ForageSF blog
Field notes, recipes, and wild food guides.
Mushrooms, seaweed, sourgrass, edible weeds, Bay Area food history, and the occasional dispatch from farther afield.
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A few useful entries before you fall into the deeper archive.
Wild Lettuce for Health
A high-interest archive guide to wild lettuce, plant ID, and the old medicinal stories around it. Read it as field knowledge, not medical advice.
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This is My Favorite Way to Cook Wild Mushrooms
A practical cooking note about letting wild mushrooms taste like themselves instead of burying them under technique.
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Where to Harvest Seaweed and How to Eat It
A classic coastal guide from the archive for people curious about edible seaweed and the Bay Area shoreline.
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Oxalis: That's Sour Grass to all you kids out there
A field-note style entry on sourgrass, the plant behind the current run of recipes in the blog archive.
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The blog is a field guide, recipe box, and archive of old ForageSF curiosities.
Latest notes.
Recent posts from the ForageSF blog, cleaned up into a calmer reading grid.
From Forage Bali: The Wealthy Morning
A short field note from the Forage Bali side of the archive.
Read moreFrom Forage Bali: Woman as a Hand of Culture
A travel and food-culture dispatch from the wider Forage world.
Read moreFrom Forage Bali: One Perfect Day in the Rice Fields
A rice-field note that keeps the blog feeling personal and observant.
Read moreBaby Shiitakes (Organically Grown): A Flavorful and Nutritious Delight
Tender cultivated shiitakes, simple cooking context, and a good mushroom rabbit hole.
Read moreAbalone Mushrooms (Cultivated - California):
A meaty cultivated mushroom with texture, cooking notes, and a few ways to treat it well.
Read moreSourgrass Chicken and Dumplings Soup
Comfort food with sourgrass brightness folded into a familiar soup.
Read moreSourgrass Clam Chowder
A coastal chowder entry that connects the recipe archive back to sea and shore.
Read moreSourgrass Pumpkin Soup
A warm seasonal soup built around pumpkin, spice, and the tang of sourgrass.
Read moreSourgrass Bean Soup
A simple bean soup from the sourgrass recipe run.
Read moreDeep archive.
Older guides and recipes that are still useful entry points.
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