
Wild harvest
With over 30 years of experience in sustainable foraging across North America, I research and work with edible wild mushrooms, fruits, and herbs gathered with care and respect for the land.
The wild offers flavors and ingredients that can’t be replicated.
From fiddlehead ferns and ramps in the East to boletes, seaweeds and gooseberries in the West, this connection to nature inspires both protection and exploration, bringing unique and incomparable flavors to the kitchen.
king bolete, boletus edulis, coastal mountains, california
black turban snails, sonoma coast, ca
truncated club coral, clavariadelphus truncatus, water valley, alberta- sweet tasting due to manitol
native gooseberries, alberta, make great tasting preserves
searching for Italian black truffles, barolo, italy
italian black truffle, tuber aestivum, barolo, italy
searching for Italian black truffles, barolo, italy
Choke cherries, alberta, great for sorbets, and syrups, with their high acidity and sour cherry flavors
forest infused bitters- yarrow, goldenrod, buffalo berries
sea lettuce, feather boa, nori, san mateo, ca
black trumpets, or trompettes de la mort, craterellus cornucopioides, coastal mountains, california
winter harvest of hedgehogs, black trumpets and yellowfoot chanterelles
yellow knight or man on horseback, tricholoma flavovirens, san joaquin, ca
red elderberries, alberta, need to be cooked and make a wonderful syrup or jelly
white pine needles, sierra nevada, ca
yellow morels, morchella esculenta, sierra nevada, ca
california blue mussels, sonoma coast, ca
birch bolete, leccinum boreale, ghost river, alberta
buffaloberry infused honey, bitter-sweet berry also called soopolalie, (shepherdia canadensis), often mixed with honey or sugar and whipped up to make a dessert by native north amercians
coccora, amanita calyptroderma, sierra nevada, ca
black elderberries, san Joaquin, california
butter bolete, butyriboletus persolidus, sierra nevada, california
miners lettuce, marin coast, ca
blewit, lepista nuda, coastal mountains, california
Black hawthorn, alberta
white alba truffle, tuber magnatum pico, straight from the earth, piedmont, italy
hedgehog, hydnum repandum, salt point state park, ca
tuberous sword fern, Nephrolepis cordifolia, central valley, california, the crunchy, water chestnut-like tubers are edible raw or cooked
clockwise from top (and bottom) scaly hedgehogs, birch bolete, larch bolete, short stalked suillus, rocky mountains, alberta
claytonia species, a type of miners lettuce, high sierra, ca
porcini, boletus edulis, torino, italy
California coffeeberry, frangula californica, mendocino coast, california
greying russula, russula decolorans, northern alberta
wild green fennel seeds
sheep polypore, albatrellus ovinus, water valley, alberta, turns yellow on cooking
gooseneck barnacles (percebes), sonoma coast, ca
wooly chanterelle or scaly vase chanterelle, Turbinellus floccosus, salt point state park
stork's bill, backyard edibles, ca
pig's ears, gomphus clavatus, salt point state park, california
loquats, san joaquin, ca
purple sea urchin, mendocino, ca