The Curious Wildcrafter

08/05/2024

My view for the next couple of days!

09/10/2023

Cranberry patch

09/06/2023

Got some lobsters on the weekend. So good!

08/28/2023

Great day yesterday foraging for mushrooms.

03/26/2023

Sweet chores on Sunday! (I'll let you know how many liters of maple syrup I get)

03/21/2023

Does anyone grow sweet potatoe?

03/20/2023

Boiling the carcass of a 34lb turkey with a glass of chaga tea and dreaming of spring!

10/18/2022

Coprinus comatus -Shaggy Mane

This cylindrical, shaggy-scaly, white cap mushroom is fruiting now!!
This mushroom is a member of the Inky Cap Family, so as the mushroom ages its gills liquify and turn to ink. The gills are free or nearly so, very crowded; white. The stalk is 2-8 inches long, about 1/2 in think, white and hollow. Spore print is black.

This is a choice mushroom. Gather when white, and it is often abundant. Cook right away as this mushroom is delicate and will not last. Fragile as this mushroom is, it has the remarkable ability to push up through asphalt.

09/05/2022

Took a tour yesterday and found an amazing patch of wild cranberries. They won't be ready for a few more weeks. For now I will settle for lobster.

08/02/2022

Going camping with my favorite sister

07/24/2022

Love getting free greens from my garden. Lamb's Quarters are one of the the earliest greens and they are sweet!

05/10/2022

These are 3 easily mixed up early spring plants. Ground Ivy, Purple Dead Nettle and Henbit. Great article to help distinguish the differences between them. All three are edible and can be used medicinally.

These are very common. Chances are you will see these around your home, on your lawn or maybe your neighbors.

If you want to learn more, join me on one of my spring foraging tours! Pm me for details.
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There are three plants which usually arise and bloom in late winter and early spring. They tend to be confused in their identification since the flowers are similar in color, the leaves seem to be the same shape and size, and the height of the plants are nearly the same. Let’s look closely at each...

05/08/2022

Here is a great visual for those looking to forage for Fiddleheads (Ostrich Fern)
The Ostrich Fern is a native plant from the Eastern woodlands. Unfurling in a fiddlehead shape, it gets its name from the open plumes that resemble ostrich feathers. Like most ferns, this one prefers a cool, moist spot and will spread and thrive in any wet, shady area. A notably graceful plant. (Matteuccia struthiopteris).

Take a walk along a stream, where it floods its banks in the spring.

Boil it for 10-15 mins and top it with a little butter and spot of vinegar. Enjoy!!

05/07/2022

Found a few morels, only picked a couple!

05/03/2022

I love a cup of labrador tea before bed.

Leduc groenlandicum- is a very hardy small evergreen shrub that prefers moist to wet peaty soils, especially in bogs and wet coniferous forests.

This plant is also known as woolly tea, tundra tea, and settler's tea.

04/22/2022

Looking forward to spring foraging! Enjoying a stinging nettle, raspberry and mint tea on a rainy afternoon.

04/04/2022

04/01/2022

Spring Foraging Tour Schedule

May 3, 2022 6-7pm Mapleton Park Moncton
May 7,2022 10-11am Centennial Park, Moncton
May 10, 2022 6-7 Mapleton Park, Moncton
May 12, 2022 10-11am Centennial Park, Moncton
May 14, 2022 10-11 Mapleton Park, Moncton
May 15, 2022 1-2pm Mapleton Park
May 17, 2022 6-7pm Mapleton Park, Moncton

03/25/2022

Great news! After a warm and cozy winter hibernation, I am awake and excited to go for a walk with you! Shoot me a message with what you would like to learn about or when you like to walk.

Schedule will be available within a week!

Picture is our home in Monteagle under the starry sky.

10/11/2021

09/10/2021

Someone else is preparing for winter

09/05/2021

foraging for mushrooms!

07/29/2021

Linden trees

07/09/2021

Breakfast!

07/07/2021

Love morning walks!

07/04/2021

Brisket provided by our favorite neighbor! Stinging nettle and whipped potatoes and garlic King bolete mushrooms. AMAZING!

07/04/2021

Great day!

06/26/2021

Stinging nettle pasta. Incredibly delicious!

06/22/2021

Fiddlehead, stinging nettle soup. Looks plain but tastes amazing!

03/21/2021

Great trail!! Lots of possible edibles! Still lots of snow.