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Skunk Cabbage – Hidden Beauties
Thanks to a remarkably mild winter, I’ve been able to spend a lot of time in the woods and fields. In fact, up until the end of January, I was still gathering and cooking wild edibles. One day in mid January I was down in the marshes, gathering watercress from a spring fed pool, when I came across a cluster of skunk cabbage blossoms. They quite took me by surprise. I’m not used to encountering them before mid to late February, and here they were, a month early. To be honest, it was a little unnerving. Now that it’s...
read moreGoodbye Lawns- Hello Edible Forest Gardens
Lawns are a huge part of the current American landscape making up a total of 40 acres of the country. This means that lawns are the largest irrigated crop in the country. People spend their weekends making sure their lawns are perfectly green, neat and short; do people actually enjoy tending to their lawns? What do people get from lawns? Our part of the country is naturally forested and if one stopped mowing their lawn, it would eventually turn into a forest. Edible forest gardening is simply designing gardens that mimic the structure...
read moreWild Edibles aren’t just for Survivalists anymore
Learn to cook wild foods with Gourmet Chef Lisa Caccamise and long time forager Paul Tappenden
read moreVideo: Recipe: Bittercress Crostini, Daylily Stir fry, and Peanut Nettle dish
Learn about cooking wild foods with Gourmet Chef Lisa and Forager Paul
read moreVideo: Quick Tip: Learn to Make Ground Ivy Tea
Learn to make ground ivy tea with Chef Lisa and Forager Paul
read moreVideo: Join Suburban Foragers on our Wild Adventure
Join Suburban Foragers on our adventures exploring the natural world. Join us on our mission to reclaim lost foods, ancient culture, and the ways of the wise
read moreNutrition: Foraged Roots Run Deep
The forager’s garden produces so many foods to be discovered or re-discovered. Considered by most to be weeds or invasive, they will take over a garden very quickly if given a chance. But if gardeners were to learn the value of what they commonly throw on the compost pile, they can save a lot of back breaking work and money when they realized that most of these “weeds” are actually delicious and nutritious food. Free, super local, ultra seasonal and amazingly nutritional. However, with every upside, there is always a downside. In...
read moreVideo: Plant Identification Field Cards
Rockland Forager’s Weather Resistant Field Cards: Edible and Medicinal Plants of North Eastern US Popular and botanical names Lists of common uses Heavy duty laminated cards 39 of the most common edible and medicinal plants in North East USA click here to purchase your own set of Field...
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