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spice up your campsite cooking with wild ginger
today’s wild edible profile is one of my favorites, we’ll be taking a look at wild ginger (specifically, western wild ginger). this one took me a while to find for the first time since it’s got a number of common lookalikes, and it grows low to the ground so it’s often hidden by other larger… Read more
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wild edible recipe: toasted couscous with nettle pesto & roasted radishes
Stinging nettles are an intimidating plant to forage for, but they’re worth the trouble, I promise! My favorite thing to do with a bag of nettles is to make them into a pesto, it makes an insanely delicious and versatile ingredient. This recipe combines the nettle pesto with one of my other favorite (but little-known)… Read more
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wild edible recipe: fireweed tea
fireweed (chamaenerion angustifolium) also known as: great willowherb, bombweed habitat: temperate climates, often in barren or disturbed soil such as areas recovering from wildfire edible parts: flowers, leaves, and stems Fireweed was one of my first successful foraging harvests. I’d been spending a lot of time at a cafe where they sold fireweed tea, and… Read more
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wild edible recipe: yarrow tea
common yarrow (achillea millefolium) also known as: yarrow, milfoil habitat: nearly everywhere except parts of africa and southern asia edible parts: entire plant Yarrow is a plant that’s easy to recognize, it’s got these frilly feathery leaves that really don’t look like anything else that I can think of. Mature yarrow plants will also have… Read more
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how I got into foraging
I’m pretty new to the world of botany. I started getting into plants last year, when my partner and I were staying at an airbnb near mount baker in the north cascades. It was early spring, and both of us as non-native-pacific-northwesterners had never really experienced a temperate rainforest before. I mean shit, neither of… Read more