Wild Edibles

Hazelnuts: Foraging for American and beaked hazelnuts |

Dock seeds are prolific everywhere you look right now, so this is a great time to gather them and make dock seed flour. If you haven’t ever cooked with dock seeds, they’re an easy and healthy source of wild flour to forage. Dock grows as an invasive weed all over the world. You can often …

36 Likes, 18 Comments - Alicia Bayer (@magicandmayhem) on Instagram: “Experimented with dock seeds this week. They're everywhere right now and I've always wanted to try…”

We try to use nettles a lot around here since they’re so healthy, so tasty and grow so plentifully all around us. One of the kids’ favorite ways to enjoy nettles are in smoothies. Yes, really! You probably know how healthy stinging nettles are for you, but most folks don’t realize you can use them …

Elderberry has long been regarded as a cold-and-flu remedy in West Virginia and was held magical by the Celts and was sacred to many Indian tribes. It's also an ideal plant for managing transition zones in woodland areas.

Not all invasive plants are necessary to get rid of. Garlic Mustard has been consumed for hundreds of years and has great nutritional value. Almost the entire plant can be used to promote a healthy

Learn about foraging for free food in the wild this June. Find delicious Wild Strawberries and Shaggy Ink Cap mushrooms. Uk forage and bushcraft skills.

The main problem I have with fruit trees is that they very seldom stop growing at 8′ tall. Most of the best looking harvest is far above that, so I need a way to extend my reach. Enter the fruit picker. I have a very old one my father passed on to me, and it …

There’s a fantastic new book that focuses on foraging with kids. Family Foraging: A Fun Guide to Gathering and Eating Wild Plants was released last month and it’s my new favorite book on foraging with kids. The book, by David Hamilton, features 30 commonly found wild edible plants of North America. The plants covered in the …

If you’d like to forage your own elderberries later this summer, now is the time to start looking because elder flowers are blooming (or are just finishing) and the elder shrubs so easy to spot. Here’s everything you need to know to find elderberries and elder flowers. Whenever people find out that our family harvests …

I am super excited to share this recipe with you! I'll admit I'm not someone who particular loves mushrooms. In most dishes if I had the option to have the meal with or without mushrooms it would be without. Then again, most of my memories of mushrooms were that of the slimy, rubbery type my father

Chef Alan Bergo's original recipe for Hericium or Lions mane mushroom crabcakes.

The crispy yet light faux crab cakes (vegan lion's mane mushroom crab cakes) are completely vegan, topped with a creamy tofu hollendaise crab cake sauce.

Creamy, buttery, rich, spiced gravy covers and surrounds tender chicken of the woods mushroom pieces in our version of an Indian classic, vegan butter chicken of the woods. This flaky, chicken-flavored mushroom is the perfect chicken alternative in this rich, flavorful dish. Serve over rice…

Preserve your wild mushrooms with this tangy sweet pickled wild mushroom recipe

Here’s one of my favorite ways to use wild ramps, and you can use it to enjoy the wonderful flavor of ramps all year long. Dry the leaves and grind them with coarse sea salt for a simple but delicious wild ramp salt. Simply dry wild ramp leaves until crisp and then put them in …