Episode 110: 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! - Leave a Review for a chance to win a hat! - Love our content? Buy us a cup of coffee to say thanks! - Learn to Cook Wilder with the Harvesting Nature Supper Club’s cooking classes 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.  Follow Erica on Instagram @wild.food.girl Follow Wild Food Girl on Facebook  The Wild Food Girl Website Show Notes: Calendar of Supper Club classes Harvesting Nature Magazine Spice Blends Taste testing wild edibles  Oregon Grape 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  pfaf.org Ethnobotany: http://naeb.brit.org/   Erica's recipes Wild jelly candies Wild chewing gum Article about DNA from Birch Pitch Why did we start chewing gum Dandelion coffee Sam Thayer books Cattail Bob Seebeck  Tom Elpel: Foraging the Mountain West  Brianna Wild Mountain States Foraging  Erica's class schedule Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices