Winter Happenings: Hittin’ the Coast For Edibles & Top 10 Gift Ideas for Every Forager
The first snowflakes have fallen, the turkey leftovers are gone and the holiday season is in full swing! Before we busy ourselves with shopping, travel plans and year-end festivities, I wanted to share some of the latest foraging news, happenings and gift ideas to help ease the stress!
Winter offers numerous opportunities for wild edible and medicinal discoveries. The coast beckons with the lowest tides of the year, tempting us to bundle up and explore the incredible bounty of tasty seaweeds, edible invasive species and native shellfish. While out in the woods medicinal harvests like chaga and turkey tail mushrooms are at prime and the perfect antidotes for colds and flus.
I’ll be splitting my time amongst the tide pools of Gloucester, MA and Rye Beach, NH, offering public and private coastal foraging events from December to March.
Fight off the winter blues by joining me on an upcoming beach-combing adventure!
Winter Coastal Foraging Events
December 28: Gloucester, MA (10am – noon)
January 10; Gloucester, MA (10:30am – 12:30pm)
Looking for the perfect present or stocking stuffer for your outdoor enthusiast? Check out this year’s Top 10 List, a carefully cultivated selection of my favorite foraging-centric gifts!
10 of My Favorite Foraging Things…
- Felicity Cloake’s Peach Street to Lobster Lane Coast to Coast in Search of Real American Cuisine (Food writer for UK’s The Guardian, Felicity is a well-respected writer and chef. Her newest book features one of my very own recipes!)
- Pascal Bauder’s The New Wildcrafted Cuisine: Exploring the Exotic Gastronomy of Local Terroir (A must-have for any forager or cooking enthusiast)
- Sean Sherman: The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen (One of my go-to recipe books)
- Sam Thayer’s The Forager’s Harvest (A staple in every forager’s collection)
- Gift Certificates (Give the gift of a foraging adventure with yours truly!)
- Foraged Gifts (Check out my available products online, from mushroom salts to syrups and dehydrated mushrooms)
- PocketKnife (I never leave home without one)
- Mushroom Growing Kit (North Spore is an awesome local company with a wide variety of easy-to-use Mushroom Growing Kits)
- Mushroom Planter/Propagation Station (Perfect for the gardener or fungi fanatic on your list)
- Mush Love Grocery Bag (Shop in style with this super cute and reusable bag)
