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Monthly Archives: April 2011
Morels: Hunting mushrooms in spring.
Anyone who has looked at my art photography surely has to have noticed that I am fascinated with mushrooms. So it was pretty difficult for me when I decided that the beginners mushroom hunting book that I have wasn’t quite … Continue reading
Posted in Mushroom Hunting, Nature, Wild Food
Tagged ecology, food, foraging, fungus, hunter gatherer, morchella, morel, mushroom, mushroom hunting, nature, outdoors, resiliency, self suficiency, simple living, wild food, woods
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Two Edible Trees.
There is something very different (at least to me) about foraging from trees and shrubs versus ground cover plants. I can’t fully put my finger on it, but picking from a tree just feels more primal to me in some … Continue reading
Posted in Foraging, Nature, Wild Food
Tagged basswood, Cercis canadensis, eastern redbud, eat flowers, eat leaves, ecology, edible flowers, edible leaves, edible trees, food, forage gardening, foraging, forest gardening, hunter gatherer, linden, nature, outdoors, redbud, redbud tree, resiliency, self suficiency, simple living, sustainable, tilia, wild food, woods
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Bloodroot Flowers, plant associations, and other pleasures.
Last summer I identified bloodroot as the plants were on their way out. They aren’t edible, but do have some medicinal uses. I think that they are another example of how our native woodland plants are amazingly beautiful and full … Continue reading
Posted in Foraging, Nature, Wild Food
Tagged Alliaria petiolata, Amelanchier, Bloodroot, Cryptotaenia canadensis, ecology, Erythronium, family, food, forage gardening, foraging, forest gardening, fruit, garlic mustard, honewort, hunter gatherer, juneberry, mayapple, nature, outdoors, Podophyllum peltatum, Polygonatum biflorum, resiliency, Sanguinaria canadensis, self suficiency, Serviceberry, shadbush, simple living, solomon’s seal, sustainable, trout lily, Viola, Violets, wild food, woods
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Spring: A Fast Paced Forest Floor.
Spring is in full swing here. Plants that had been showing slight signs of life, are bursting forth so rapidly that you could miss an entire stage of growth in less than a day. The spring beauty plants that I … Continue reading
Posted in Foraging, Nature, Wild Food
Tagged Claytonia virginica, ecology, fiddlehead, food, forage gardening, foraging, Lindera benzoin, Matteucia struthiopteris, mayapple, nature, ostrich fern, outdoors, Podophyllum peltatum, Polygonatum biflorum, resiliency, self suficiency, simple living, solomon's seal, spice bush, spring beauty, wild food, woods
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Gardening: Cultivating Wisdom.
Gardening: Cultivating Wisdom edited by Dan O’Brien, from the series Philosophy for Everyone edited by Fritz Allhoff, Wiley-Blackwell 2011. So here I am, the wild food proponent, reviewing another gardening book. How did that happen? Well sometimes one thing leads … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Gardening
Tagged ecology, food, food production, gardening, nature
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