I’m not complaining. We all have our ups and downs, hard times, rough spots, and the past few months have…
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Foraging
Edible and Ornamental: Food is all around you if you know where to look.
Four or five years ago, when I was working on Backyard Foraging, I visited the Indianapolis Museum of Art with…
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All About Elderberries, aka Sambucus species
Elderberries don’t grow wild where I live in New Mexico. But just a few hundred miles north, in Denver, I…
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Cold Leached Acorns: The Gelatin Method
gelatin leached on the left, jar leached on the right I’ve been acorn-obsessed for the last few weeks, getting ready…
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Rose Hips: When, How, and Why to Harvest
If you’re someone who likes a perfectly groomed garden, I’m going to save you some time: stop reading. But if…
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Black Raspberry Clafouti Recipe
I first ate clafouti on vacation in France, in the middle of cherry season. Everywhere we went, cherry clafouti was…
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