Foraging for currants in BC
Learn how to safely forage for currants. There are many types of currant plants that common to BC that were eaten traditionally by many First Nations peoples. Black, golden, wax, sticky, red swamp and even stink currant are a few of the varieties. My favourite is Ribes sanguineum or red flowering currant. You don’t eat…
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March 27, 2019
Fiddlehead foraging
Fiddleheads are the tasty edible part of a young fern shoot. All curled up in a tight green ball, you pick these delicacies in springtime. In our area (Vancouver), bracken fern and lady fern are the two that are found (ostrich fern is the commercial variety, you can find in Northern BC). Lady Fern fiddlehead…
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March 22, 2019