Sustainable Foraging Minnesota

06/28/2025

06/05/2024

Interest in foraging for wild mushrooms has surged in Minnesota over the past decade, leading several entrepreneurs to turn their love for foraging into careers.

04/30/2024

Friendly reminder that while invasive from a native plant perspective, garlic mustard is highly edible and makes a great base for soups and salads!

04/21/2024

It’s that time of year again when our native spring ephemerals as well as invasive species are coming to life for the season. Invasive garlic is edible and delicious in salads and pestos. Harvest away, we sure do.

Garlic mustard ( Alliaria petiolata ) is a biennial herb native to Europe. (Biennial means the plant sends up leaves in its first year and typically flowers in its second.) Brought to the United States in the 1800s as an edible, it has since spread across the northeastern US, the midwest, as far sou

04/01/2024