2019 MAINE WILD FOODS
Wild Foods 2019
Available all year:
Balsam Fir
Birch (Yellow or Black)
Eastern Hemlock
Juniper
White Pine
Wintergreen (depending on snow depth in winter.)
Smoking Woods
fresh cut and/or cut to size, and dried per request:
Alder
Beech
Birch
Cherry
Hickory (bark)
Maple
Oak
PEAK SEASON MIXES
*Mixed greens - salad, garnish, or cooking mixes
*Edible flowers
*Assorted tea plants
*Assorted infusion plants
*Wildflowers/ornamentals (longstem for arranging)
*Seasonal wreaths, garlands, table sprays
Maine Wild Food Calendar
April/May:
Burdock root
Chicory root
Dandelion root
Evening Primrose root
Field garlic
Sarsaparilla root
Dock root
May/June:
Amaranth greens
Balsam tips
Basswood leaves
Beech leaves
Black Locust blossoms
Cattail flowers (“on the cob”)
Cattail shoots
Chickweed
Clover
Dandelion greens
Elderflower
Garlic Mustard
Green Blueberries
Japanese Knotweed
Lamb’s Quarters
Mugwort
Orpine
Oxeye Daisy
Pineapple weed
Pine candles
Pine pollen cones
Sarsaparilla root
Sarsaparilla shoot
Sorrel
Spruce tips
Sweetfern
Sweetfern nutlets
Sweet Gale
Various mustard greens
Violet flowers
Violet greens
Wintercress greens
Yarrow
July/August:
Amaranth greens
Black cherries
Black Walnuts (immature)
Burdock stalks
Cattail flowers
Chickweed
Chokeberries (Aronia)
Chokecherries
Dandelion greens
Daylily buds
Elderberries
Elderflower
Garlic mustard
Goldenrod
Grape leaves
Hopniss flowers
Juneberries
Lamb’s Quarters
Linden blossoms
Mallow greens
Milkweed blossoms
Milkweed buds
Milkweed pods
Mugwort
Mustard/Radish pods
Pineapple weed
Purslane
Rose petals
Sorrel
Sumac
Sweetfern
Sweetfern nutlets
Sweet Gale
Tansy
Various mustard greens
Violet flowers
Violet greens
Wild Carrot flower
Wintercress greens
Yarrow
September/October:
Acorns
Autumn olives
Blackberries
Black cherries
Black Walnuts
Chokecherries
Crabapples
Elderberries
Feral Hops
Feral Pears
Goldenrod
Grapes
Highbush cranberries
Milkweed pods
Nannyberries
Rose hips
Spikenard fruit
Spikenard root
Sumac
Mushrooms
Timing and quantities are quite variable - I will notify throughout season.
Black Trumpet
Chanterelle
Chicken of the Woods
Hedgehog
Lion's Mane
Maitake
Matsutake
Oyster