Attention Wild Food Aficionados:
Fall foraging forges forward, and by that alliteration I mean to say that foraging for wild food “has not yet ended” this fall, so don’t put away your scissors or your plastic knives or your bare hands just yet!
Just yesterday I came across some fabulous fall dandelion greens in the Colorado high country despite its notoriously short growing season. They were growing amidst the deep, down-trodden grass at the base of willows lining an old mining road, and some were nearly as long as an arm! Up here, anywhere the miners and their mules once trod is a good place to look for dandelions. At the very least these early travelers toted the seeds along by accident. Other good places to look for fall dandelions are next to water sources in shady, protected places and any lawn in any neighborhood, provided it has not been sprayed by the owner or town/city tree-spraying operation.
. In fact, the book’s cover is adorned with a montage of fireweed flowers atop a blown-up image of a fireweed leaf, so Tilford must think highly of the plant.
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, and of course it probably goes without saying that I am finding the story inspiring, at the very least, because of my own recent forays into blogdom. Aside from that, however, I also find myself wanting to cook some of the recipes over which Julie sweats (except maybe the aspics, which require the boiling of calves’ hooves).