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Category: Wild foraging

Tommie Bass standing in herb garden
January 16, 2018 Alabama / Wild foraging

Well the son-of-a-gun pecked in, now let him peck out

Nationally recognized herbalist Tommie Bass was the subject of scholarly & popular books, and a front-page essay in the Wall Street Journal.

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Panax quinquefolius in fruit
September 15, 2017 Wild foraging

Ginseng, the curious rootstock

The U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service mandates that states allowing wild ginseng’s export have protective regulations in place.

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morel illustration
April 11, 2017 Wild foraging

Hickory chickens are underfoot this month

‘Hickory chickens,’ or ‘dry land fish,’ have nothing to do with chicken, fish or hickory. They are morel mushrooms. They’re in season now.

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boy picking raspberries 1930s
July 12, 2016 Wild foraging

Black raspberry season!

Call them Rubus occidentalis if you’re of scientific bent; Blackcap if you’re not. Black raspberries are often wrongly called blackberries.

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garden apron and bonnet illustration
July 6, 2009 North Carolina / Wild foraging

The old ways are almost gone and I’d better be finding an apron and bonnet for gathering

Tipper Presley listened to an elder of her community share memories of plant uses. “She seemed to be telling me the old ways are almost gone.

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