Chickory root is a wonderful addition to coffee. You can spend extra money at the grocery store for fancy coffee with chickory added. Or you can harvest it yourself for free. As a bonus, roasting chickory root smells wonderful. The…
Category: What’s In Season
What can you harvest today in southern Michigan? And what can you do with it? These short posts are designed to let you know what is available right now in our area. You can see exactly what current conditions are because the pics are taken on the day they are posted. So keep up with What’s In Season right here.
Finding the Plants (and Mushrooms) You Want
Do you keep reading and hearing about a plant or mushroom, but you just can’t seem to find it for yourself? Here’s a video with some tips for increasing your chances of finding the wild edibles you want. Want to…
Pine Pollen Crackers
It’s pine pollen season, so get out and shake your trees. It’s easy enough to collect pine pollen by shaking the male cones in a Ziploc bag. You can collect a tablespoon or so in less than 10 minutes. But…
This Week’s Woodland Grocery Specials
This week I have 2 videos for you guys. The first one is about finding the elusive morel, and the second talks about the feared, but coveted, stinging nettle. Morels are a favorite of many foragers. Yes, they taste great.…
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Maples: How to tap and make sugar
Every year people ask about maples: how to tap them, how to boil down the sap, and how to make the syrup into sugar. So I made a 3 part video that covers the basics. Part 1: Tapping (at the…
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