Podcast: Episode 421, Wild Edibles with the Wild Food Girl
Justin and Collin chat with Erica Davis, aka The Wild Food Girl about all things wild edibles. They chat about wild fruit candies, pine sap gum, dandelion root coffee, dandelion jam, pinon nut milk, seasonal foraging, Christmas ketchup, recommended references, chewing gum history, and so much more!
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Special Guest:
Erica Davis: has a wealth of knowledge about harvesting food from the wild. She has spent more than a decade studying plants in and foraging the Rocky Mountain region. She founded the blog Wild Food Girl in 2010 and from 2013 to 2015 published a digital magazine called Wild Edible Notebook. She has a background in education and teaches courses on edible, medicinal and toolcraft plant identification.
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Show Notes:
Calendar of Supper Club classes
Harvesting Nature Magazine
Spice Blends
Taste testing wild edibles
What’s in Erica’s refrigerator now
Rocky Mountain Bee plant pickles
Dandelion jam and prickly pear jam
berries found in the Rockies vs berries found in other areas
Christmas Ketchup
The different biomes for wild edibles in the Rockies
Different plants at different times of the year
Spring: roots and greens
Summer: shoots vegetables, stalks, wild mint
Period of rapid growth is key
Follow the growth as the elevation changes
Pinon nut milk
Winter foraging
Ethnobotany: http://naeb.brit.org/
Erica’s recipes
Article about DNA from Birch Pitch
Why did we start chewing gum
Tom Elpel: Foraging the Mountain West
