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

Outdoors

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

Outdoors

death cap mushroom

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

General

Dandelion

Quiz: Can you tell if these plants are edible?

Outdoors

Whittling

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