A very tedious harvest but so worth the work! For such a tiny little berry, it is packed with big flavour. Wild strawberries are a low growing perennial found in meadows, yards, and other grassy areas. Berries grow much better in places where the grass around it isn’t growing too tall so it doesn't choke them out. These plans like to grow beside woodland trails and in grassy areas mixed with moss. The plants look like cultivated strawberries, but they are much smaller, with s

A detailed look at some of the most common edible plants, fruits, nuts, trees and seeds that you can eat while out in the wild.

With this video, learn how to safely identify 5 plants in Spring and early Summer, along with some useful tips for new foragers.

In my recently published book (Boulder Publications, 2020), I talk about harvesting a range of berries, including blueberries, wild blackberries, bakeapple, cranberry, snowberry, crowberry, dewberry, dogberry, northern wild raisin, and partridgeberry. The book also includes wonderful recipes from the many chefs with whom I have worked. For starters here, let’s pay tribute to the wonderful fruit, known in western Canada as saskatoon, but locally called chuckley pear. What is I