Do or Die Kitchen - Wild Plants, Community, Love and Self Expression!

Chicory is a common edible and medicinal plant. Foraging for chicory is easy to do, and the leaves, flower, and root are all beneficial.

Learn to find morel mushrooms with this comprehensive guide discussing the habitats, seasons, and possible look-alikes to be aware of.

Here is a complete forager’s reference guide for finding and identifying wild rose hips and what you can do with them! They have edible uses, as well as nutritive and medicinal uses. AND….I share my recipe for rose hip syrup to use all winter! Find out how to make delicious herbal syrup for your fam

Do or Die Kitchen - Wild Plants, Community, Love and Self Expression!

Huckleberry season has arrived in Montana and we've been busy foraging and preserving huckleberries! Every year in late July, we head up to our secret huckleberry picking spot way up in the mountains. We've been

These incense bundles are made by hand, by me, from materials that I have sustainably foraged in Idaho. They are great for aromatherapy or setting a good energy in the room. There are several options available, or you can request a custom option below. The herbs most commonly used in these are: Utah Cedar/Juniper (Juniperus osteosperma) Sage Brush (Artemisia tridentata & Artemisia tripartita) Douglas Fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii)

Do or Die Kitchen - Wild Plants, Community, Love and Self Expression!

January may not be the most abundant month in a foragers calendar but there are still a few wild foods you can forage in January in the UK.

Did you know invasive garlic mustard is extremely tasty? Here's what to know about foraging and using this invasive plant, plus recipes! #foraging #invasiveplants #garlicmustard

Learn all about foraging for elderberries and elderflowers, including identifying, harvesting, look-alikes, and edible and medicinal uses!

Pineapple weed (Matricaria discoidea) is often one of the first plants a budding forager tries as a kid. It can grow just about anywhere but has a gift for growing in the most uninviting locations. That

Perfect for the beginning forager, miner's lettuce is a delicious, juicy and sweet wild green. Learn how and when to find this shade-loving green! (This post was contributed by Melissa Keyser.) The very first wild

Dock seeds are readily available in the wild, and they can be ground into a wild foraged flour with minimal preparation. While some of the foraged "flour" you can make seems a bit of a

Laced with wild Spring Ramps and Parmesan cheese, then sprinkled with Rosemary Dust, these biscuits are a savory taste delight!

Learn how to grow elderberries for food and medicine, right in your own backyard! Elderberries can be grown from cuttings, starts, or seeds.

A hot spring fed by a waterfall? It doesn't get more relaxing than this.

Learn how to identify, forage, and harvest grape hyacinth flowers with ease. Grape hyacinth (Muscari Armeniacum) is a perennial plant that produces...

On the advice of a friend, I recently purchased Sue Gregg's 2007 cookbook, Introduction to Whole Grain Baking. I'm intrigued by the idea of using sprouting and/or soaking gluten-containing grains in baking, even for the gluten-intolerant people in my family. Some people suggest that the soaking and/or sprouting can aid in the digestion of those...

Fireweed (Chamaenerion angustifolium), also known as rosebay willowherb, is an edible wild plant often found in disturbed areas. Fireweed is one of those distinctive plants that's easy to identify and plentiful around the globe. The

Do you know to prepare morel mushrooms? I'm thrilled to share our morel excitement with you, plus share ideas for eating and preserving them.

On a recent camping trip we went foraging for salal berries. These are tasty, edible wild berries that are native to the western US.

Trout Lily is a spring ephemeral that's easy to find in forests all over North America. It happens to be a wild edible plant that is useful blossom to root. Spring ephemerals are some of

While there are many herbs and wild edibles that you can find out in the country, there are lots of edible plants and herbs in your own backyard.

Learn to find morel mushrooms with this comprehensive guide discussing the habitats, seasons, and possible look-alikes to be aware of.

Wild Leeks, also known as Ramps (Allium tricoccum) are a favorite of foragers in the Northeast, and they often make their way into farmer's market stands throughout the region. Learn how to find, identify and

How to find WILD ASPARAGUS! A complete guide on how to hunt and forage for wild asparagus in the spring!

Montana is home to majestic mountains, big skies, and everything huckleberry. While they look a bit like a blueberry, huckleberries have a distinct taste.

It's that time of year to go foraging for blackberries, the ultimate plant for beginning foragers with tasty berries and medicinal leaves.

Don't get stumped by the Fools' Morel this April Fools' Day! How to hack your brain to find the mushrooms and information you're looking for.

Multiple gemstones are found in the state of Idaho ranging from fire opals in the Southeast to star garnets in Northern Idaho.

Let's go foraging for Oregon Grape, an amazing native wild edible, fermentable, and medicinal plant!

From ferns to trees, roots to fruits, native plants to the many introduced exotics, this guide uncovers the edible wild foods and healthful herbs of Idaho. Helpfully organized by families, with a guide for each environmental zone, the book is an authoritative guide for nature lovers, outdoorsfolks, and gastonomes.

Spring beauty (Claytonia virginica, C. caroliniana, and other Claytonia sp.) is a delicious edible wild plant that appears on the forest floor each spring. All parts of spring beauty are edible, from the sweet succulent

Just about everyone knows what ginger looks like and that it's a tropical plant. Before modern international trade, fresh ginger was a real treat. Early colonists in the US found a tasty substitute that that

What you may not realize as you’re hoeing or pulling weeds, is that although it may look like just another stubborn invader, hairy bittercress actually has a pungent, peppery flavor and many uses in t

Pine bark cookies happened more or less by accident in my kitchen. I know, you say, how can you just happen to make pine bark cookies? Well, let me explain. I had this idea to make

Today, I'd like to continue our conversation about mullein, aka Verbascum thapsus.By now, you know how to iden

A simple ramp pasta to make the most out of the ultra seasonal ingredient.

Elecampane (Inula helenium) is a perennial herb that grows wild around the world. It'd been used for generations as a flavoring and condiment, and it's still used to make absinthe in Europe. Herbalists know it as

Mushroom foraging is known to be an autumn activity, but that's not entirely true. There are countless species of edible mushrooms that can be found at