Foraging for Food: 10 Tips to Get You Started

Foraging wild plants in your area is a great way to shake up your culinary delights.

Don’t know where to start? Below are our best foraging posts to get you started on your hunt for wild edibles.

Foraging 101: Where to find your bounty

We’ve given you descriptions. We’ve given you recipes. We’ve given you (hopefully) inspiration to explore.

And now we’re giving you the information you need to begin foraging on your own: where to do it and how to be safe. So go forth, young foragers, and start gathering your bounty.

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Wild Edibles: 5 Tips for Beginner Foragers

Ever spotted a dandelion growing in your backyard and wondered, can I eat that? According to wild plants expert Katrina Blair, the answer is a resounding yes. And there are plenty of other commonly found weeds that fall into this category as well.

If you are new to foraging, get a few beginner tips from Katrina Blair to get you started on your hunt for wild edibles.

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Foraging and Cooking … Cattails

Chances are, you’ve seen cattails growing on the edge of your local lake or stream at least once or twice. Instead of just passing these plants, try foraging for and cooking them to create delicious seasonal dishes!

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Strong, Spicy, and Pleasant: Wild Green Kimchi

Need a new twist on kimchi? Look no further than this “wild” version from Pascal Baudar.

The ingredients and ratio change all the time depending on the time of the year. During winter months I will use mostly curly dock, dandelion, and watercress; while in Spring I’ll use mostly mustard and radish leaves. Where you live may have ramps and other delicious wild greens. Experiment with what you have!

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In Search of Wild Yeast

There is something special about being able to create an interesting drink using only hyperlocal ingredients from your own garden or the nearby wilderness.

You can taste the local terroir in every sip and take pride in knowing you have created something one-of-a-kind. 

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Ancient Fermentation: Homemade Kvass

Kvass is an ancient and beloved beverage from Slavic Eastern Europe. While it is basically a low-alcohol beer, it is enjoyed as a soft drink, even by small children. This nourishing beverage calls for just a few simple ingredients and only takes a couple of days to ferment. If you’ve got bread, water, sugar, herbs, and yeast, you are already good to go!

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How to Make Naturally Fermented Raw Soda

On your way to the store for a soda? Stop right there! Your backyard has plenty of delicious ingredients to make an all-natural soda. Pick and choose your own herbs for a custom raw soda without all the unhealthy sugars and additives.

 

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Elderflowers and Elderberries

We should just change the name of summer to elderberry season. It’s the perfect time to pick these berries (which aren’t actually berries) and make delicious jams, drinks, and sauces.

Cooking or fermenting elderberries is crucial to unlocking their flavor. 

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Foraging For Wild Strawberries

Have you ever stumbled across wild strawberries? Growing along the sunny banks and around a forest edge, along roadsides, hillsides or even in your own back yard, wild strawberries are delicious.

Wild strawberries are much smaller than those hollow, crunchy, off-season truck farm monstrosities most of us allow to pass for strawberries. 

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Mull it Over: Mulberries, Memories, and Muffins

Who doesn’t love making memories or recounting old ones? Mulberries have a special power of unlocking memories. Did you pick them as a kid? Picking them now will send you right back to your childhood.

If you’ve never picked mulberries before, they very well might be in your own backyard, or your neighbor’s, or your local park.

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