Wild Edibles

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.

Fayette County, West Virginia’s Mitchell Dech is one of my foraging mentors, and when he wants me to try an edible new to me … I’m ready to learn about it.

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

Cattails are native plants throughout the Blue Ridge.