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