foraging Archives - Cottage Life

What’s better: eating blueberries or picking them?

General

Wild Profile: Meet the American woodcock

Outdoors

foraged pickerel roasting in a cast iron skillet over rocks while someone spoons butter overtop

Make delicious Pickerel in the Shallows with local ingredients

Outdoors

Derek Blais standing on Georgian Bay rock fishing with a black no lemons shirt

This cottager makes extraordinary feasts from foraged and Indigenous foods

General

chaga mushrooms

Cottage Q&A: Harvesting chaga mushrooms

Outdoors

hands-foraging

8 tips on how to get started with foraging

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mushrooms-on-a-platter-with-wooden-background

3 important tips for beginner mushroom foragers

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hazelnut-tree

10 wild plants you can eat in the Ontario region

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Death cap mushrooms growing in a forest. White in colour with hints of green and yellow.

Death cap mushroom poisonings are on the rise—here are some tips for foragers

General

Field of yellow dandelions.

Quiz: Can you tell if these plants are edible?

Outdoors

Person beginning to whittle a piece of tree bark.

8 retro cottage activities you should bring back this summer

Rocksy the raccoon

Clever raccoon uses a rock to knock on door for food

Outdoors

View of Halfway Rock Point along Bruce Trail, Ontario.

Foraging for a feast along the Bruce Trail

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