If you have access to fresh or frozen wild blueberries, you have to try this recipe for homemade blueberry preserves, made with wild blueberries, and spiced with vanilla and cardamom. This adds warmth and complexity to your traditional wild blueberry jam, a flavour of home for many of us in the north.
Elderflowers lend a fragrant and floral flavour to beverages, and a small bottle of elderflower cordial is often priced over $20 in stores. If you forage the flowers fresh around the end of July, you can make your own! And it's really easy.
Do you love going on foraging adventures? Looking to try new types of foraging? Collecting pollen from the red pine tree is not the most common type of foraging but it's a unique way to add another level to a meal whether it be for meaning or appearance.