Another easy food to forage in winter, at least around here in the parts of the Eastern woodlands that are predominantly mixed forests, is the wintergreen plant. Wintergreen is a plant that grows primarily by forming colonies with massive connected underground roots that thrive in the woody duff. For our…
A few years ago when I was doing small game trapping more regularly in the late fall and winter, I would regularly enough forage in between checking traps. Even going into winter with the snowfall I’d be able to find at least a little. The main area I trapped at…
Here’s a quick tip for winter foraging: barberries are edible. Barberry is a short, thorny bush that’s been used to decoration for a long time. That’s the main reason why they’re so widespread and basically invasive. There’s a native variety, but most of what we see is the Japanese barberry…
One of the recent trends in the foodie world (which might have already waned, I never really know) was the use of a confusingly named vegetable: the jerusalem artichoke, aka the sunchoke. The name is entirely misleading, as the plant isn’t in any way an artichoke nor is it from…
