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Private dinner last week using only the freshest of spring ingredients available here in Southern NY!Made a beautiful sp...
06/16/2026

Private dinner last week using only the freshest of spring ingredients available here in Southern NY!

Made a beautiful spring tea with strawberries, wild mint and elderflowers, followed up with a tart cherry and raspberry agrodolce that went over top burrata and fresh whole wheat bread.

Next was a spring salad of fresh farm greens, strawberries, snow peas, asparagus with a lovely champagne strawberry vinaigrette.

Main course was mouthwatering aged ribeye steak, with spring vegetables like asparagus, milkweed flower buds and morels finished with ramp butter and wild bergamot (nature's oregano crossed with thyme)!

If you're interested in doing a private dinner or meal prep for you and your family in the future, care about quality ingredients and the people who grow/raise them, link is in my bio to reserve! I'm here to get you closer to your food one meal at a time!

Don't worry I'm not dead, just busy learning a bunch of amazing stuff from amazing people out here in NY.Photo drop from...
05/06/2026

Don't worry I'm not dead, just busy learning a bunch of amazing stuff from amazing people out here in NY.

Photo drop from the past few months that I've been dark, honestly taking a break from social media does the mind right and opens your brain up for more hands on knowledge to be learned. I'll be back on periodically sharing some cool stuff, stay tuned 👌🧐

Pretty hard to force a year full of memories/ experiences into just 20 shots, but if 2025 taught me anything it was that...
01/09/2026

Pretty hard to force a year full of memories/ experiences into just 20 shots, but if 2025 taught me anything it was that people make our moments and experiences that much more special. Not money, or any material goods, people and the emotions and knowledge we all share with one another.

From foraging classes that I both taught myself and with others including my good buddy , to learning from others about the land and plants/fungi and animals we share this beautiful world with (.craft thank you so much for what you do and the insanely detailed knowledge you put forward in the herbalism world).

To taking some beautiful trips this year, one of which was to Savannah, GA where the food and the environment was so welcoming and beyond flavor, not to mention the amount of urban foraging available down there was mind blowing (pic. 1 loquats were by far the best new sold ingredient I've found this year).

My sister got married and it was such a beautiful experience and reception to get to be a part of and have family together. And recently I found out that my younger sister will be having her first kid this upcoming year and I will be an uncle to a second niece!!!

Cooking at the Midwest wild harvest festival thanks to my good friend and legend , as well as .swensonschilling is always a great time and we all get to get together and cook for an amazing group of people in the wild food/survivalist world and I love the tradition it is seeming to become.

And coming back home to the best dog a man could ask for in Ozzy, where we rescued him from being abandoned in a field.

But all this year wouldn't have been possible though if it wasn't for the most wonderful and supportive person and partner . You've helped me see the man I can truly become and pushed me to follow my dreams, which will be a new chapter this year starting

Just goes to show that life is all what you make it and believe in, and none of it being possible if it wasn't for the support systems we all have around us! Cheers to 2026, love y'all! 💚🧡

09/06/2025

It's that time of year again, autumn olive season has arrived!!

It's been a weird year for them here in central to lower Michigan and many shrubs are not producing like they usually do in this new prairie spot I recently discovered, which is probably a good thing honestly.

But when they grow in such abundance such as in this video it's hard to stop picking them for the freezer to last throughout the winter!

A wonderful tasting berry that is reminiscent of apricots, it is nice and sour, sweetening as the fall progresses, and is a little like nature's sour patch candy to me!

I encourage anyone to harvest this berry as much as possible as it is highly invasive and well established here in the US so the best way to limit its spread in my opinion is to harvest as much as possible, efficiently as possible!

Fruits are high in vitamin C and seeds which are also edible are high in omega 3's so if you can get over the sourness of them at first, I guarantee you'll love adding these into your diet.

Just make sure when harvesting that the berries have those special silver speckles on them and the back of the leaves have that wonderful silver shine to them to avoid picking it's other invasive friend buckthorn which is not edible or palettable.

Rule #1 in foraging, always know what your picking is what it is 100% of the time, otherwise don't eat it!!! Safety first, healthy food in the fridge or freezer second! Happy fall y'all.

What we decided to pick up from our CSA this week! 🙌🤩🤌✅Fresh farm eggs ✅Variety of cherry tomatoes✅Mixture of beans (dra...
08/13/2025

What we decided to pick up from our CSA this week! 🙌🤩🤌

✅Fresh farm eggs
✅Variety of cherry tomatoes
✅Mixture of beans (dragon tongues, royal burgundy, and green beans)
✅Pickling cucumbers
✅Farm carrots
✅Sweet corn
✅Athena cantaloupe
✅Mirabelle plums

There was also an elderberry bush outside that they propagated and let me take a few berries home to make syrup this year!! 🫐🫐 Bonuses of joining like minded people and just simply asking!!

Thank you for all the good work you do and the bounty you provided for people to join and take home through your CSA program, couldn't be happier!!

Had an amazing time teaching people about foraging this past Sunday at our foraging class with !! We talked about differ...
07/29/2025

Had an amazing time teaching people about foraging this past Sunday at our foraging class with !!

We talked about different edible and medical plants along the way, and Kevin did a great job explaining the importance of local tree relationships to mushrooms, including some golden and red chanterelles we were able to show the class!!

🌱🫐 Plants we talked about along the way included:
✅Wild bergamot or monarda (Monarda fistulosa)
✅Dewberry's (Rubus spp.)
✅Staghorn sumac (Rhus typhina) with a pic of me testing it's sourness 😂
✅Stinging nettle (Urtica diocia)
✅Eastern red cedar (Juniperus occidentalis) and it's 'berries'
✅Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca)
✅Curly dock (Rumex crispus) and it's seeds
✅Wild raspberries (Rubus idaeus & occidentalis)
✅Wild carrot (Daucus carota)
✅Autumnberry/ olives (Elaeagnus umbellata)
✅ Lambsquarters (Chenopodium spp.)
✅And many more!!!
🍄 Golden chanterelles (Cantharellus cibarius)
🍄 Red chanterelles (Cantharellus cinnabarinus)
🍄 Fishy milkcaps (Lactifluus volemus)
🍄 Bi-colored boletes (Boletus bicolor)

All goes to show how much wild food there is around us to go out and forage for free!! 🙌🤩💰‼️👌

Thank you to all who came including , look forward to collaborating more with y'all to help teach more people about how to take advantage of the beautiful spaces we share around us!

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Foraging class this July 27th with my friend and mushroom ID expert at Bald Mountain State Rec. Area. We'll be talking...
07/12/2025

Foraging class this July 27th with my friend and mushroom ID expert at Bald Mountain State Rec. Area. We'll be talking about a wide range of plants from edible to non-edibles and how to differentiate them as well as many summer mushrooms popping up around that time!

Class starts at 11am, tickets are available at the link in my bio! Would love to see some new faces there and teach you more about how to see the parks around us in a different edible light!

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