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February’s Wild Edible: Fiddlehead Ferns

In decades and centuries past, settlers in these mountains consumed what they called the fiddleheads of ferns. But just what is a fiddlehead?

November’s Blue Ridge Mountain Apple Profile: The York

The York, also known as the York Imperial, originated – logically enough – in York, Pennsylvania, in the early 1800s.

October’s Blue Ridge Mountain Apple Profile: Roxbury Russet

The Roxbury, which ripens in September and October depending on elevation, rarely makes appearances even in country stores these days as it is decidedly not a “pretty apple” by modern standards of beauty.

January’s Wild Edible: Cattails

Cattails are native plants throughout the Blue Ridge.

Birds of the Blue Ridge: White-breasted Nuthatch

This “pointy” little bird announces itself with a distinctive nasal “honk.”

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Christmas fern fiddleheads are not edible and can be toxic.

February’s Wild Edible: Fiddlehead Ferns

In decades and centuries past, settlers in these mountains consumed what they called the fiddleheads of ferns. But just what is a fiddlehead?
York apples are a traditional Blue Ridge Mountains variety.

November’s Blue Ridge Mountain Apple Profile: The York

The York, also known as the York Imperial, originated – logically enough – in York, Pennsylvania, in the early 1800s.
Kirk Billingsley tasting cider at his Big Fish Cider business in Highland County, Virginia.

October’s Blue Ridge Mountain Apple Profile: Roxbury Russet

The Roxbury, which ripens in September and October depending on elevation, rarely makes appearances even in country stores these days as it is decidedly not a “pretty apple” by modern standards of beauty.
Clay Morris examining a cattail in a Shenandoah Valley pond.

January’s Wild Edible: Cattails

Cattails are native plants throughout the Blue Ridge.
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Birds of the Blue Ridge: White-breasted Nuthatch

This “pointy” little bird announces itself with a distinctive nasal “honk.”
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