(05-17-2021, 08:24 PM)echo_blini Wrote:

(05-17-2021, 08:06 PM)Jiggly Wrote:

(05-17-2021, 07:53 PM)echo_blini Wrote: I forage for mushrooms, fruit, tea herbs, and nuts mostly. On mother's day I found over half a pound of morels and just about as much pheasant back mushrooms, a bunch of motherwort and garlic mustard. When the prairie flowers start blooming, I'm going to be collecting a lot of honeysuckle flowers, bee balm, selfheal, yarrow, and bramble berries. In the autumn, I'll be on the lookout for autumn olives, hickory nuts, hazelnuts, and black walnuts. I feel like foraging and hacking have a common attitude towards personal freedom, to be able to acquire food or information freely off the beaten bath, literally and figuratively, is an important value to me.

What a lovely way to live. The most I've ever foraged is local berries and fruits. I can't say I've had much teaching by way of natural/local resources. It would be lovely to learn more about it. Do you cook a lot/make stuff as a result of your foraging?

Absolutely, that's half the fun! I haven't made anything too elaborate recently, but I do like to use my foraged food as ingredients in dishes I cook. I put some garlic mustard in my bulgar and ate that with those morels sauteed in butter with asparagus for example.