Knotweed ...is an invasive non-native that is taking over New England. It's your civic duty to harvest and eat it!

April 10, 2020 Here in the Boston area, the spring greens have not yet (mostly) popped. We’re still relying on our potatoes, squash and...

March 23, 2020 When you were a kid, about to do something stupid with your friends, did your mother ask: “If everyone else jumped off a...

January 10, 2020 When I was first thinking about this post, I was picturing snow covering the ground, and ruminating on the beautiful...

Think there are no foraged foods to be found in winter? Read about winter greens: Bittercress, Dock, Field Garlic, and Witch Hazel.

harvesting and processing acorns--white and red oaks--cereal recipe using acorn flour, dock flour, and plantain seeds

Digging Fall Roots: Burdock, Queen Anne's Lace, Field Garlic. Soup with wild foraged roots and Nettle greens. Also stir-fired in Asian dish

My first foraging workshop! Purslane, Lamb's Quarters, Plantain, Wood Sorrel, Quickweed, Asiatic Day Flower, Lady's Thumb, Peppergrass

Most of my foraging adventures wind up as salad. What better way to enjoy summer's bounty than picked straight from field to plate?

When I was just beginning to learn the ways of the wild edible world, it seemed like every green needed to be "boiled, in two changes of...

June 20, 2019 One of the great things about foraging is how you're continually acquiring knowledge of new plants. Today, I learned about...

June 15, 2019 It's June, early summer, and pretty much the best time of the year. Why? Lamb's Quarters! One of the mildest, tenderest of...

Appalachian Trail, Killington, Vermont, June 8,2019 When I mention my interest in wild edibles, people will often say, “Cool! Can you...

June 3, 201 It's early June--the time of year when foliage is at its peak and the diversity of edible plants just explodes. I snapped...

information about violets and ways of identifying edible plants

Spring in New England is sprung--or working on springing. The first hike of the season took us to the Berkshires and Mt....