Foraging
Why forage in a modern world? Foraging helps you intimately connect to your unique bioregion, learning the lifecycles and seasonality of wild plants and fungi. You’ll also be able to enjoy delicious foods you’ll never see in a grocery store or restaurant. But before you start, you need to learn the safety rules and develop a deep respect for the organisms and ecosystems you’ll be foraging in. Responsible foraging is not extractive; it’s minimally impactful or even regenerative in its ecosystem effects.
Explore the foraging topics you’re interested in:
When are you foraging?
FORAGE year round!
Seasonal foraging resources to help you find, identify, and safely use wild plants and fungi throughout the year:
Explore Recent Foraging Posts
Mimosa flower ice cream (Albizia julibrissin)
How to make acorn flour the best way – with video!
Crabapple butter (maple syrup sweetened)
How to use American beautyberries as food and mosquito repellent
Crabapple maple syrup pie
Crabapple hand pies – maple sweetened & whole wheat!
Aronia: how to grow or forage the world’s highest antioxidant fruit
Chanterelle mushroom guide: how to forage and use
American wild black cherry chilled soup (inspired by meggyleves)
Recipe: Fermented wild black cherry cordial (Prunus serotina)
Honeysuckle ice cream – a child’s dream come true
Native passion fruit (Passiflora incarnata): How to grow, forage & eat
Spruce tips and immature cones: how to ID, harvest, and eat
Check out some of our other categories below
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gardening
Learn no-dig organic gardening, discover rare and unusual edibles, and create a wildlife sanctuary in your yard!
recipes
Discover recipes to transform your foraged or garden-fresh ingredients into healthy, gourmet, homemade meals and beverages!
raising ducks
Find out if ducks are the right animal for you, and learn everything you need to know to raise happy, healthy pet and backyard ducks!
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The Impractical Guide to Raising Ducks
How to joyously produce the world’s most expensive eggs from the world’s most adorable animals
The Impractical Guide to Keeping Pet & Backyard Ducks isn’t just a detailed how-to guide for raising happy, healthy, long-lived ducks. It’s also a humorous and heartfelt rethink on how and why backyard poultry enthusiasts should raise ducks in the first place — and a call to action to do it better, for the sake of people, poultry, and planet.
Duck Keepers Corner
Duck Keeper’s Corner is a vodcast dedicated to providing clear, honest, and experience-based information for pet and backyard duck keepers.
Episode 1: Pros and cons of owning ducks – or being owned by ducks.
Featured guest: Melanie from Ducks of Providence (and Hertha the duck, above)
Episode 2: Muscovy Ducks vs. Mallard-derived ducks.
Featured guest: Hannah from Raising Ducks (and Snow the Muscovy, above)
Episode 3: Coming Soon!
Featured guest: TBD