Eat | Drink | Cheap Episode 25 – Backyard Buffet Spring Edition

Bring your boots! Along rivers and hiking trails are growing a bounty of bright green, powerfully flavoured wild edibles that you can harvest at no cost. Shawn and Simon point out some of their favourites. 

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Music by John Palmer

Show notes and Shout Outs:

Miners Lettuce: https://www.eatdrinkbreathe.com/spring-beauty/ 

Purple Deadnettle: https://www.growforagecookferment.com/foraging-purple-dead-nettle/

Salmonberry Shoots: http://wildfoodsandmedicines.com/salmonberry-and-thimbleberry-sprouts/

Yarrow: https://www.almanac.com/plant/yarrow

Angel Wing Mushrooms: https://www.mushroom-appreciation.com/angel-wings-identification.html

Blackberry Leaves: https://www.eatdrinkbreathe.com/space-invaders-a-word-on-himalayan-blackberries/

Dandylions: https://www.eatdrinkbreathe.com/pulling-lions-teeth-2/

Plants of Coastal British Comlumbia by Jim Pojar: https://www.amazon.ca/Plants-Coastal-British-Columbia-Washington/dp/1772130095

All That The Rains Promise And More by David Arora: https://www.amazon.ca/All-That-Rain-Promises-More/dp/0898153883

Some Useful Wild Plants by Dan Jason: https://www.amazon.ca/Some-Useful-Wild-Plants-Foraging/dp/1550177915

Deerholme Foraging Book by Bill Jones: https://www.amazon.ca/Deerholme-Foraging-Book-Recipes-Northwest/dp/1771510455

Plantnet App: https://plantnet.org/en/

Point of No Return by Malcom Stratchon: https://malcolmstrachan.bandcamp.com/album/point-of-no-return

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