Wild Food Foraging

Forage, Cook and Eat Wild Foods!
Wild foods recipes, herbal home remedies, foraging tips and more…

Why would you want to eat wild foods? Because they are delicious and nutritious!

They are even more delicious when you have great recipes. We’ll even have wild game recipes as well.

Also, making your own herbal home remedies is also a great way to increase your health as you build connection to your local place.

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Herbal Home Remedies: Herbal Vinegars – Part 2

Aromatic Delights from your Garden Part One of this article explained herbal vinegars’ many potent qualities as herbal home remedies, and reviewed the basic tools and simple process of making herbal vinegars. A journey into the author’s garden illustrated how we can reap nature’s rewards and harvest numerous herbs for herbal vinegars. Now, we get [...]

Herbal Home Remedies: Herbal Vinegars – Part 1

Aromatic Delights from your Garden A pantry full of herbal vinegars is a constant delight. Preserving fresh herbs and roots in vinegar is an easy way to capture their nourishing goodness. It’s easy too. You don’t even have to have an herb garden. BASIC HERBAL VINEGAR Takes 5 minutes plus 6 weeks to prepare. You [...]

Seaweed Recipes: Kelp Energy Bars

We found ourselves making these energy bars so much this time last year, we thought it would be the perfect recipe to share with you. Kelp energy bars are easy to make, and the perfect snack for the colder months when your body craves more nutrient dense foods.  They also make a great holiday treat. [...]

Herbal Tea Remedies: Water Based Preparations

In your herbal pharmacy you transform fresh and dried plants into herbal medicines, and making herbal tea remedies are a great way to do this. Learning to identify and use the common plants around you is easy and exciting, beneficial and safe. Making your own medicines saves you money if you follow the Wise Woman [...]

Dandelion Tea Recipe

It’s that time of year again: The time when I dream of eating a hearty bowl of venison-chanterelle stew. And while we’re at it, let’s add some homemade bread and a mug of dandelion tea. Now, this isn’t a stew that came from a can or one of those soymilk-looking containers. This is a stew [...]

Wild Blackberries

Today is a wonderfully wet, moist, Northwest Washington kind of day.  The kind of day when you feel the calling to be outside with your hands in the earth.  The gardening season is getting started in some areas of the country, readying the beds, trimming the trees, and planning what your yard and gardens will [...]

Edible Weeds: Herbal Medicine Chest in Your Backyard

Don’t kill, spray, tear up, or destroy the weeds in your garden, yard, and fence rows. Many of them are actually highly-regarded, widely-used, and extremely-valuable medicinal herbs! What could be easier than growing an herb garden with no effort? Of course, you’ll have to harvest your edible weeds, but you would do that anyhow: it’s [...]

Photo by Filip Tkaczyk

Survival Foods: Edible Wild Plants

How Do I Know What Plants Are Safe to Eat? I know the sap is running in the trees and bushes. They spring back when I snowshoe over them trying to negotiate around a downed tree. The ground is not frozen and it’s only a matter of a few short weeks before all the baby [...]

Photo by Sunny Savage

Dock Recipe: Yellow Dock Seed Crackers

For us living in the Northern Hemisphere, the earth is now in a time of hibernation. As the earth begins this season, it is common to look onto the browning landscape with a longing for a more plentiful period. But, there are actually many plants now bursting with abundance and ready for harvesting. Dock, of [...]

Photo by Emily Gibson

Rose Hip Recipe

As we journey through fall and into winter and the earth gets ready to cover herself in an ever growing blanket of snow, we often forget that there are still wonderful wild edibles to explore. One of my favorites is the rose hip, the crimson colored fruit of the rose. It stands out, illuminated against [...]