Making your own holiday wreath involves four good things: a brisk walk; a gathering of invasive plants like privet, multiflora roses, and bittersweet; a conversation—if you are brave—with…
Read more A DIY Wreath Made From Foraged Greenery and BerriesMugwort flowers amplify and balance the sweet flavors of winter squash, carrots, parsnips, and onion. If you roast fall fruit as a side dish for a savory entrée,…
Read more Mugwort Flowers: An Aromatic Herb to Add to Winter Vegetables and Slow Comfort FoodsWhen the evenings begin to nip and the light becomes clearer than it has been for months, you know it’s pawpaw time. The fruit of Asimina triloba begins…
Read more Pawpaw Streusel Cake: A Recipe for the Native American FruitIn the waning days of fall, a weed that happens to be a wild herb is still growing with enough vigor to defy the season. Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris)…
Read more Mugwort Chips: An Easy Recipe Using the Herb WeedThere are many reasons to visit Cape Town at South Africa’s southern tip in spring. It’s a so-called shoulder season, so there is no crush of summer visitors.…
Read more Veldkool: A Wild South African Vegetable that Can Be Foraged in the SpringWhile spring and summer offer a bounty of wild food treasures, there is a cornucopia of good things to forage in fall. Fruits like native aronia and pawpaw,…
Read more Fall Foraging: 6 Easiest Fruits and Mushrooms to Forage in the AutumnWe’ve been following Midwesterner by birth, Californian in spirit Louesa Roebuck for more than a decade, describing her as a “fearless forager” in one story, “renegade florist” in…
Read more Quick Takes With: Louesa Roebuck – GardenistaThe first time I saw a chicken of the woods, the massive mushroom was frilling the base of a dying oak tree. It was a hot summer day…
Read more Chicken of the Woods: An Edible Mushroom that’s Easy to Identify and ForageDo you know where the wild lettuce grows? Ask a bunny. In Beatrix Potter’s eponymous tale, the Flopsy Bunnies eat too many lettuces and fall asleep in an…
Read more Wild Lettuce: A Delicious Foraged Vegetable that Makes an Outstanding Summer SoupMakes 12 muffin-sized pies; 12 3¾-inch hand pies; or 1 large 9-inch pie (baked in a springform pan) Summer is picnic-friendly, and having a serviceberry pie all to…
Read more Serviceberry pie celebrates the start of summer berry seasonAbove: The blind-baked pastry shell is filled with custard and ramp leaves. Ramp Leaf Quiche Makes 1 x 9-inch quiche (springform pan) Equal parts luxury and restraint, the…
Read more How to Grow Ramps in a Pot, Plus a Recipe for Ramp Leaf QuicheFor months, from early spring to the edges of summer, ground ivy’s tubular blue flowers announce its (often resented) presence in sunny lawns or in the high shade…
Read more Ground Ivy: This Pretty Weed that Grows on Lawns Is EdibleIn this Ramp Pesto Recipe, wild leeks (ramps), garlic, toasted pine nuts and parmesan cheese blended with olive oil and lemon juice for a creamy delicious condiment. Recipe…
Read more Ramp Pesto Recipe – Simply ScratchIf there ever was a time to learn how to identify elm trees easily, it is in their brief, green samara season. Samara are winged seeds, and the…
Read more Elm Samara: Recipes Using the Tree’s Edible, Winged SeedsSeen through the critical lens of weeds, dandelions are perhaps the most familiar nuisance plant of all. Seen through the appreciative lens of food, they are a welcome…
Read more Dandelion Recipes: Delicious Served as a Wilted Side or in a SaladSpring’s edible weeds are ready to eat. But what is a weed? It’s not a new question but it bears repeating. Is a weed a problem plant, a…
Read more Edible Weeds Are Vegetables in Disguise: Here are 24 Spring Weeds to EatSpring is sprung, the mugwort is riz (at least in Brooklyn, New York). I wonder where the mower is? Because the first, silvery tufts of spring mugwort have…
Read more Mugwort in the Spring: An Edible and Tender Delicate Herb“The Calanques, a real garden of stones on the edge of the sea.” This is how the famed French rock climber and mountain guide Gaston Rébuffat described the…
Read more The Calanques in France: A Geographical and Botanical WonderFuki is the (transliterated) Japanese name for the perennial plant butterbur. In Japan, fuki no to, the aromatic buds of butterbur, are a delicacy and a herald of…
Read more A Recipe for Fuki Buds: Butterburs Herald the Coming of SpringAbove: Naans in cross section: cooked in 3 minutes. Above: A trayful of hot field garlic naan, ready to be devoured. Field Garlic Naan Makes 6 to 8…
Read more Field Garlic Naan: A No-Knead Feral Recipe Inspired by Classic Butter Naan
