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Low Cost Meal—Beans & Dried Dock

November 6, 2013 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...]

edible, high altitude, useful info cheap, Colorado, dock, foraging, low-cost, recipes, Rocky Mountains, urban foraging

Spruce tip yogurt sauce

June 8, 2013 Erica M. Davis 1 Comment

Spruce tips—those soft, light-green new tips that grow on spruce (Picea spp.) in spring—have become wildly popular lately, and 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 … [Read more...]

edible Colorado, Denver, foraging, kochia, recipes, Rocky Mountains, spruce, urban foraging

More Whitetop Kitchen Experiments

May 30, 2013 Erica M. Davis 4 Comments

The one nice thing about invasive, edible plant species is that there are more than enough specimens available for kitchen tests, and you don’t feel like you’re dishonoring nature’s gifts when something goes wrong. Like in my recent countertop honey infused with whitetop … [Read more...]

edible, invasive Colorado, Denver, foraging, hoary cress, mustard, recipes, Rocky Mountains, urban foraging, whitetop

Rebecca Lerner’s ‘Dandelion Hunter’

April 9, 2013 Erica M. Davis Leave a Comment

There’s a young woman who hunts dandelions and sundry other edible and medicinal wild plants out of an apartment in Portland, Oregon, relishing reconnecting with nature after a several-years-long stint sequestered indoors, surrounded by a plantless outdoors, working for a New … [Read more...]

books, edible, medicinal authors, creative nonfiction, foraging, Oregon, Portland, Rebecca Lerner, urban foraging

Pumpkin, nettles and beer, oh my!

April 3, 2013 Erica M. Davis 1 Comment

I’ve had a request so I hereby present two squash nettle soups, both made with ingredients that are out of season here at 10,000 feet in the Colorado high country. The first—a pumpkin, nettle, and beer soup—I made in November after receiving the gift of a pumpkin on our … [Read more...]

edible, high altitude Colorado, Denver, foraging, Rocky Mountains, stinging nettles, urban foraging

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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’

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