“He who’s afraid of the wild berry is only afraid to live.”
I am more than thrilled to boast that I was able to make it to my wild Concord grape vines this year. The bounty unfortunately was not quite as plentiful as last year. I was working with a very small time frame and I [...]
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Poison Grape Jam.
September 17th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Uncategorized
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Through the mill
September 19th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized
We’ve had wild Concord grapes on the mind for a good week now. While riding bikes around the city we came across a patch with literally hundreds. Unfortunately they we’re just out of arms reach. After trying to hatch a scheme to acquire these we finally moved on and decided to look for others.
Yesterday [...]
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Forage!
September 11th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Uncategorized
The Salted Cod recently decided to go wild and see what we could forage. We arrived at Blue Heron Farm in Lincoln, MA to meet up with Russ Cohen.
Russ Cohen is the regions foremost expert on wild edible plants. He is a self proclaimed “landscape nibbler” who tries to find something edible everywhere he [...]
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