Looking to add a unique twist to your culinary repertoire? Try this unexpectedly delicious appetizer or side dish – batter fried hosta shoots – that will surprise your taste buds!
Continue ReadingCrispy Goodness: Batter Fried Hosta Shoots
Chickweed Salve for Itchy Skin (and tips for foraging)
Chickweed is a wonderful herbal “weed” to forage, and is both edible and medicinal. Be sure to try this chickweed salve recipe – it’s easy to make and is great for itchy skin and all types of skin irritation.
Continue ReadingLow-Carb Zuppa Toscana (Tuscan Soup) with Stinging Nettle (or other wild greens)
Zuppa Toscana – Tuscan Soup with Stinging Nettle
Low Carb Zuppa Toscana is an amazingly delicious soup. Since I love all things foraged, I created this soup with stinging nettle instead of spinach or kale. But yes, you can use either of those if you can’t find nettle.
I highly recommend using sausage from pastured pork, grass-fed butter, and organic vegetables in the recipe. With the wild foraged stinging nettle, it will certainly be a nutrient dense meal.
Sweet & Spicy Purslane Refrigerator Relish
This sweet and spicy purslane refrigerator relish is made with foraged purslane (a delicious common weed), sweet and hot peppers, and onions in an apple cider vinegar brine; it is lightly sweetened with coconut sugar.
Continue Reading17 Plants for Early Spring Foraging
Spring Foraging
If you live in a northern climate like I do, you understand how excited we feel at the approach of spring. I’m no winter hater, but there’s nothing like spring to make me feel alive. There’s more sunlight, mild temperatures, it’s time to start indoor seeds, and many spring plants are popping up and ready to forage.
With spring foraging, I love that I can gather wild greens that most people consider weeds much earlier than they are ready in my lasagna garden. And by this time of year my body is really craving those fresh plants. Continue Reading
More Than Weeds: 5 Common Plants to Forage for Food and Home Remedies
Learn to Forage for Food and Remedies
Are you interesting in foraging but have been a bit hesitant to go forward because you lack the confidence? I understand. I’ve been learning about and identifying plants since I’m a child, but not everyone has had that opportunity.
I also enjoy taking beginners by the hand and helping them to gain the confidence they need to go forward on their foraging journey so that they can forage for food, or even forage for home remedies for their family.Continue Reading