Recipes

Use our recipes to transform your seasonal, home-grown or wild-foraged ingredients into delicious foods and beverages! Producing and preparing as much of your own food as possible saves money and time, plus it helps you eat healthier meals with your family. Also, every time you make a new recipe, you become a better home cook!

morel mushroom and stinging nettle pasta

Which type of recipe are you looking for?

Recipe: acorn flour crepes

Breakfast

Calamondin citrus scallop aguachile recipe

lunch

Morel mushrooms with stinging nettle pasta and poached duck eggs

dinner

spiced persimmon breakfast bread recipe

dessert

Hot-brewed yaupon holly & roasted acorn flour

beverages

sides & snacks

Hibiscus coconut rice dessert recipe made with Carolina Gold rice.

gluten free

pumpkin chili recipe with ground turkey and black beans

soups & stews

Lion’s mane mushrooms (Hericium erinaceus) are gourmet mushrooms that taste like crab meat & can be easily grown or foraged. Here's how to make our favorite lion’s mane recipe: lion’s mane crab cakes!

vegetarian

fermented lemonade with honey recipe

PickleS & fermentS

preparation methods

Discover unique recipes based on the method of preparation:

Recipe: One-pot kumquat turkey roast with wild rice - savory kumquat recipe

Cooked or Baked

golden raspberry, elderflower, honey fermented cordial recipe

Ferments & Pickles

Recipe: Napa cabbage salad with Thai peanut butter dressing

Raw

turkish pogacas

Wood Fired

What season are you in?

eat seasonally!

Each season of the year offers unique culinary opportunities depending on what’s ripe for harvest from field or forest. We’ll help you discover seasonal recipes for your freshly grown or foraged ingredients here!

Spring
Summer
Fall
Winter

Recent Recipes From Our Kitchen to Yours…

recipe: pickled daylily flower buds

Pickled daylily flower buds

Pickled daylily flower buds are a simple and delicious way to enjoy edible daylilies! Have them in your fridge in less than 10 minutes!
Morel mushroom orzo recipe

Recipe: Morel mushroom orzo

Morel mushroom orzo is a simple and delicious dish that showcases the wonderful flavor of seasonal morel mushrooms! 
acorn flour pancakes / acorn pancake recipe

Fluffy acorn flour pancakes

Acorn flour pancakes are a simple and delicious breakfast recipe to help you show off the incredible flavor of cold-leached acorn flour!
shiitake mushroom and chestnut soup recipe

Chestnut and shiitake mushroom soup

Chestnut and shiitake mushroom soup combines sweet, nutty chestnuts and earthy, umami shiitake mushrooms in one pot — and it’s gluten-free!
fermented elderberry syrup

Fermented elderberry syrup

Find out how to make fermented elderberry syrup: a simple and delicious immune-boosting herbal remedy with potent antiviral properties!
chestnut crabapple mash recipe

Chestnut crabapple mash

Find out how to make chestnut crabapple mash, a delicious seasonal treat that can be eaten like mashed potatoes or sweet potatoes!
crabapple pie recipe

Crabapple maple syrup pie

Better than apple pie? This crabapple pie recipe is sweetened with maple syrup and features an organic whole wheat pastry flour crust!
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Foraging

Unlock the bounty of nature’s grocery store by learning to safely find, ID, and use edible plants and fungi growing in your bioregion.

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Gardening

Learn no-dig organic gardening, discover rare and unusual edibles, and create a wildlife sanctuary in your yard!

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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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raising geese

MJ Smith shares everything you need to know to raise domestic geese in your backyard, homestead, or small farm!

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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.

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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.

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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