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Wild Harvests: January 2014
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Wild food experiments and personal foraging accounts from the Pacific Northwest centering on Northwest Washington and Southern Vancouver Island. Friday, January 10, 2014. Evaporating salt into darkness. Katrina and I made some more salt with our friends Paul and Eli out on Lummi Island. We stayed up into the night to finish and I took some fun photographs. Long time readers may remember our early methods. Posted by T. Abe Lloyd. Saturday, January 4, 2014. Year end foraging reflections. Elise Krohn's Wild...
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Wild Harvests: How to eat a Horsetail
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Wild food experiments and personal foraging accounts from the Pacific Northwest centering on Northwest Washington and Southern Vancouver Island. Tuesday, March 24, 2015. How to eat a Horsetail. In the Pacific Northwest we have several species of horsetail. Two are edible, three are useful as sandpaper, and the remaining are neither useful to humans, nor common (limited to sloughs and marshes). Following are descriptions of the edible species. Giant Horsetail ( Equisetum telmateia. Fruits are choice edibl...
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Wild Harvests: October 2014
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Wild food experiments and personal foraging accounts from the Pacific Northwest centering on Northwest Washington and Southern Vancouver Island. Monday, October 13, 2014. Klipsun Magazine features local foragers. My bicycle powered wild rice hulling machine. Photograph by Evan Abell. WWU student writer Michelle Dutro and photographer Evan Abell spent an afternoon harvesting and processing wild foods with me while working on their article " Wonders of the Wilderness. Which features local foragers. Primiti...
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Wild Harvests: March 2014
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Wild food experiments and personal foraging accounts from the Pacific Northwest centering on Northwest Washington and Southern Vancouver Island. Saturday, March 1, 2014. Bigleaf Maple sap- running strong. It snowed 8” in Bellingham on Feb 23. And for the last week, the Bigleaf Maple taps have been running copiously. February 26. The homemade evaporator has been performing admirably. With a backlog of sap, I have been boiling for 16 hours a day at an average rate of 1.5 gallons per hour. I hav...Plants fo...
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Wild Harvests: February 2014
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Wild food experiments and personal foraging accounts from the Pacific Northwest centering on Northwest Washington and Southern Vancouver Island. Wednesday, February 5, 2014. My Bigleaf Sugar Bush. A dripping tap. CD Lloyd Photograph. The sap is running! For the last few days we’ve had the sweet combination of freezing nights, above freezing days, and ample soil moisture that are needed to produce Bigleaf Maple ( Acer macrophyllum. And when the next cold snap hit I got more sap in two good days than I did...
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Wild Harvests: November 2014
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Wild food experiments and personal foraging accounts from the Pacific Northwest centering on Northwest Washington and Southern Vancouver Island. Thursday, November 6, 2014. Wild Rice husking machine. My brother produced this fun video of my bicycle powered Wild Rice husking/hulling machine. Posted by T. Abe Lloyd. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Author of Wild Berries of Washington and Oregon. Click on photo to check out my new book! Wild Rice husking machine. View my complete profile. Eating the Good Food.
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Wild Harvests: Birch- Maple's sappy boyfriend
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Wild food experiments and personal foraging accounts from the Pacific Northwest centering on Northwest Washington and Southern Vancouver Island. Friday, March 6, 2015. Birch- Maple's sappy boyfriend. Our warm winter has not been good for Bigleaf Maple ( Acer macrophyllum. Two weeks ago on Feb 21. And decided to mobilize. I drilled into my first Maples around noon on a sunny day with temps in the low 50s, and the sawdust was dry. Two more Maples also yielded dry sawdust and no subsequent sap flow,...I rus...
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Wild Harvests: September 2013
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Wild food experiments and personal foraging accounts from the Pacific Northwest centering on Northwest Washington and Southern Vancouver Island. Thursday, September 5, 2013. Mountain Berries: Huckleberries, Bilberries, and Blueberries (oh my! 3 hours of good picking. On holiday Monday, Katrina and I focused our labors on Cascade Bilberry ( Vaccinium deliciosum. Raking in 7.5 quarts in 3 hours, but we also saw loads of Black Huckleberry ( V. deliciosum. Oval-leaf Blueberry ( V. ovalifolium. 2a Shrubs usua...
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Wild Harvests: August 2013
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Wild food experiments and personal foraging accounts from the Pacific Northwest centering on Northwest Washington and Southern Vancouver Island. Thursday, August 22, 2013. Highbush Cranberries are one of the most confusing groups of edible plants in our region on account of poorly understood identifying characteristics and unimaginative common names. In the Pacific Northwest, we have two native species: Viburnum edule. And occasionally V. trilobum. Also called V. opulus. Distribution of V. edule. Is wide...
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Wild Harvests: May 2014
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Wild food experiments and personal foraging accounts from the Pacific Northwest centering on Northwest Washington and Southern Vancouver Island. Monday, May 26, 2014. To clear the road. Similarly, the wildflowers were delayed in their phenology. I had the pleasure of catching the Yellow Bells ( Fritillaria pudica. In bloom for the first time in the Methow Valley, and got my first taste of this delicate but filling root vegetable. Yellow Bell bulb with bulblets. Yellow Bells are probably a traditional foo...
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