Mark & Beth's Homegrown Adventure
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Category: Foraging
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Season of Renewal
When I started this blog, my goal was to update it weekly in the hope of building a following. But life got messy, and I told myself monthly would be okay. But life got messier, and here I am, not having posted since October. The truth is, my inspiration has been low. We’ve continued to…
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Three-Ingredient Wild Blackberry Jam
Mark and I were hiking down a trail we’d never checked out before in our local park, hoping to come across some chanterelle or oyster mushrooms (no such luck yet, but I have hope). Instead, among a forest of poison ivy, we found brambles on brambles of wild blackberry bushes! My first thought was a…
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Cute lil’ Harvest & Garden Pupdate
I was about to write, “we finally did some harvesting from the garden!” But really, it wasn’t our first harvest. Just our first big(ish) harvest. Before today, we picked some sprigs of rosemary, mint, and parsley, some sweet peas, and enough lettuce and kale for a couple small side salads. But it doesn’t feel like…
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Summertime Foraging
Gotta be honest, foraging in the summer isn’t quite as fun for me as foraging in the spring was. I think the summertime finds are less exciting and less desirable to eat overall (other than the wild black raspberries, which I didn’t get a picture of because I ate them too fast). Not to mention…
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Wild Wines
I’m at that point in the spring where I just seem to be anxiously awaiting my plants to grow. We’ve harvested just a few small things (more on that next time), but are otherwise just watering, watching, and waiting. WWW. Well, another “W” I’ve been working on in the meantime is wine. A while back,…
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We Finally Found Wild Lettuce!
TikTok’s algorithm knows what I want to see (of course). I get a lot of cute animals, funny nonsense, garden tips, and of course, foraging finds. For the past few months, I’ve been seeing videos of people finding or growing Lactuca virosa, or wild lettuce. It’s touted as being nice in a salad when it’s…
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Here’s What We Did with the Things We’ve Foraged Recently
It’s both a fun and a frustrating time of the year for gardening, because almost all of the plants are in their permanent homes (waiting just a little longer on the tomatoes and peppers for the soil temperature to warm up), but there’s nothing to harvest yet. However, that’s definitely not the case in the…
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First Time Foraging, For Real
I’ve posted just a little bit about using dandelions and field garlic, but those were things we found in our yard. Didn’t have to actually go looking for them. But that all changed yesterday! We decided to set aside some time to go foraging intentionally, and we had some serious luck. First, we went to…
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Foraging Series: Dandelions!
So as I mentioned the other day in my post about using the wild onion grass, Mark and I are both foraging newbies. So for the second attempt at foraging, I went for another plant that I was 100% confident I could identify. Really, all of us who have ever lived somewhere with a yard…
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