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Wild Gardiner Wild Gardiner is a series of foraging and wild food preparation demonstrations that are being offer

Wild Gardiner is a series of foraging and wild food preparation demonstrations that are being offered in the Gardiner Farmers Market by Beautiful Dreamers. From time to time samples of wild food that have been prepared for Wild Gardiner will be offered for tasting purposes. All items to be offered are wild foods that are widely prepared and eaten. However with any food that you have never eaten be

fore, individual and idiosyncratic reactions and allergies are possible. We therefore ask that you exercise caution and only eat a small amount of any wild food the first time you try it. Sharing
If you know and use wild plants and are willing to share your knowledge, please come and share with others at Wild Gardiner by posting your own recipes, pictures and comments to this page. This page can become a place to exchange and grow our community's knowledge. Classes and Demonstrations
Wild Gardiner’s Kala Ladenheim is available for demonstrations, foraging walks, and forager surveys (where we survey your property and identify wild edibles that can be found there and prepare a seasonal harvesting plan.) Contact
Kala Ladenheim
[email protected] (subject Wild Gardiner)

Indigenous forest gardens https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1cg6Ldozd1/
03/22/2026

Indigenous forest gardens
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For decades, First Nations people in British Columbia knew their ancestral homes—villages forcibly emptied in the late 1800s—were great places to forage for traditional foods like hazelnuts, crabapples, cranberries, and hawthorn.⁠
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A 2021 study revealed that isolated patches of fruit trees and berry bushes in the region's hemlock and cedar forests were deliberately planted by Indigenous peoples in and around their settlements more than 150 years ago. It's one of the first times such "forest gardens" have been identified outside the tropics, and it shows that people were capable of changing forests in long-lasting, productive ways.⁠

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Kenya recovering traditional foods. We might frame a lot of foraging that way as well.
07/21/2025

Kenya recovering traditional foods. We might frame a lot of foraging that way as well.

Local indigenous greens grow in popularity despite a ban on farmers swapping or selling seeds.

03/16/2025

We are berry lucky here in Maine!

05/05/2024

Help! Anyone strong going to the Johnson Hall Opera House Lovett concert Wednesday who could help us get Robert in and out of the house and car?

04/29/2024

Did you know that the ancestral Algonkian peoples of the Hudson River watershed used bio-indicators in spring to alert them that it was time to ready the soil, sow their fields, and set their fish weirs?

When most of the trees in the forest have yet to leaf out, the soft, hazy white glow of New York's native shadbush (Amelanchier sp.) blooms. There is an ecological timing between these events—Shadbush blooms when the soil warms up in early April at the same time the river reaches a temperature that triggers the beginning of fish migration in from the sea to spawn. This process, called phenology, happens from south to north, in an orderly manner from magnolia to forsythia to shadbush to flowering dogwood, and then with lilac being the final signal that spring is ready for summer.

Find this full article and other interesting observations in the Hudson River Almanac—a weekly natural history newsletter that covers the Hudson from the High Peaks of the Adirondacks to New York Harbor: https://on.ny.gov/hralmanac.

Shadbush photo courtesy of Tom Lake

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