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Looking for information on cold weather foraging in Colorado
#23751409 - 10/19/16 08:56 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Sorry if this is in the wrong board. I can't seem to find any information on foraging in the fall in the Rockies (6k elevation).
Any direction would be greatly appreciated, I can't afford books right now though!
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Re: Looking for information on cold weather foraging in Colorado [Re: Terpfreak] 2
#23753752 - 10/20/16 12:45 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Juniper berries and green tips are first that come to mind, not sure if they grow that high there. Kinnikinnick (Uva- ursa) is ready to harvest (leaves and berries). Huckleberry leaves can be harvested now for tea. Pine, fir, and spruce needles can be collected now and stored for tea, cones for decoration. They pay good money for those big pine cones in china. Wild/mountain onion seeds are ready for collection. Also wild mints and mint-relatives (horehound) might be able to find. If I think of anything else I'll let u know.
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Re: Looking for information on cold weather foraging in Colorado [Re: Terpfreak]
#23753788 - 10/20/16 01:16 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Pack a lunch.
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Re: Looking for information on cold weather foraging in Colorado [Re: Amanita86]
#23754472 - 10/20/16 10:41 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Thanks a lot, went out yesterday and collected a couple pounds nearly dried rose haws. Finished drying them and will use for tea
Every time I forage I meet someone with similar interests. My friend and I met a miner who traded us a neat rock for some plant education.
Love the community, thanks guys.
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Re: Looking for information on cold weather foraging in Colorado [Re: Terpfreak] 1
#23760373 - 10/22/16 09:45 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Thought of a few more. Oregon grape, if they occur in your area. the ripe fruit obviously, as well as the root for medicinal applications. Do you have high bush cranberry there? Large dandelion and milk thistle roots should still be good to collect. Usnea species (old mans beard) is good to harvest. Winter oyster mushrooms (if they occur there) should be out soon. Some of the sorrels are pretty cold hardy and can be collected this time of year, sheep sorrel comes to mind. Do raspberries or blackberries grow wild where you live? The stalks, leaves and flowers of plant species in the genus Rubus are edible, as well as wild strawberry leaves (fragaria sp.). A few favorite forage tea blends: -Raspberry leaf and tundra tea -Juniper tips or berries with kinnikinnick leaf and mint -Strawberry and mint leaf -Dandelion and thistle root with stinging nettle leaf -Huckleberry/blueberry or wild cranberry leaf with spruce or fir tips.
Wild rose hips are delicious but I rarely have them in tea I prefer to eat them raw when they are abundunt. Make excellent jams and sweetNspicy sauces too
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Re: Looking for information on cold weather foraging in Colorado [Re: Amanita86]
#23760453 - 10/22/16 10:08 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Amanita86 said: Pack a lunch.
you rape neighbor and nature, leave only dust. Eat without thanks, prepare yourself for the slaughter.
Post with content or back to OTD, this is a forum where we help people learn.
"Pack a lunch." Unwilling to learn anything new or help someone escape the monotonous drone of this civilized wasteland, here is somebody eager to learn how to provide for themselves, to eat well from the earth. I think that is so fucking cool, fucking awesome. Someone eager to learn how to find real food. I love to see it and I want to help teach what I know and learn from others. you and your wasteful commentary is just distraction. Arrogant sloth. They don't need you here. stay home and starve in your suburban hell, slave. burn
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Re: Looking for information on cold weather foraging in Colorado [Re: MadMuncher]
#23761266 - 10/22/16 03:28 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Wow.
Seriously tho, pack a lunch. Stay away from salty stuff, bread etc. That's the only advice I can offer, try it one time. It actually becomes pretty appreciated over time. Plus its just good thinking and stuff like that.
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Re: Looking for information on cold weather foraging in Colorado [Re: Amanita86]
#23763494 - 10/23/16 08:11 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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That was a little over the top. Uncalled for I guess but was feelin it. I really needed to shoot something this morning . Brought home a moose today, that was a good 15 hour workout. Didn't pack a lunch. I don't know what I'm gonna do all winter now I don't have to shoot rabbits and ptarmigan every week
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Re: Looking for information on cold weather foraging in Colorado [Re: MadMuncher]
#23765062 - 10/23/16 07:04 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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You could just track them and watch, taking some notes. What did the moose weight out at? Are they like buy a tag, fill a tag? Ive never seen a moose or been where I could track one down.
Is moose alright? How would you describe it?
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#23765694 - 10/23/16 11:54 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Re: Looking for information on cold weather foraging in Colorado [Re: MadMuncher]
#23766524 - 10/24/16 11:41 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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MadMuncher said: Juniper berries and green tips are first that come to mind, not sure if they grow that high there. Kinnikinnick (Uva- ursa) is ready to harvest (leaves and berries). Huckleberry leaves can be harvested now for tea. Pine, fir, and spruce needles can be collected now and stored for tea, cones for decoration. They pay good money for those big pine cones in china. Wild/mountain onion seeds are ready for collection. Also wild mints and mint-relatives (horehound) might be able to find. If I think of anything else I'll let u know.
Hows pine needle tea taste? Does it taste like Christmas?
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Re: Looking for information on cold weather foraging in Colorado [Re: CookieCrumbs]
#23767093 - 10/24/16 02:55 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Try it. I don't celebrate saturnalia so I'm not sure, but I guess it tastes like your house smells when u get a tree. It tastes like pine needles, kind of oily, acidic and slightly bitter, citrus notes. I like to float a few in my coffee when I'm camping. My aunt used to cook with it, soups, salads and meat dishes. I made candy with it once. Adds great new flavor to hot chocolate, or other hot drinks. Some people like it in egg nog but I can't stand that shit
Apparently this is what the yuppies in NY are doing with it http://www.seriouseats.com/2014/02/foraged-flavor-all-about-pine.html
Edit: I wanted to add that for tea pine, spruce, hemlock, and fir needles can all be used. The bright green tips in early spring/late winter are prime. Pine nuts were a staple food for a lot of natives in your general region, if you can beat the squirrels you can harvest lots. If dwarf birch is in your area that makes excellent tea. In early spring birch leaves and twigs can be used for tea, it's kinda minty sweet. You can tap the trunks for sap for a few weeks right before the snow melts just like sugar maple trees. Poplar/cottonwood buds in late winter can be harvested for food, tea, and medicine (tinctures, salves, rubs). The willow leaf is tea and inner bark can be used for food, tea, dyes, and medicine, headaches and soreness, also as a traditional smoking blend with tobacco and other herbs. Alder can be used similarly. Crowberry leaves are tea and medicine. Very young copper colored Oregon grape leaves are food. Aspen leaves and bark are tea and medicine. Horsetail is food and medicine (research first). Cedar is medicine. Inner bark of spruce is emergency food. I'm forgetting a lot I'm sure I'll remember some more later and add to it I'm trying to stick with winter time forage.
This stuff is delicious and available year round. We drink this all the time up here, but here it's a tiny ground cover we call it tundra tea, downstates it will grow 6-10 ft and taller in the right microclimate
I don't agree with the genus placement but this is the west coast species Rhododendron neoglandulosum https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labrador_tea
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Re: Looking for information on cold weather foraging in Colorado [Re: MadMuncher]
#23768126 - 10/24/16 08:19 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Dude I would love to chill with you for a month or 2. You sound like an encyclopedia of wilderness 
Thanks for the suggestion though. I'm always interested in something that can give my coffee a twist. Actually camping right now so maybe I'll try to find some pine needles tomorrow while the coffee is brewing.
I'm really bad at identifying trees. It actually bothers me alot. I can only ID a handful from sight alone and if it's chopped wood then I'm screwed. Pinewood cooking has one of the most disgusting smoked tastes I've ever had. And I've had "vegan hickory bacon"
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Re: Looking for information on cold weather foraging in Colorado [Re: MadMuncher]
#23769406 - 10/25/16 09:47 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Don't think we have alder wood here. At least I've never had anyone claim a tree or wood to be alder. My family comes from the Appalachian, distant cousin got me interested in foraging by showing me how to collect Morale mushrooms and wild leeks. Also tried to teach me how to play the bango but that didn't pan out tho I still have the toy bango he made out of a cookie tin. I live in central VA and could only visit him once every few years. Sadly he passed away about 2 years ago and I've been lacking a mentor 
I've grown up collecting blackberries (totally didn't know about the species btw lol) and have expanded my foraging skills ever so slightly since. I hear and read all these things you can eat and treat and tea from and it blows my mind and I get excited about doing it and then realize I just don't trust myself to do it on my own. About the only things I've learned to forage on my own is wild onions and basil, for obvious reasons, they're very distinct and common enough that I can ask someone in the suburbs if I can take their weeds 
I'd always been interested in living off the land. My family settled the Appalachian generations ago and one branch (my great great grandmother) is native American. I got the Powhatan blood in me. Which makes me curious about your own native blood, native Alaskan right? Do you know which sect?
I think what you are doing is awesome and I can tell you are very passionate about it, I really respect that man. You're living the way nature intended.
The only thing I've never been into is hunting. I mean I have friends here that do and their venison is legit but I studied ecology with a focus on conservation in school and it tears me up how many animals we have and are pushing into extinction. We wouldn't have a deer problem if we hadn't killed off all the wolves and coyote and nearly the mountain lions and black bears too. We can live in balance with nature but we choose not to and it makes me really sad.
Though I do owe alot of respect to alot of the mid eastern states. They've been working really hard at conserving what's left. They reintroduced coyote here a few years ago and with protection the population has flourished the state parks and wmas enforce good protection standards and I suppose that's all I could ask for.
Now you got me going off into tangents  Anyway, I'd just feel so bad killing a beautiful healthy animal living in the environment and doing their thing when we have chickens that were bred specifically to be our food. I don't look down on hunters, they're necessary in alot of places, I just couldn't do it myself. I prefer to watch and appreciate. Mother nature gives and I try to give back in the little ways I can. The unpredictability of my health has halted alot of my volunteer work and more or less ruined any dreams I'd had of being self sustainable but I take what I can get and I give what I can 
Back to trees: like I said I doubt myself a bit too much to just read up on this stuff and say I have an ID (which is why I don't even bother trying with most wild mushrooms anymore) but I got this fancy smartphone now and there's something called google goggles which, I think, works through your camera to websearch things you see. Been thinking of trying it. If I can make enough memory on my phone. If it worjs for trees it'd help alot. I know enough on most to guess but I never trust my conclusion.
We have mostly maples, oaks, pines, beaches, and hollys here. We have other needley trees but I dunno what they are and no one talks about them until they're looking for a Christmas tree. Only one I know of is cedar, which is my personal favorite. We used to have alot of walnut trees too but we had some tree bug come through and destroyed most of them.
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Re: Looking for information on cold weather foraging in Colorado [Re: CookieCrumbs]
#23769422 - 10/25/16 09:51 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Sorry I co-jacked your thread OP
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Re: Looking for information on cold weather foraging in Colorado [Re: CookieCrumbs]
#23770165 - 10/25/16 02:06 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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I'd always been interested in living off the land. My family settled the Appalachian generations ago and one branch (my great great grandmother) is native American. I got the Powhatan blood in me. Which makes me curious about your own native blood, native Alaskan right? Do you know which sect?
Who is my mother? Where is my tribe? Who are my people? You are my mother, you are my people. beat to death in the streets, raped tortured, genocide, outlaws, army, Canada border, back and forth changing names. last 5 generations suppression, violence, prostitution, substance abuse, rape and bipolar/PTSD/multiple personalities and other issues. The spirit of Jackson now screams through the ruins. I am a mutt.
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Re: Looking for information on cold weather foraging in Colorado [Re: MadMuncher]
#23770229 - 10/25/16 02:27 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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I think mutts make the best breeds of anything dogs, cats, people, the best are a hearty mix.
I like geneology and people history. But I feel sad thru much of it. I don't think there's a race on earth that doesn't have some metaphorical blood on it's hands. Or shed some as well. But again that is the story of people: we get greedy and it prevents us from being able to live in harmony and balance on this earth.
Never heard of LaPine. I'll look into it when I get the chance. I bet your kids are gonna be badass
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Re: Looking for information on cold weather foraging in Colorado [Re: CookieCrumbs]
#23771826 - 10/25/16 11:06 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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I think it's cool if it's willing. There's some pretty alright mixes going on out there.
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Re: Looking for information on cold weather foraging in Colorado [Re: Terpfreak]
#24016503 - 01/17/17 03:39 AM (7 years, 13 days ago) |
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Beyond the Aspen Grove by Ann Zwinger
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