by staff | Jun 18, 2023 | Foraging
Happy June, food & foraging friends! Everything grows on the rugged little island of Madeira. The subtropical island – part of an largely uninhabited archipelago – is just 34 miles long and 621 miles from mainland Portugal, yet feels a world apart. 40...
by staff | May 18, 2023 | Foraging
Happy May, food & foraging friends! What ancient wild vegetable is loved by lambs, hated by gardeners, healthier than spinach, kinship to quinoa and taller (at full height) than the average NBA player? Lambsquarters! Chenopodium album is popping up everywhere...
by staff | Apr 18, 2023 | Foraging
Happy April, food & foraging friends! It’s been a happy April indeed, pun intended, as I celebrated my 50th birthday eating my way through Cajun Country with two BFFFs (best foraging/food friends)! Crawfish etouffée, smoked boudin sausage, jalapeno crawfish...
by staff | Mar 18, 2023 | Foraging
Happy March, food & foraging friends! When folks in my workshops say they are afraid to make a mistake foraging, I encourage them to start with one common, easy to identify plant. The dandelion is one nearly everyone knows and loves or hates. It is also one of the...
by staff | Feb 18, 2023 | Foraging
Happy February, food & foraging friends! What a weird winter it has been… every year we comment on the weather being unusual in one way or another, but this DC winter truly has been extraordinary on a number of fronts. The city is on track to have one of the...
by staff | Jan 18, 2023 | Foraging
Happy January, food & foraging friends! I rang in the New Year doing my favorite thing: having food adventures! My trip to Belem, a Northern Brazilian city known as the gateway to the Amazon, was a delight to the taste buds, to the extent I gained a record five...
