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.
Start here.
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.
Read the postBrowse by shelf.
The blog is a field guide, recipe box, and archive of old ForageSF curiosities.
Guide shelf
Mushrooms
Wild mushroom guides, cooking notes, and older mushroom-season posts.
Coastal shelf
Seaweed and coast
Seaweed, kelp, shore plants, shellfish, and coastal food notes.
Plant shelf
Edible plants
Sourgrass, wild onions, mallow, radish, salsify, and plant walks.
Health shelf
Plants and health
Wild lettuce, seaweed nutrition, herbal traditions, and safety-aware plant notes.
Recipe shelf
Recipes
Sourgrass soups, wild mushroom dishes, pickles, stuffing, and kitchen experiments.
Kitchen shelf
Wild kitchen
Older ForageSF cooking, market, field, and table stories.
Archive shelf
ForageSF stories
Company history, underground market notes, field walks, and archive oddities.
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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