Foraging

Foraging for Ramps: 5 Rules Everyone Should Know

Maria Rodale | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Maria Rodale, Foraging for Ramps, Organic Seeds, Wild Ramps, Wild Leeks, Tim Mountz, Ramps, Maria's Farm Country Kitchen, Happy Cat Farm, Foraging, Healthy Living News

by guest blogger Tim Mountz of Happy Cat Farm This time of the year if I am not in the fields planting, I am out in the woods. I do a lot of trail-r...

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WATCH: Smokable Herbal Tea Is Real And Legal

Liza de Guia | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Remedy, Liza De Guia, Tea Blend, Skeeternyc, Natural, Liz Neves, Teas, Raganella, Food Curated, Vivid Visions, High Tea, Featured, Smokable Tea, Drink, Tea Shop, Sustainable, Green Tea, Video, Dreams, Recipes, Food, Documentary, Herbs, Foraging, Afternoon Tea, Raganella Botanical Solutions, Food News

I'm sure many of you drink tea, occasionally, as a herbal remedy or a sleep aid, but have any of you ever smoked it? Probably not. It was a first for me too.

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First-hand Food: Aiming for Self-sufficient? Do the Math.

Tamar Haspel | Posted 04.01.2012

Read More: Chickens, Gardening, Calories, Self-Sufficiency, Homesteading, Slow Food, Hunting, Foraging, Food News

If you're not growing, raising, hunting, foraging, or fishing your own food, you're behind the curve. Chickens and gardens, pigs and turkeys, rods and guns, are all showing up at the homes of what used to be milquetoast supermarket shoppers.

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Mycology Today

Laura Silverman | Posted 12.25.2011

Read More: Wild Mushrooms, Black Trumpet Mushrooms, Mushroom Recipes, Hen-of-the-Woods, Wid Mushroom Foraging, Maitake, Foraging, Mushroom Foraging, Food News

A couple of crisp nights, a new moon (or a full one) and it's fungal fever. Sadly, many people are too scared to forage, or too uncertain of what to do with their mushroom finds.

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Gathering Mushrooms in the Wild:
Eating in the Wind

Maria Rodale | Posted 12.25.2011

Read More: Wild Mushrooms, Tim Mountz, Maria Rodale's Blog, Maria's Farm Country Kitchen, Foraging, Happy Cat Farm, Mitake, Green News

by guest blogger Tim Mountz of Happy Cat Farm Webster's Dictionary says that foraging is the act of wandering in search of food. That definition mak...

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Holly Heyser: The Philosophical Huntress

Stephanie J. Stiavetti | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Women, Eating, Urban Foraging, Hunting, Vegetarianism, Spirituality, Foraging, Veganism, Healthy Eating, Food, Diet, Food News

Hunting. Just the word evokes a response in most people, whether it be excitement, curiosity, anger, sadness, or a host of other feelings.

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D.C.'s Deadly Mushrooms: What Fungi To Avoid (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Arin Greenwood | Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: DC News, D.C. Mushroom Poisoning, Georgetown University, Mushroom Poisoning, Slidepollajax, D.C., Mycological Association of Washington, Foraging, DC News

WASHINGTON -- Four D.C.-area mushroom-eaters have been hospitalized in recent weeks for eating poisonous fungi. Which leads to the question: Which mus...

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WATCH: Foraging For Morels

Daniel Klein | Posted 11.06.2011

Read More: Daniel Klein, Langdon Cook, Local, Washington, Wild Mushrooms, Perennial Plate, Cascades, Morels, Recipe, Foraging, Sustainable, Wild Food, Food News

As a Minnesotan, Morels are prized. Having been defeated this year in my home state and Iowa, left with only 1 mushroom to share between many, Washin...

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Hank Shaw On What He'd Cook For Obama And More

Stephanie J. Stiavetti | Posted 09.25.2011

Read More: Chefs, Hunting, Cooking, Food, Fishing, Hank Shaw, Foraging, Wild Food, Food News

In Hank Shaw, you'll find a passionate artist and craftsman who pours himself into every dish he creates.

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Interview With Jennifer Olvera, Author of The Food Lovers Guide to Chicago

Dana Joy Altman | Posted 09.14.2011

Read More: Chicago Food Scene, Food Lovers Guide to Chicago, Jennifer Olvera, Real Food Rehab, Books, Chicago Restaurants, Cooking, Author Interviews, Best of Chicago, Foraging, Chicago News

Jennifer Olvera has written perhaps the most up-to-date and comprehensive guide to the Chicago food scene ever written. I spoke with her recently about the making of the book and her own personal haunts in Chicago.

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The Trend Triple Threat

Jane Buckingham | Posted 09.13.2011

Read More: Carnivore Girls, Femivore?S-Dilemma, Lacma, Trends, Farmer's Markets, Soccer Moms, LA Restaurants, Ray's, Femivore, Feminism, Foraged Food, Foraging, Los Angeles News

As a trend forecaster, one of the questions I get asked most often is: "Where do you find your trends?" The answer is never easy.

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A Visit to My Kitchen: Hank Shaw, Author of Hunt, Gather, Cook

Maria Rodale | Posted 08.09.2011

Read More: Fishing, Hunting, Organic Food, Cooking, Healthy Eating, Hunt Gather Cook, Hank Shaw, Foraging, Food News

Hank Shaw is in my kitchen today, talking about a lobster obsession and a love for fisheries. Hank is a lifetime angler, forager, and more recently, hunter.

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Urban Spring Foraging: Harvesting Wild Greens in NYC Parks w/Leda Meredith, Part 1

Liza de Guia | Posted 06.21.2011

Read More: Food Videos, Dishes, Wild Greens Pesto, Skeeternyc, Fun, Vegan, Kitchen, Garden, Food Curated, Featured, Liza deGuia, Park Slope, How to Make Pesto, Recipes, Cooking, Wild Greens, Vegetables, Parks, Pesto, Food, Leda Meredith, Urban Foraging, Prospect Park, Foraging, Food News

Meet Leda Meredith, author of The Locavore's Handbook and one of New York City's most well-known urban foragers. We visited Prospect Park in Brooklyn ...

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How Mushrooms Became As American As Apple Pie

Time | Posted 06.11.2011

Read More: Mushrooms, Josh Ozersky, Hen of the Woods, Cooking, Wild Mushrooms, Morels, Foraging, American Cuisine, Food News

Fungus that grows on rot might not, at first, seem the perfect image of our culinary ideals. And yet, if there is one food that can most perfectly sym...

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How To Find Morel Mushrooms & Cook Them

Daniel Klein | Posted 05.31.2011

Read More: Mushrooms, Daniel Klein, Cooking, Local, Wild, Perennial Plate, Organic, Morels, Recipe, Foraging, Food News

It's that time of the year. There have been too many root vegetables eaten, and too many hours spent indoors, or bundled up outside to the point of n...

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Winter Mushroom Foraging

Daniel Klein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mushrooms, Daniel Klein, Chaga, Minnesota, Cooking Show, Perennial Plate, Sorbet, Sustainable, Local Food, Organic Food, Strange Food, Documentary, Tea, Sumac, Recipe, Foraging, Mushroom Foraging, Food News

Hunting season is over, there is nothing green for miles, and squash doesn't look nearly as good as it did three months ago. But there's always an obscure mushroom laying dormant out in the woods.

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RenÃƒÂ© Redzepi And David Chang Talk Noma's Dishes, Chefs As Martyrs, Foraging With Ruth Reichl

Eater.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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Yesterday evening chefs René Redzepi and David Chang appeared at The New York Public Library -- the place they shot Ghostbusters -- for a discussion ...

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Foodies Turn To Foraging To Connect With Nature

AP | JULIANA BARBASSA | Posted 05.25.2011

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- When Chef Josh Skenes first sought the flavor of Northern California, he went to local growers. Then he went beyond farms, joini...

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Walnut Season Arrives (And a Recipe for Shiitake and Wild Black Walnut "Tartare")

Kurt Michael Friese | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food, Walnuts, Urban Foraging, Shiitake Mushrooms, Cooking, Recipe, Foraging, Ohio, Recipes, Walnut Recipe, Food News

If you are fortunate enough to have one or two of these magnificent trees in your neighborhood, this is the time of year when you want to be trying to beat the squirrels to the walnuts.

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Save Money and Broaden Your Palate with Foraged Foods (RECIPE)

Kurt Michael Friese | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pesto, Food, Nettles, Urban Foraging, Garlic Mustard, Foraging, Food News

All the foodies in my neck of the woods are, well, in the woods. The two wild foods of the week are a weed and an invader -- stinging nettles and garlic mustard.

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Foraging for Wild Ramps and Incredible Flavor

David Becker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Appalachian Mountains, Wild Foraging, Ramps, Foraging, Food News

Wild ramps are a delicate plant with a strong garlic flavor. One of the last truly seasonal foods available in North America, they go by many names including wild leek, ramson, and ail de bois.

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Foraging for Bitter Greens

Maria Rodale | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Organic Food, Edible Landscaping, Foraged Food, Foraging, Healthy Living News

When I first met my in-laws almost 20 years ago, I thought it was a bit odd that they ate so much food that they "found" outside. I had never really b...

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My Morel Hunt

Rebecca Kosick | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mushrooms, Wild Foraging, Chicago, Morels, Cooking, Foraged Food, Foraging, Chicago News

Last weekend, my guide and I ventured onto someone's forested upper Midwestern property in search of morels. Those earthy, early-spring fungi so special that they sell for upwards of $40/lb.

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My Adventures in Urban Foraging

Tara Lohan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wildman-Steve-Brill, Urban Foraging, Local Food, Foraging, Iso Rabins, Steve Brill, Toddlers, San Francisco, Green News

Iso Rabins is among a growing band of urban foragers who have been sprouting through sidewalk cracks all across the country as the economy contracts and local-food movements gain popularity.

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How To Eat Roadkill

Chelsea Green | Makenna Goodman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Extreme Green, Roadkill, Eating Roadkill, Roadkill Carnivores, How to Eat Roadkill, Foraging, Green News

How broke would you have to get to eat roadkill? Don't freak out. This isn't a sensationalist necrophilic bizarre fetishized kind of thing. It's legi...

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