Foraging Black Locust Flowers
Tasty and nutritious, black locust flowers are only in bloom for about two weeks each spring. Here’s how to identify and harvest them, plus ideas for using! Black locust trees…
Foraging & Using Chickweed
Learn how to identify and use chickweed – a common backyard weed that’s nutritious and delicious, and can also be turned into salves for itchy skin, and more! Where &…
Identifying & Using Redbud Flowers
Learn how to identify and use Eastern redbud – a beautiful spring flowering tree that produces edible flowers! Where Redbud Grows Eastern Redbud (Cercis canadensis) is native to the eastern…
Differences Between Henbit and Purple Dead Nettle
Learn how to tell the difference between henbit and purple dead nettle, plus tips for using and eating these early spring weeds! Where to Find Henbit (Lamium amplexicaule) and purple…
How to Forage & Use Pine Resin
Learn how to forage and harvest pine resin, then use it to make a first aid salve, a decongestant balm, and a pine resin sore muscle rub! Resin is a…
Foraging Usnea Sustainably (+uses & recipes!)
Learn how to harvest and use Usnea, a gray-green forest lichen with medicinal benefits! Also includes recipes for usnea tincture, infused oil, salve, and wound powder. Usnea (Usnea spp), is…
Foraging & Using Reishi Mushrooms
Learn how to identify and harvest reishi mushrooms, plus how to dry and use for tea and tincture. Reishi’s distinctive look makes them friendly for the beginner mushroom hunter! There…
Harvesting & Drying Black Walnuts (+hull & leaf uses!)
Learn how to forage, identify, and harvest black walnuts (Juglans nigra) plus how to dry and cure the nuts, and use the hulls and leaves for remedies! ID Tips for…
Growing & Foraging Passionflower & Maypops (+ ways to use them!)
Our native passionflower (Passiflora incarnata) is a plant with many uses: it produces edible fruit called maypops, the leaves and buds have gentle calming properties, and the beautiful flowers are…
Foraging & Identifying Autumn Olive Berries (+lookalikes!)
Autumn olive (Elaeagnus umbellata), sometimes called Autumnberry, is an invasive shrub that produces loads of tangy but tasty berries each fall. When perfectly ripe, we like to eat them right…
Autumn Olive Jelly
Learn how to make delicious autumn olive jelly! The flavor is unique and hard to describe, but we think it tastes somewhat like peach or apricot, with a hint of…
Garlic Butter Chicken of the Woods Mushrooms
Fans of garlic will love this easy and yummy dish made with freshly foraged chicken of the woods mushrooms! Chicken of the woods is a choice edible mushroom, that actually…