How to be a better Forager

It’s spring time. Foraging season is just around the corner! And most of you are going to make the single biggest mistake new foragers make year after year. You’ve been reading all winter, you’ve got ideas of foraging an entire meal and stocking your medicine cabinet with wild remedies, and a list about three pages […]

Most Delicious Cookies Ever to Hit Your Mouth!

Ingredients – 1 cup butter, softened – 1 cup white sugar – 1 cup packed brown sugar – 2 tbsp real maple syrup – 1 teaspoons vanilla extract – 2 eggs – 1 teaspoon baking soda – 2 teaspoons warm tap water – 1/2 teaspoon coarse salt – 2 and 1/2 cups all-purpose flour – […]

Acorns – An Overlooked Food Source

Its fall. And once again, one of the most readily available, easy to gather food sources is going completely ignored by most of you adventurers out there! Acorns are all over the place. And this year is a mast year, meaning the crop of acorns is at a cyclical peak. Acorns are the fruiting product […]

Grapes, an easy wild edible

One of the easiest, and according to my girlfriend, most enjoyable, wild edibles to harvest is grapes! Vitus Riparia is growing wild all around us. And once you start looking for it, you’ll start to see it everywhere. I have harvested wild grapes all the way up in the northern Minnesota woods, along the […]