These 18 Best Foraging Blogs are a great resource, whether edible wild plants are food, medicine, or a curiosity for you. Blog authors are scientists, naturalists, chefs, homesteaders, and herbalists. Each is profiled to help you find what you need.
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Loaded with healthful ingredients, raspberry ice cream with oats and honey is a delightfully rustic treat. It’s based on a Scottish dessert called cream crowdie, traditionally served at summer weddings.
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This garlic mustard pesto is mellowed with baby spinach. Who would have thought a common weed could make such a delightful pasta sauce? It does. Put an invasive plant to good use with this tasty version of an Italian classic.
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Foraging garlic mustard is good for your health, your pocketbook, and the environment. Learn where to find it, and how to identify, harvest, and eat it.
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Learn to identify common milkweed and use this recipe to make a milkweed meal. A simple salad of milkweed shoots and radishes is an easy and tasty way to enjoy this plant in spring. Cooking the radishes sweetens them and reduces the sharpness.
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These refreshing, sweet-tart strawberry fleeceflower yogurt pops are made with the juice of wild fleeceflower (Japanese knotweed). The plant is easy to find, and the pops are easy to make. A great foray into cooking with wild edibles, and it turns an invasive plant into a food resource.
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Learning Japanese knotweed identification and juicing lets you transform an invasive plant into a valuable food resource. The plant is easy to find and identify, and the tasty, tart juice is easy to make.
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Maple sugaring is a wonderful family activity! In Part II of How to Make Maple Syrup, I cover boiling off indoors vs. outdoors, show our own evaporator, and discuss filtering, canning, color, and flavor.
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Learning how to make maple syrup is a great project for the family. This first part covers choosing the trees, placing the taps, and collecting sap. A subsequent post will cover boiling it off to produce delicious syrup.
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Both sweet birch and yellow birch produce methyl salicylate, also called oil of wintergreen. Learn to identify these trees and use them to make an alcohol extract of wintergreen.
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