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Leaves of Three, Strawberry!
Wild strawberries look like diminutive cultivated strawberries. If you know one, you should be able to recognize the other. Photo by Gregg Davis. I bolted upright in bed at 2 a.m., awakened by loud,...
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Eat Your Ornamentals: Backyard Foraging with Ellen Zachos
Did you know that hosta—the large-leaved and oft variegated landscaping plant that the deer love so much—is edible? I had no idea until I picked up Ellen Zachos’ book, Backyard Foraging: 65 Familiar...
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Lambs’ Quarters Pesto with Sunflower Seeds
Flowers and leaves of this common weed, lambs’ quarters, are edible. It is now in season in some Breckenridge locales. Seek weeds and you shall find. The other day we tore ourselves away from our...
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Seaweeding the Eastern Shoreline
Irish moss (Chondrus crispus), top right, and a species of sea lettuce (Ulva), collected in Old Lyme, Connecticut. My parents shot me quizzical looks last summer when I announced my plan to gather...
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Northeast Seaweed Farming & Foraging: A Chat with Charles Yarish
Native Gracilaria tikvahiae, an edible seaweed, in culture. A non-native Gracilaria that looks identical and is also edible has invaded the east coast. Photo courtesy of C. Yarish and J.K. Kim, UConn....
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New England Foraging Adventure – Part III
Might think about trimming the chickweed better next time. If I don’t get the rest of this New England story out soon I’ll be permanently stopped up in the blog-hole, though perhaps it’s something a...
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Black birch experiment
Black birch twigs can be used for tea. Note the horizontal lenticels that look like dashes, as Steve Brill describes them. It’s now a week into this month’s wild recipe challenge at Hunger & Thirst...
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Cold-hearted Cattail Salads
Cattail shoots ready for harvest outside Ithaca, NY, June 2013. After tugging a few from the pond, I went for the easier-to-harvest shoots in a dry area on the pond’s edge. The renowned forager and...
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Quickweed greens
As the season for abundant leafy greens wanes, I find myself more and more obsessed, tiptoeing daily around my yard and garden to fill my bowl. I steam greens and eat them with eggs for breakfast,...
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