#wildfoods — Public Fediverse posts

Looking forward to this one! Erica is great. Hoping for some tips on how to get there before the squirrels. https://wildfoodgirl.com/2026/processing-acorns-into-food/ #foraging #wildfoods #acorns

Another one from the archives

I never knew much about haskaps until recently. They weren't in my rotation. Do you forage fro them?

https://www.nordicprairiekitchens.ca/recipesandroots/haskaps-on-the-canadian-prairies

#Haskap #HaskapBerries #CanadianPrairies #PrairieFood #PrairieHistory #FoodHistory #IndigenousKnowledge #IndigenousFoodways #SeasonalEating #Foraging #WildFoods #CanadianFood #LocalFood #PrairieLiving #FoodHeritage #SustainableFood #NativePlants #CanadianAgriculture

Experienced mushroomers only.

Don't guess, don't use AI, don't look them up. I am quite capable of doing those things myself.

I want people with actual knowledge and experience only to answer this.

What are these?

#Mushrooms #Morels #FalseMorels #Foraging #WildFoods #Fungi #FungiFriday

There's nothing quite like a cloudless non sprayed day. I foraged some wild gorse flowers, went frolicking in a meadow, bumped into a lovely lady and her giant dog, walked Barefoot, whistled back to birds as though we were in delightful conversation and just was...☀️
#forage #wildflowers #wildfoods #nature #health #life #sun

Visiting big Auntie with Mom before heading off to set up for UVIC Campus Community Garden Spring Market. Auntie's husband harvested oysters & sea snails with his friend, late last night. I haven't had sea snails in almost a decade. We eat them with 2 different dipping sauces - nuoc cham sauce with lemon & garlic butter sauce.

#Seafood #shellfish #oysters #SeaSnails #Food #SeafoodHarvest #WildFoods #VancouverIsland #PNW #SalishSeaFoods #AsianMastodon

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/

Okay, so, has anyone ever eaten a cicada? Do they taste like shrimp, clams, oyster?
#foraging #wildFoods #insects #whatOtherTagsYouTellMeINeedToKnow

Here’s a baby purslane. A tasty wild salad green when young. I haven’t noticed them flowering before. I’m going to pay more attention because I’m curious about how their seed dispersal mechanisms work. They seem to find new soil I haven’t mulched very quickly!

#gardening #purslane #wildfoods

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

today, I be do EXPERIMENT from garden:

I be pluck some stinging nettle tops and small leaf, and make food from! (I also dig out as much of root as can, because is part of garden we want be able walk barefoot. is soooooo many root! very tenacious plant)

I not put picture of food, because look ugly. but taste good! 😋🍃

I wash nettle, then boil a bit. now no longer sting!
then I cut into small bits. if have blender, I be blend, but not have. I add salt, pepper, garlic powder, lots oil and little lemon juice (the cheap one from plastic lemon). I also add crushed sunflower seeds. I use mortar and pestle, because not have no blender. but it ok, it more work, but I be like have some small crunchy bit still. like crunchy peanut butter, but sunflower!

is be like pesto, only be differ. I be eat together of pasta.

is very nommy! Nam! 😋

#gardentooting #nettles #StinginNettles #perennials #wildFood #WildFoods #WeedEating

🐼 The climate conscious bandit eats leaves and shoots! 🔫🍃🌳

some reasons for eating tree leaves (and using trees for staple crops too):
🌳 yummy! 😋
🌳 can forage wild for free 🕊️
🌳 connect to nature 💚
🌳 very nutritious - leaves of woody plants are on average much higher in key nutrients than annual vegetables 🥗
🌳 woody plants, especially trees, sequester carbon! ⤵️
🌳 they improve soil health and reduce erosion 🪱
🌳 climate resilience 🌍
🌳 trees are more resilient to fluctuating weather and climate conditions than annual crops 🌥️
🌳 they're better at soaking up and storing rain - important with increasingly unpredictable rainfalls 💦
🌳 increase water quality 💧
🌳 habitat 🐦
🌳 pollination 🐝 🦋
🌳 less susceptible to diseases and pests, especially in diverse systems (not monocrops) 🐞
🌳 reduced need for pesticides ☠️
🌳 they provide shade ☂️
🌳 less labour intensive 🏖️
🌳 great diversity, increases biodiversity and diversity of foods 🌈
🌳 they promote longterm thinking and concern for the ecosystem 🧓🤝👶
🌳 can be important culturally, especially to indigenous peoples 🧑‍🌾
🌳 there are species suitable to all climates and conditions where food is grown 🏜️ ❄️ ⛰️ 🌲

🧵 for some temperate examples off the top of my head

#climate #nutrition #agriculture #FoodForest #FoodForests #vegetables #veggies #permaculture #tree #trees #perennial #perennials #PerennialGarden #foraging #WeedEating #WildFoods

Coral tooth #fungus with #mosses on a log.
This #fungi is in same family as lions mane.
It's #edible & #medicinal #mushroom.

Found in #Wsanec forest.

More info on this fungus:

https://healing-mushrooms.net/archives/hericium-coralloides.html

https://foragerchef.com/hericium-mushrooms/

#Nature #WildFoods #EdibleMushrooms #Saanich #VictoriaBC #YYJ #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #FungiFriday #ForestFinds

Good year for persimmons! The wild trees are laden this year, branches breaking under the weight of fruit.

Within weeks, critters like opossums, raccoons, and others will strip them bare. There's a short window when we can forage before they're all gone. If you get them before they're ripe, they're so astringent your mouth will pucker so bad you can't swallow.

We use them in chutney, and bread pudding, a sort of wet and gooey banana bread.

#Photography
#RuralSouth
#wildfoods

https://tessiaeksspace.wordpress.com/2024/08/04/what-to-forage-in-august-blackberries/

Did a blog post on blackberries. I was going to write the entire document on what to forage in August but this is just what I have so far so why not post it. Another post about some other wild fruit in the next few days.

Idk I'll eventually complete the whole thing at some point this month. Read it if you wish.

#forage #foraging #wild #wildlife #wildfoods #nature

#CauliflowerMushroom - #SparassisCrispa.
One of my fave #edible & #medicinal #WildMushrooms. It's found in many places around the world, including forests on #VancouverIsland.
We #forage for these wild #mushrooms & use it in making some soups & stir fry dishes.

It's used often in #traditional #Chinese #medicine #TCM because it contains active #pharmacological ingredients. In order to study its medicinal value better, the genomic sequence of S. crispa was published in Oct 2018.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6207663

Dry weight of the #basidiocarp was found to contain up to 43.6% #BetaGlucan, which was approved for the treatment of #cancer in #Japan & recommended for #COVID19 patients to overcome #inflammation.

Experiments suggest that S. crispa contains chemicals that may stimulate the #ImmuneSystem & has many #biological properties including: #AntiTumor, #antiviral activity (reverse transcriptase inhibitory activity), #neuroprotection, #cardioprotection, #AntiInflammation, #hyperlipidemia, #AntiDiabetic medication, #antimicrobial compounds, & methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus #MRSA.

#ForestForaging #MushroomsMedicine #FoodFromTheForest #WildFoods #VanIsle #Wsanec #Saanich #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #MushroomsMonday #LookReadLearn #AsianMastodon

It's that time again. #Foraging #WildFoods #Milkweed

https://outoftheearth.wordpress.com/2014/08/06/foragers-casserole-easy-veganvegetarian/

#Thimbleberries & #salmonberries #yummy #WildBerries #snacks ☺️

#Summer #berries #VancouverIsland #WildFoods #NativeBerries #PacificNorthwest #VanIsle #PNW #Foraging

#PacificSilverweed is abundant throughout #PNW into Alaska & Arctic. Longtime important #FoodSource for #PacificNorthwest #Indigenous peoples. In BC, patches of them were protected under #potlatch #FirstNations family law.

You can note patch locations when flowers appear & then dig up roots in late Fall & Winter. The roots taste like bitter sweet potatoes.

#nature #VictoriaBC #VanIsle #GetOutside #CoastalPlants #YYJ #Cascadia #WildFoods #FoodForagers #PlantIdentification #FlowersIdentification

First #IndianPlums spotted.
The #berries eaten in small quantities - fresh, cooked or dried. Some #BritishColumbia #FirstNations made a purgative tonic out of the bark. Their crushed leaves smell like cucumbers.

Good soil-binding qualities on moist sites. Possible #BioEngineering species (Washington State Department of Ecology, 1993).

#OemleriaCerasiformis #NativePlants #WildFoods #osoberry #chokecherry #QuicksBottom #Nature #VancouverIsland #VictoriaBC #VanIsle #PNW #PlantIdentification

The #clams are done! These are butter & manilla clams. Harvested in BC coastal waters by my Indigenous friends from 2 Wsanec First Nations ❤️

#seafood #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #food #BritishColumbia #FoodFromTheSea #shellfish #WildFoods #PNW #WestcoastFood

From left to right, on stone beach - red lentil humus with Nori powder as well as some cats tongue pesto swirled thru, crackers made from chia/flax, pumpkin seeds and dried kelp as well as a big pot of tea w kelp, spruce tips.

#WildFoods #VancouverIsland #PNW #allNatural wild edible goodness.
#Westcoast #PacificNorthwest #SurvivalFoods #SelfSufficiency

My friend, Tom, is a private #gourmet chef & he also teaches about #WildFoods #foraging, harvesting from wild nature & cooking with wild foods. He taught a seaweed #ForagingWorkshop recently, at Whiffin Spit.

Check out his website, for info on past & upcoming events. Next #EducationalWorkshop is in late June - Cooking In Nature.

https://natureschef.ca

#VancouverIsland #SeaweedForaging #seaweed #VanIsle #Tsouke #LearnToForage #FoodForaging #PacificNorthwest #SalishSea #PNW #WildSurvival

I have so many questions for Euell Gibbons.

#Foraging #WildFoods

OTD in 2018:

Tim: "You want to shower first?"

Me: "This guy on Facebook is mansplaining to me about how you have to blanch milkweed before eating it."

Tim: "Say no more, I'll take the first shower."

#milkweed #mansplaining #forager #WildFoods
#EuellGibbonsProbablyPickedDogbaneOops #FBMemories

Cook your wild mushrooms, folks. Especially morels. They're safer and they taste better cooked anyway. Yes, there's a lot we don't know about our wild edible fungi, but this outbreak in Montana shouldn't be a massive surprise. It's happened before.

Three people were hospitalized and two died.

#mushrooms #WildFoods #foraging

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/03/deadly-morel-mushroom-outbreak-highlights-big-gaps-in-fungi-knowledge/

I need to write an introduction for my new colleagues, and my main question is whether it should contain the line, "Ask me about eating #milkweed."🌱

#WildFoods #Foraging

Went #foraging out in the #dunes of the #ProvinceLands, to a place that in the past has reliably had later season #BeachPlums.....and, nada, none, not even old drops, as if the very healthy looking bushes just produced no fruit this year. I've seen that happen a time or two in the past. So, quick side trip to get enough #cranberries for the next two breakfasts. #WildFoods #Ptown #Provincetown #NationalSeaShore

Hey #PacificNorthWest people! Do any of you know how to #cultivate #salal ? Or how to best clean and process the #berries ? I have some questions.

#harvest #foraging #DecolonizeYourFood #LocalPlants #IndigenousPlants #EatLocal #WildFoods

Day two of razor clamming was ridiculously better than day one. From pouring rain, 30mph winds and one clam to 5mph, barely any rain, and 30 clams between two people. Now, after shower, sleep and a frantic day of catch-up work, we (unironically this time) eat like kings.
#PNW #WildFoods #SoDirty #SoTired #SmellLikeClams #BurnMyClothes

#Morel cluster for #FotoMontag #PhotoMonday #Mushrooms #Foraging #WildFoods #Photography