I love Alexis's enthusiasm and zest for life! She's a great source of knowledge when it comes to foraged foods.

I'd forgotten that the bean pods from the Honey Locust tree were edible, I was reminded of this fact! It's good to know something of this nature...Foraging wild foods in a sustainable way will certainly help out in these tough times.

https://youtube.com/shorts/TpcGzMjVb4E

#Foraging #WildFoods #TheBlackForager

De la joieta de llibre "Cocina bellotera para la era postpetrolera" de César Lema.

(Si el compreu, feu-ho directament a l'autor, perquè hi ha gent venent-ne còpies sense el seu permís)

#quercus #silvestrescomestibles #cuinasilvestre #acorn #bellota #roure #alzina #edibleperennials #edibleplants #cocinabellotera #wildfoods

Two products from #PortAlberni #VancouverIsland #WildFoods crafting #SmallBusiness - #ForestForDinner.

[ Forest for Dinner is a #wildcrafting company founded in 2015 by husband and wife Benjamin Patarin and Célia Auclair. We bring high-quality wild food products harvested from the wilderness of Vancouver Island into the retail space and local food and beverage industry. Our company is built upon a shared love of nature, wild food, and decades of experience foraging all over the world.

“We’re wild about foraging nourishing, world-changing foods.” ]

https://forestfordinner.ca/

I went across the valley to do a little garden work and found a carpet of young purslane where I needed to weed. t’s a great wild salad green! I brought a bunch home.

I think this photo would make a fantastic background for a jigsaw puzzle.

#gardening #wildfoods #purslane

Is Chenopodium ficifolium, aka Figleaf Goosefoot, any different for culinary use than Lamb's Quarters (C. album)?

I've got a bunch of it growing in the garden and I'm thinking about cooking it up.

#foraging #eattheweeds #gardening #weeds #lambsquarters #wildfoods

WILD FOODS OF TASMANIA…
We are up in the subalpine zone of Mt Field National Park and the mountain pinkberry is in fruit.

Mountain pinkberry is one of the edible berries that make their home in the often-chilly heights of Tasmania's mountains. But you don't have to walk into the mountains to find it… you can grow out where you live by finding a Tasmanian plants nursery that stocks the shrub.

READ THE PLANT NOTE HERE: https://medium.com/permac.../mountain-pinkberry-55a0baa6bc85?
#tasmania #wildfoods #bushfoods #plantsoftasmania #permaculture #permaculturelife

Kinnickinnick flowers (don't you just love the name?) at Beaver Creek, SK. Also known as bear berries (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi). The fruit are edible but unappealing.

#kinnickinnick #bearberry #yxe #nativeflowers #wildfoods

I invented this very cheap and simple recipe today!

Stinging nettles are surprisingly tasty! The young leaves kinda taste like spinach and can be used as such. Like most edible "weeds" it is very high in vitamins and minerals, plus it has protein.

I find them so rich in flavour that I don't need extra herbs to go with them, salt is enough to season the nettle meal. Though a spritz of lemon juice really brings out the flavour!

This is more a formula of how to make the soup/stew, since I don't have exact measurements — just eyeball it! It's soup after all. You can also add other stuff you have on hand or swap out the carrots.

Ingredients:
- bunch of stinging nettles
- potatoes
- carrots
- salt
- optional spices like pepper, onion, garlic, lemon juice
- cooking oil
- whatever else you have on hand

1. Pick a bunch of stinging nettle tops and small leaves (avoid the tougher stems and older leaves). You can wear gloves or be adventurous like me and do it barehanded
2. If you pour boiling water over the nettles, they'll lose their sting
3. Cut as many potatoes as you want to eat into bitesize pieces
4. Cut some carrots into slices (I used about half as many as potatoes by volume, but this is super flexible)
5. Put the potatoes and carrots in a pot with boiling water and salt and boil
6. You can add pepper, onions, garlic (fresh, frozen or powdered) and a bit of lemon juice for extra flavour (optional)
7. Add a generous amount of cooking oil — we want this to fill us up after all!
8. Rip or cut the nettles into bite size bits and add to the soup
9. cook until potatoes are done, stir occasionally

Bon Appetit!

#cooking #food #recipe #WeedEating #WildeNahrung #foraging #WildFood #WildFoods