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Fun with wild waterleaf

May 1, 2015 By Erica M. Davis 2 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...]

Filed Under: April, edible, featured, May, spring, useful info Tagged With: Colorado, Denver, foraging, greens, Hydrophyllum, Rocky Mountains, urban foraging, waterleaf

Snowboarding, Nettles, & Jerusalem Artichoke Bouyah

April 17, 2015 By 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...]

Filed Under: edible, featured, high altitude, invasive Tagged With: Allium, Boletus edulis, Canada thistle, Colorado, Denver, foraging, invasive, jerusalem artichoke, mushroom, onion, porcini, recipes, Rocky Mountains, stinging nettles, urban foraging

Fruiting forward

September 16, 2014 By Erica M. Davis 1 Comment

We went for wild plums in the cold, misty morning, gathering them with fingers freezing and lethargic, my feet squishing in icy, wet boots. It was worth enduring the thorny thicket, the musky scent of catnip tall around us, to come home with 20 lbs or so of plums, without making … [Read more...]

Filed Under: edible, fall, useful info Tagged With: apples, Colorado, Denver, foraging, fruit, introduced, non-native, pears, plums, Rocky Mountains, urban foraging, wild plums

Low Cost Meal—Beans & Dried Dock

November 6, 2013 By Erica M. Davis Leave a Comment

My fiance and I are seasonal workers. Most of our income comes from a winter job that lasts 6 months. It offers health insurance for that time period, so we jump on it each winter. In December I can finally get my cavities filled, and he can upgrade his glasses and contact … [Read more...]

Filed Under: edible, high altitude, useful info Tagged With: cheap, Colorado, dock, foraging, low-cost, recipes, Rocky Mountains, urban foraging

Spruce tip yogurt sauce

June 8, 2013 By Erica M. Davis 1 Comment

Everybody seems so into spruce tips—those soft, light-green new tips that grow on spruce (Picea spp.) in spring. I’m still sleuthing about trying to find out where that idea on the culinary use of spruce tips came from. Maybe the cookbook Noma: Time and Place in Nordic Cuisine by … [Read more...]

Filed Under: edible Tagged With: Colorado, Denver, foraging, kochia, recipes, Rocky Mountains, spruce, urban foraging

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Spring foraging

Elm samaras are edible, gourmet

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Fun with wild waterleaf

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Wild spring salad

Orache is a wild favorite

Cattail heart & tomato salads

Whitetop mustard bud clusters

Spring plant tour: Frisco, Colorado

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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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