend for her grandmother’s granola bar recipe. “Erica! I finally found my recipe!” she emailed one day, and that was two years ago. So last night, approximately four years after the idea’s inception, my plans finally came to fruition when I made these … [Read more...]

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Foraging Denver in November

November 25, 2012 Erica M. Davis 1 Comment

November is not ideal for wild food foraging where I live in Colorado's high country,  aside from pine needles for tea and flavoring or willow bark to sooth the ever-present, new-job-related headache from which I suffer. You’ll understand why I’m so excited, then, that—after … [Read more...]

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Adding a Wild Zing to Venison with Flavors of the Forest

April 10, 2012 Erica M. Davis 1 Comment

Dried smooth sumac, whole and ground into spice.

If wild is a flavor, then venison is it. I can remember days not too distant when the taste of deer was too much for me—too gamey, too foreign, too reminiscent of Bambi’s mother. Enter my brother-in-law, hunter extraordinaire, and suddenly before I know it a hunk of gifted … [Read more...]

edible foraging, juniper, meat, recipes, Rocky Mountains, rosehips, sumac, venison

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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

Lamb’s quarters pesto

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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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