Wild Edibles

On our land in Botetourt County, Virginia, this round, white mushroom typically begins appearing in late June and continues to do so through the rest of the summer.

Numerous species of puffballs are native to the Blue Ridge, and certainly one of the most common ones is the dull-white gem-studded puffball.

For those of us who search for mushrooms in the Blue Ridge Mountains, April means it morel season, all month long.

Rising up through the soil this month is one of the most fascinating plants in the Blue Ridge Mountains…the lamb’s quarter.

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