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The Skillful Forager
Northeast Foraging
Pickling Everything
Recipes
Pub-style Pink Pickled Eggs Recipe
Chicken of the Woods Mushroom (and What to Do with Old “Chickens”)
Turkey Tail Mushroom: Eat Your (Tasty) Medicine
The Sea Takes It Away
Wild Mallow Seed Pudding or Sauce – New Ways to Use Wild Foods
Elderflower “Champagne” Recipe – Wild Edible Plants
Japanese Knotweed Bars – Wild Food Recipe
How to Make Carob or Honey Locust Pod Powder
How to Make Hazelnut Milk Without Shelling the Nuts
Turkey on the Roof: An Expat’s Thanksgiving
Persimmon Bread with Amaranth – Gluten Free Recipe
Book Giveaway! New Edition of Leda’s Food Memoir
Foraging Wineberries: a Delicious Invasive
Daylily – a Forager’s Delight with 4 Edible Parts
Foraging Mulberries & Mulberry Ice Box Cake Recipe
Blackberry (or other berry) Shrub Recipe
Make Fruit Leather Using Fresh Fruit
Lamb’s Quarters Dip in a Bread Bowl (that ’70s Dip, but Better)
Pineappleweed Flan Recipe
Creamed Dayflower Recipe-Foraging Asiatic Dayflower
Sprouted Wild Mustard Seed Salad
Pickled Redbud Recipe…& Wild Food Book Launch & Tasting
Dandelion Beer Recipe
Foraged Garlic Mustard Pesto Recipe – Eat the Invasives!
Hortopita Recipe – Wild Greens Phyllo Pie
Clover Soda Bread Recipe
Stinging Nettles Malfatti Recipe
The Solstice, Foraging, and Abundance
Olives Brined Greek-style (Almost My Grandfather’s Recipe)
Leftover Sweet Potatoes Bread Recipe
Jellied Cranberry Sauce Recipe with Spicebush and Orange
Wild Burdock (Gobo) Stir-fry
Foraging Hawthorn & Cordial Recipe
The Forager’s Feast – Spicy Gumbo with Purslane and Sassafras
Harvesting and Preparing Prickly Pear Fruit
Fermented Tomatoes Recipe
Lacto-fermentation – What It Is and How It Works
How to Make Mosto Cotto (Vino Cotto Recipe)
Tangy Edible Sumac Extract, Cocktails, & Popsicles
Purslane Relish Recipe
Foraging for Prickly Pears and Scrambled Eggs with Nopales Recipe
Pickled Sushi Ginger (Gari) Recipe with Shiso
Foraging Plantain & Recipe for Plantain Leaf Chips
Pineappleweed Cordial Recipe – Wild Plant Mixology
Foraging for Japanese Knotweed
Sorrel Soup Recipe
Clover Blossom Spoonbread Recipe
Foraging with Christopher McDougall for Natural Born Heroes
Pickled Jerusalem Artichokes Recipe
Henbit Noodles with Creamy Wild Mushroom Sauce
Mallow Leaf & White Bean Burgers – Vegan Recipe
Mallow Leaf & White Bean Burgers – Vegan Recipe
Solstice Sauce
Pickled Carrots with Ginger and Coriander
Ginkgo Season is Here
Food Justice and the People’s Climate March
Thank You Pickles
A Mediterranean Summer (capers and sumac and grapes, oh my!)
Collecting and Curing Wild Capers
Free Slow Food NYC Event
Northeast Foraging…and Is It Spring Yet?
Good-bye, Brooklyn, and Hello, Northeast Foraging
My Transcontinental Pressure Canner
Cold Weather Foraging
Something for Nothing Recipes
Holiday Recipes from Leda’s Urban Homestead
Seasonal Shift
Foraging Frenzy
From Elderberries to Wild Figs
Breakfast with Cesar – Smokin’!
Edible Wild Plant Videos
Keeping Up with the Forager’s Feast
Hello, Spring
Food with Friends
6 Ways to Make Eating Local in Winter Convenient, Cheap & Interesting
Ancient Herbals, Wild Edibles, Aphrodisiacs, and Other Interesting Stuff
Locavore Food Gifts for the Holidays
Stranger in a Strange Land
Foraging and Feasting
Locavore Challenges
Summer’s Home Stretch
Summer's Home Stretch
Ate It
Summer Travels
Soggy & Clandestine Foraging
Foraging Tour Discount!
Forager’s Log – 1st Week of June, 2012
Forager's Log – 1st Week of June, 2012
Bellagio to Brooklyn
Forager’s Log, First Week of May 2012
Forager's Log, First Week of May 2012
Forage and Dine
Eater's Log, 2nd Week of April 2012
Forager’s Log – 1st Week of April, 2012
Forager's Log – 1st Week of April, 2012
Wild Edible Plants – My First Love
Keeping Local Foods Interesting in Winter
Locavore on the Road: Happy New Year!
A Forager's Thanksgiving
The Improvised Pickle
Applesauce, Salt Pork & Cooking for #Occupy
Summer's End
Kitchens on the Road, continued…
Summer Food, Foraging & Putting Some By
Leaves & Berries
Leaves & Berries
Suddenly Summer
About Foraging & Food Security
About Foraging & Food Security
Wild Greens Pesto Cooking Video
Earth Day Thoughts
The Season Begins
A Locavore’s Cruelest Season
A Locavore's Cruelest Season
Free Food Preservation Class This Saturday
Urban Homesteaders' Day of Action
Locavore Classes & Events March-April 2011
Locavore Classes & Events March-April 2011
Another Kitchen on the Road & Jumped Up Skordalia
Notes from NOFA
Miriam's Malabi
Happy Solstice 2010!
Foodie Weekend at Artists & Fleas
Homemade Corn Flakes
Butternuts, Hen, & Grains Week in NYC
End of the Season & Almost Stocked Up for Winter
A Locavore’s Fall Daze
A Locavore's Fall Daze
Storm Damage & Silver Linings
Food Preservation Workshop with Leda this Saturday
Preserving Late Summer’s Abundance
Preserving Late Summer's Abundance
Foraging on a Rooftop Farm
Summer Travels & Heat Wave Garden Recovery
Summer Travels & Heat Wave Garden Recovery
Wild Fruit
Green Garlic Tostadas, Elderflower Champagne-Hello, June!
Peak Food: Why a Local, Seasonal Diet is Never Boring
Urban Foraging Interview
Crop Mob
Hot Grease Interview
Homemade Seedling Pots, Local Veg. Oils, & Other Homestead Updates
Beginning of Spring, or a Locavore's Darkest Weeks?
Ready, Set, Grow: Planning Your 2010 Edible Garden
Road Trip: Hope in an American Food Desert
A Local & Wild Foods Feast
Survival Seeds
Locavorian Progress & a Special Chutney Recipe
A Locavore on the Road
Ditching List Recipes for Old-Style Suggestions & Experimentation
Leda’s No Impact Week & Your Edible Garden
Leda's No Impact Week & Your Edible Garden
No Impact Week & Acorn Bread
Leda Doing the No Impact Week
Wild Edible Plants in Brooklyn with Leda
Not Your Grandma's Pantry
One Year After the 250-Mile Diet
Tomato Troubles
Summer's Abundance or Hectic Schedule…Um, Both?
Eating Local in the Big Apple
A Locavore Returns Back East from Out West
Local Foods Classes Update
foraging tour & marinated burdock
foraging tour & marinated burdock
The Perfect Strawberry Dilemma
Late Spring Harvest & Upcoming Foraging Tour
Late Spring Harvest & Upcoming Foraging Tour
Free Local Food
Back in Brooklyn
Flowers for Rhubarb
Local Foods Radio Interview and Reading with Leda Online
A Tipping Point for Local Foods?
Elm Samaras & Knotweed Soup
Foraging Tour on Saturday
Interview with Locavore Leda Meredith
Hops Shoots & Wild Salad
The Ultimate Local
Edible Sunlight
That Time of Year
Locavore Article in Brooklyn Eagle
Of the Region, For the Region
Snow Day
Eating Local in the Big Apple
Double-Roasted Winter Soup
Home Cooking
Hello, Pantry
Europe's Take on American Locavores
Grounded in Community
Wolf, Meet Locavore
Pre-Op Foraging & Post-Op Kitchen Navigation
Putting Food Up for the Cold Time–with Mom's Help
Fireroasted Tomatoes
A Farm, A Foraging Foray, & Crutches
Machete Woman
Parties, Foraging, & Stocking Up Again
What Here Tastes Like
The Day After
New Interest In Homegrown & Foraged Food
Home Stretch
Reading & Book Signing on 21st
Reading & Book Signing on 21st
Foraging Event
On the Road, Locavore-Style
One Month to Go
The Cost Factor
Red Currant Jam
Upcoming Talks, Readings, & Foraging Walks
These Were A Few of My Favorite Things
This Fruit Is Not Forbidden
NY Post on Locavores & Foraging
The Neighbors
A Forager's Tasting
Slow Food Foraging Event with Leda
Strawberries, Rhubarb, & Evil Plastic Bags
Local Food Video with Leda
Green Garlic & Radish Leaf Soup
Checking In
First Asparagus of the Season
Foraging Day
In the Garden
I Made It Through the Winter
Kale Again: Is It Really Spring?
Reconsidering My Olive Oil Exemption
An Impossible Mango
News Bite on Leda the Locavore
My Garlic Shortage
Just Food Conference
Almost Spring
Local on a Budget
Tropical Treasure
Is It Spring Yet?
A Locavore's Guide to Fast Food
A Midwinter 100-Mile Feast
In Praise of Brassicaceae
The 250 in January
It Does Amount to a Hill of Beans
Winter Classes with Leda
An East Coast Locavore Spends the Holidays Out West
A Locavore's Holiday Brunch
Four Months In
Raspberry Cordial
The Best Bread You Never Had
Scouts Wanted! The Locavore's Guide Is Up And Running
Spice of Life
Gone Native
You Can Can
Mushroom Week
Locavores NYC Alert #2 The Sweet and the Sour
Foraging Weekend
When In Rome…(or Brooklyn)
Locavores NYC Alert #1
Salt Licks
Three Weeks Into It
Leda goes local press
In A Pickle
Shopping Lesson
Day One of the 250-Mile Diet
The Map
Leda's 250 Featured by 100milediet.org
The 250-Mile Diet Rules
Getting Ready for the 250-Mile Diet