Thursday, May 22, 2008

Green (but Unproductive) Pastures

Both the apples and the lilacs are in bloom, and still no morels on our hillsides. Maybe I haven’t been hunting hard enough, but it has been raining. Rain and hail, actually.

Looking for more information, we found Tom Seymour’s Foraging New England. Although unhelpful about morels (they are “where you find them”), he does recommend some greens that we haven’t previously considered as food, including nettles and trillium.

In an entertaining and well-written piece, Sharon Parquette Nimtz of the Rutland Herald says that she often has good luck on high cliffs.

Time to start climbing, I guess, before the season is gone.

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