It’s hard to believe that I’ve been writing the WanderFood blog for just over a year! Won’t you pour yourself some coffee — or a hot chocolate topped with whipped cream — and join me on a journey back through some favorite posts? Throughout this year, we’ve eaten on the road and closer to home: […]
British Columbia
How to Make Licorice Fern Tea
On the recent learn-to-forage Wild Edibles Tour that I took on Vancouver’s North Shore, one of the wild foods that our guide, Alexander McNaughton, identified was the licorice fern. Before you make licorice fern tea of your very own, make sure you research or learn from a forager how to identify licorice ferns in the […]
WanderFood Wednesday: Learning How to Forage, on Swallow Tail’s Wild Edibles Tour
We’re not 12 steps from the parking lot, and Alexander McNaughton has already identified more than a dozen plants we could eat. On an uncharacteristically rainy July morning in Lynn Headwaters Regional Park, on Vancouver’s North Shore, McNaughton is guiding a Wild Edibles Tour, teaching our group of mostly-novice foragers how to identify edible plants. […]