Beechnuts are the tasty wild nuts of the beech tree, and they were once an important food source for early colonists and Native Americans alike.
Butter nuts, also known as white walnuts, are the rich sweet fruit of the butternut tree (Juglans cinerea). They grow wild throughout the forests of the Northeast (Range Map), though they're increasingly rare due to
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Learn all about foraging for elderberries and elderflowers, including identifying, harvesting, look-alikes, and edible and medicinal uses!
Go foraging for crabapples to make delicious pectin free jam, and this savory cornbread with crabapples stuffing! The Homesteading Hippy
Edible pine needles make very tasty cookies, drinks, and syrups! Get all of the foraged pine needle recipes you need here.
Find out what are the health benefits, side effects and top nutrition facts of black walnuts and what black walnuts look and taste like.
Black walnuts are a foraging gold! Here's how to identify black walnuts, harvest them, store them, and use them.
This is the easiest way I've found on how to remove the hull and crack black walnuts. Learn how to identify the trees and nuts, then the easiest method to p...
Black Walnut Harvesting & Processing: As Autumn approaches in our area of Northeastern Oklahoma, many of our nut trees are beginning to shed their crops, dropping nuts beneath trees, in the garden, yard, bushes, and even on an occasional unsuspecting human below the tree. Our house was …
All about how to grow a mulberry tree and how to use the wonderful, nutritious, drip off your elbow fruit or the juice it creates. Grow yours today!
Many tree species are full of sap ready to be tapped for syrup. In fact, you may have one in your own backyard, including maple and birch.
Walk into any gift shop in Vermont and you'll find shelves of maple syrup, alongside t-shirts that boast "I'd tap that" with a maple tree front and center. We love syrup, we love tapping, so
The new spring tips of fir, spruce and hemlock trees are edible. Here's how to identify and eat them, and a poisonous lookalike.
What trees to tap o make your own syrup? You can be a sugarmaker! You may have many untapped resources for delicious syrup right in your backyard.
A cluster of 2 Black Walnuts This weekend’s high winds knocked many of the Black Walnut ( Juglans nigra ) out of the trees and ...
5 Foraging and Survival Uses of Spruce trees.
Cold climate gardening can seem limiting, and you just can't grow many common supermarket fruits. That just means you have to get creative because there are literally dozens of delicious cold hard fruits you've probably
How Albuquerque-based New Mexico Piñon Coffee Company started roasting some of the Southwest's best beans.
