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...

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

Fall Nuts: Hickory, Gingko, Acorn. How to store and process.

October 4, 2019 Back in August, I picked a bunch of berries up in Maine and pledged to try making fruit leather. Being that it's now fall...

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

I had to drive all the way to Maine to find daisies in bloom--and then taste them.

July 1, 2019 Foraging can seem so dowdy, eh? Green, green, green. But it doesn't have to be that way. Many flowers are edible and...

Remember when I posted about first becoming acquainted with Lady's Thumb and Serviceberry? I mentioned that folks in the Foraging/Wild...

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 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...