Wild Edible herbs & fruit
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California poppies, flowers and leaves can be used (if you grow them in your own garden) for bitters and tinctures, great for craft cocktails
Miners Lettuce, Mendocino
California coffeeberry, frangula californica, mendocino coast, california
Storksbill, the edible flowers, leaves and seed pods are best used raw for salads or garnishes
Chokecherries, AB, great for sorbets, and syrups, with their high acidity and sour cherry flavors
stinging nettles- close up
If you live near eucalyptus groves, these insects, called Lerps, create a carbohydrate rich sweet shell, that can be harvested to make Lerp Sugar, a complex natural sweetener, and is a way to help control a pest of eucalyptus
native gooseberries, alberta, make amazing preserves
red elderberries, alberta, need to be cooked and make a wonderful syrup or jelly
Ostrich Fern fiddleheads, Lenox, MA
white pine needles, sierra nevada, ca
wild kombu seaweed, sonoma coast, CA
forest infused bitters- yarrow, goldenrod, buffalo berries
hairy bittercress, not that hairy, but spicy and delicious
loquats, san joaquin, ca
miner's lettuce, amador, ca
sea lettuce, feather boa, nori, san mateo, ca
claytonia species, a type of miners lettuce, high sierra, ca
Hawthorn berries, AB, best used in jellies & syrups
Juniper berries and California Bay leaves, the natural yeast spontaneously fermenting with water into Smreka, a lightly acidic Balkan beverage, or taken further into a juniper vinegar
black elderberries, san Joaquin, california
wild green fennel seeds