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Welcome to the blog section of Nordic Forest Foods. Here you can learn more about wild food identification, seasonal foraging, foraging benefits, common wild edibles to forage, guidelines, different ways of using wild food and much more! Feel free to suggest which wild food related blog posts you would like to find on this page.

Ground Elder

Ground Elder Season Ground elder (Aegopodium podagraria) is a perennial plant that typically emerges in spring and early summer. The young leaves are the most delicious and flavorful and should be harvested before the plant flowers. The best time to forage for the leaves is in April and May. Where to Find it Ground elder

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Sweet violet

The sweet violet (Viola odorata) is a perennial flowering plant native to Europe and Asia. It belongs to the violet family, which includes over 500 different species. It is also known by the names of wood violet, common violet, florist’s violet, English violet, and garden violet. Odorata, which is part of the Latin name of

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How to Clean, Store and Preserve Wild Mushrooms

A basket full of black trumpet mushrooms and funnel chanterelles. Foraging for edible wild mushrooms in nature is pure joy! You come home after a successful mushroom hunt with a basket full of delicious, fresh mushrooms. That means you can prepare a wonderful home cooked mushroom meal. Sometimes you are lucky enough to find more

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4 Wild Mushrooms to Forage in Winter: Velvet Shank, Oyster Mushroom, Wood Ear and Winter Chanterelle

Oyster mushrooms. Winter Foraging for Edible Mushrooms Every winter, many of us foragers look forward to spring when everything turns green again and we can enjoy being outside foraging. There is nothing better than getting fresh air and exercise and at the same time looking for mushrooms, plants, berries and other wild food. Many foragers

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Chanterelle Foraging Guide; Facts, Identification, Health Benefits and 5 Recipes

Facts and Identification about Chanterelles In this Chanterelle Foraging Guide, you will learn about the popular, sought-after, wild mushroom called chanterelle. You will learn how to identify chanterelles, get to know how to properly clean, store, and preserve them, learn about their health benefits and habitat, and at the end of the blog post, you

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Wild Garlic Facts, Identification, and Delicious Recipes to Make

Wild garlic is probably one of the most popular wild edible plants to forage in spring. Wild garlic is also known as wild leeks, wood leeks, bear leeks, ramsons, or ramps. Wild garlic is recognizable by its green spear-shaped leaves and beautiful, white star-shaped flowers growing in clusters.

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Wild Rose Hip Foraging: All You Need to Know

Rose hips are the fruits of the rose flower plant. Rose hips replace the fallen flowers when the temperatures lower. Rose hips are edible and are shaped round or oval. The color of rose hips is normally bright red to orange – the darker the red the riper.

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Forage 21 Common Wild Edibles By Season – Foraging All-year-round

This article introduces you to 21 common wild edibles divided into the four seasons: Spring, summer, autumn, winter. Foraging is the process of searching, identifying, and harvesting wild food in nature. Foraging can be done almost anywhere and any time during the year.

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Introduction to Foraging: Foraging Benefits, Equipment, Guidelines, Resources, History and How to Get Started Foraging

Foraging is characterized by searching, identifying, and gathering free food and provisions in nature. A forager is looking for herbs, plants, weeds, mushrooms, shellfish, wood, berries, fruits, and nuts.

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