Nordic foraging aims to be a guide to the wild, to discover how we can benefit from nature to live more sustainably.
Chamaenerion angustifolium Known as fireweed, great willowherb or rosebay willowherb.
Family: Onagraceae.
Genus: Chamaenerion.
Species: C. angustifolium.
When and how to forage
Fireweed is a common sight in Nordic summer fields. This weed is a true colonizer and rapidly spread leaving no or little space to other…
Urtica dioicaKnown as common nettle, stinging nettle or stinger.
Family: Urticaceae.
Genus: Urtica.
Species: U. dioica.
Of all the wild herbs, nettle has to be my favorite of them all. It is something very familiar to me, that I’ve eaten since childhood. In our garden we left on purpose a little…
This is an introduction to section of The Adagio Blog called “Nordic Foraging”, where you will find all the knowledge I have acquired in this years concerning Nordic foraging. Nordic foraging aims to be a guide to the wild, to discover how we can benefit from nature to live more sustainably.
In the previous post we saw what are chaga mushrooms’ benefits and how to find it.
Once you have picked your chaga, you’ll have to go through three steps: cleaning, drying and storing.
Cleaning
Clean the chaga from all the dirt and pieces of wood. Since it has cracks and creeks in…
This time we’ll talk about a really precious gift that Finnish nature gives us.
Chaga mushroom (or Inonotus obliquus, Latinisation of the Russian term ‘чага’ ), is a fungus. It grows only in dead or dying trees, but it should be collected only from living trees because, in a dead…
