Tag Archive for: wildcrafting

What’s Filling Your Teacup These Days?

The rainy season has begun on Maui. Great time to sit and have a warm cuppa...cup of what? What's filling my cup is a blend of wildcrafted kahili ginger flowers (Hedychium gardnerianum), shatavari, mint, ginger root, and roselle. Temporary…

Making our Invasive Species Taste Delicious

Do you get enough greens in your diet? Wild Mess ‘o Greens bowls include Spanish needle (Bidens pilosa) and spiny amaranth greens (Amaranthus spinosus), and are an antioxidant boost of slow cooked nutrient dense wild greens. With a dollop…

Did You See Our Menu?

Starting in October we began serving the first ever in Hawaii, wild meat musubi. Wild boar with the first, made using 100% wild trapped hogs from the Big Island. Check out the rest of our menu. This fiery chili had 3 of the 5 invasive edible…

Raw Java Plum Pie

Raw Java Plum Pie (Syzygium cumini) with a kiawe (Prosopis pallida) crust.

Java Plum Takes Center Stage

Our third week open Java Plum took the stage. Fresh & herb-infused beet, dried star fruit slices, wildcrafted powdered aweoweo (Chenopodium oahuense) kraut spice, java plum (Syzygium cumini) seed vinaigrette photographed above. Flaky…

First Week’s Menu

Our first week of the food truck being open we served up a great menu, including this Wild West Pumpkin Salad :: organic pumpkin^, Spanish needle greens*, organic green onion^, organic vegenaise, Cat's ear vinegar*, organic lemon juice, sunflower…

Wildcrafting in my Own Backyard

Our family is gearing up to buy another vehicle and I see more wild food field trips in my future. It has been a fabulous 10 months being back on land, and our trusty little truck has taken us far. Living frugally has been easy, as hitchhiking…

Wildfoods Festival

I finally made it to Hokitika, New Zealand! Since beginning my journey into wild foods I have known about this festival due to it's number one Google hit for 'wild food festival'. For over 20 years this annual Wildfoods gathering has been tempting…

Uganost: with Ila Hatter

Happy Beltane! I hope you are all out doing some wild exuberant dancing with the maypole. May Day has been celebrated by earth-centered cultures for many a year, and it marks the midway point between spring equinox and summer solstice. I’m…