Wild food recipes

Stinning wild nettles are far more than just weed which needs to be removed. Every spring my kid and I are foraging the forest for the young nettles to make a delcious soup out of them. This is a delish recipe for a creamy wild nettle soup made with garlic and parsley and topped with spicy garlic.

Soft, buttery roasted cabbage wedges are cooked to golden perfection with a crunchy panko crumb. Serve as a side or a standout centrepiece.

This soup is the ultimate winter warmer. It's cozy, flavorful, filling, and so warming. Tender pieces of elk meat with perfectly cooked vegetables and chewy wild rice in a creamy, savory broth.

Wild Rice and Mushroom Pilaf - easy & delicious make-ahead side dish. Loaded with mushrooms, this pilaf has a nutty flavor from the wild rice blend.

Homemade honey marshmallows are really easy to make, and adding dandelion petals makes for an extra special herbal treat.

After foraging for chickweed make this super tasty chickweed pesto! Chickweed is a very nutritious wild green and this pesto is a delicious way to enjoy it.

Venison Rack with Wild Herb Butter for something unique. Low and slow is the perfect game for a smoker, so that’s exactly what we did!

Learn how to make a wild yeast starter for home brewing and natural sodas! This wild yeast starter is made using foraged berries, and is very easy to make.

Steamed buns filled with spruce curd The new growth of some conifers is just starting, and we can collect the tender tips to eat raw and create some recipes. We collect the tips from several conifers, including several types of spruce (Picea species), fir (Abies species), eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis), and white pine (Pinus strobus). The flavor of each species is different, so we taste the tips before we collect any to make sure we like the flavor, which can range from resinous, sour…