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A DIY Wreath Made From Foraged Greenery and Berries
[ad_1] Making your own holiday wreath involves four good things: a brisk walk; a gathering of invasive plants like privet, multiflora roses, and bittersweet;…
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Mugwort Flowers: An Aromatic Herb to Add to Winter Vegetables and Slow Comfort Foods
[ad_1] Mugwort flowers amplify and balance the sweet flavors of winter squash, carrots, parsnips, and onion. If you roast fall fruit as a side…
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Pawpaw Streusel Cake: A Recipe for the Native American Fruit
[ad_1] When the evenings begin to nip and the light becomes clearer than it has been for months, you know it’s pawpaw time. The…
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Mugwort Chips: An Easy Recipe Using the Herb Weed
[ad_1] In the waning days of fall, a weed that happens to be a wild herb is still growing with enough vigor to defy…
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Veldkool: A Wild South African Vegetable that Can Be Foraged in the Spring
[ad_1] There 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…
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Fall Foraging: 6 Easiest Fruits and Mushrooms to Forage in the Autumn
[ad_1] While spring and summer offer a bounty of wild food treasures, there is a cornucopia of good things to forage in fall. Fruits…
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Quick Takes With: Louesa Roebuck – Gardenista
[ad_1] We’ve been following Midwesterner by birth, Californian in spirit Louesa Roebuck for more than a decade, describing her as a “fearless forager” in…
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Chicken of the Woods: An Edible Mushroom that’s Easy to Identify and Forage
[ad_1] The first time I saw a chicken of the woods, the massive mushroom was frilling the base of a dying oak tree. It…
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Wild Lettuce: A Delicious Foraged Vegetable that Makes an Outstanding Summer Soup
[ad_1] Do you know where the wild lettuce grows? Ask a bunny. In Beatrix Potter’s eponymous tale, the Flopsy Bunnies eat too many lettuces…
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Serviceberry pie celebrates the start of summer berry season
[ad_1] Makes 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…
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How to Grow Ramps in a Pot, Plus a Recipe for Ramp Leaf Quiche
[ad_1] Above: The blind-baked pastry shell is filled with custard and ramp leaves. Ramp Leaf Quiche Makes 1 x 9-inch quiche (springform pan) Equal…
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Ground Ivy: This Pretty Weed that Grows on Lawns Is Edible
[ad_1] For months, from early spring to the edges of summer, ground ivy’s tubular blue flowers announce its (often resented) presence in sunny lawns…
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Ramp Pesto Recipe – Simply Scratch
[ad_1] In this Ramp Pesto Recipe, wild leeks (ramps), garlic, toasted pine nuts and parmesan cheese blended with olive oil and lemon juice for…
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Elm Samara: Recipes Using the Tree’s Edible, Winged Seeds
[ad_1] If there ever was a time to learn how to identify elm trees easily, it is in their brief, green samara season. Samara…
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Dandelion Recipes: Delicious Served as a Wilted Side or in a Salad
[ad_1] Seen through the critical lens of weeds, dandelions are perhaps the most familiar nuisance plant of all. Seen through the appreciative lens of…
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Edible Weeds Are Vegetables in Disguise: Here are 24 Spring Weeds to Eat
[ad_1] Spring’s edible weeds are ready to eat. But what is a weed? It’s not a new question but it bears repeating. Is a…
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Mugwort in the Spring: An Edible and Tender Delicate Herb
[ad_1] Spring is sprung, the mugwort is riz (at least in Brooklyn, New York). I wonder where the mower is? Because the first, silvery…
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The Calanques in France: A Geographical and Botanical Wonder
[ad_1] “The Calanques, a real garden of stones on the edge of the sea.” This is how the famed French rock climber and mountain…
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A Recipe for Fuki Buds: Butterburs Herald the Coming of Spring
[ad_1] Fuki is the (transliterated) Japanese name for the perennial plant butterbur. In Japan, fuki no to, the aromatic buds of butterbur, are a…
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Field Garlic Naan: A No-Knead Feral Recipe Inspired by Classic Butter Naan
[ad_1] Above: Naans in cross section: cooked in 3 minutes. Above: A trayful of hot field garlic naan, ready to be devoured. Field Garlic…