What is witches butter?
Witches butter is an edible wild fungi. Nutritionally, it is made up of polysaccarides (carbohydrates) and is being studied for it’s immune boosting properties. If you get stuck out in the forest it’s one of the few edible mushrooms that can be eaten raw. Always grows on dead wood and is commonly called a ‘jelly […]
Finding wild hedgehog mushrooms in BC
Chef and forager Robin Kort teaches you how to find wild edible hedgehog mushrooms in BC. A very easy mushroom to identify for beginners to foraging.
Cooking wild mushrooms: Bears Tooth mushroom
Learn how to cook wild mushrooms like Bears tooth with Chef Robin
Edible Seaweed – How to harvest and enjoy sea lettuce
Learn how to identify and harvest one of BC’s tastiest seaweeds, sea lettuce. Firm in texture with a lovely savoury saltiness, you’ll love it.
How to make Chaga tea
How to forage for and make chaga tea, a medicinal wild mushroom that grows on birch trees.
Bull kelp recipes
Bull kelp recipe for furikake a Japanese spice mix used on rice or fish. Tips on how to harvest wild bull kelp around BC sustainably.
Harvesting geoduck clams
Learn how and where to harvest geoduck around British Columbia
Salmon croquettes recipe
Chef Jane Cornborough of L’Abattoir gives us her favourite salmon croquette recipe to celebrate salmon season in BC. Enjoy!
Poisonous berries of BC
Learn about poisonous berries to avoid in the wilds of BC
Green fig preserves
Green figs grow like mad in Vancouver, so what do you do with them all? Here’s a simple recipe for Persian style green fig preserves which are traditionally eaten for breakfast with bread, butter and nuts.
