Tag: foraging
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The Agreement

I saw them within the first weeks of moving here — summer 2012, barely unpacked. A doe with her fawns at dawn, moving along the strip of forest that separates our property from the neighbors. Then again in autumn, eating the fallen apples and plums alongside the hedgehogs and foxes. Roe deer — a doe,…
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Hunted, Foraged, Traded, Inherited

Venison osso buco braised in a Tatung rice cooker, with chanterelle cream sauce from Finnish forest finds. A cross-cultural recipe with a biography.
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Six on Saturday | 23rd September 2023

It’s been a gentle September, a couple of chilly nights aside. With the mellow temperatures and increased rainfall has come an amazing mushroom foraging season. The late autumn mushrooms are appearing earlier and the late summer mushrooms are still out in droves, so that I can’t walk from the house to the garage without coming…
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Dandelion Jelly Time

For the past few years, I have been looking forward to the end of May because it means… jelly-making time! We’ve always observed an unofficial sort of No-Mow May, if only because things don’t really dry out and start growing until June anyway. Even the weeds take a while to get going this far north,…