Category Archives: Wild Food Harvesting
After seven years, I tagged my first deer!
Cooking tasty bear chops is simple – Cooking Wild Game
Breakfast with dandelions
Dandelion greens – those things my mother made me eat as a child and then said, “Don’t screw your face up like that, they’re good.” They weren’t good. They weren’t. Nothing made them good…except time. I don’t know why. They’re dandelion greens. They haven’t changed. But now they taste good. Mum would laugh and say, […]
The weather was lousy on opening day of turkey season but that didn’t stop me
Maine Maple Sunday recipe – grilled dirty maple shrimp
It was so cold the sap wasn’t running but that didn’t stop Chandler’s Sugar Shack from opening up on Maine Maple Sunday. The sap did run briefly but it was just enough to flush the lines between 3,100 taps. They aren’t too discouraged because it’s going to warm up later this week and when it […]
Remembering outdoors lessons from Mum
Ice fishing with college students who help shape our outdoors
Before she went back to Unity College for the new semester Taylor and I made plans for a weekend of ice fishing, home cooked food and hanging out. She arrived home Saturday morning with Rebecca Zirlin, Grainne Dougherty and Connor Shaw. They unloaded the truck, changed into warm clothes and loaded the truck. Steve left […]
There’s still time to pick mushrooms
BOW Intro Skills Weekend has openings
The board of directors of Friends of Maine BOW met Wednesday Evening at the Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife. Emily MacCabe, BOW coordinator for the state, gave us an update. There are still openings for Introductory Skills Weekend and a few of the workshops are full. The cut off date to apply for a […]
Picking Chanterelle Mushrooms
Becoming an Outdoors-Woman, 2013 Intro Skills Weekend
It’s time! Last year’s Introductory Skills Weekend filled quickly and had a long waiting list. Emily MacCabe, coordinator of Maine BOW, released the workshop schedule and registration form (opens a pdf file) this afternoon. The cost of the weekend is $225. The fee includes meals from Friday’s through Sunday’s lunch, all equipment, bunking in a […]
Hunting Eastern wild turkeys
Smelting at Flood Brook
I’ve wanted to go smelting for years. The last time I went I was seven and a half months pregnant with our first child and Dad took me to dip smelts in the Penobscot River. That “child” is now 28. Uncle Bobby would go smelting, come to our house and clean a bucket of smelts […]
Making maple syrup at Chandler’s Sugar Shack
Bear Sausage Quiche
I Love and Hate the Wild Turkeys
It’s no secret that I don’t love the wild turkeys. It’s not an exaggeration some days to say I hate the huge feathered, giant flying crap machines. Their introduction to this corner of northern Washington county is enough to make me ask out loud “why weren’t they thinking when they decided to do this?” My […]
You Can Take the Girl Out of the Woods
You can take the girl out of the woods when she moves to Boston but you can’t take the love of the outdoors out of my girl. It started in December when we gave Kristin and Matt their non-resident fishing licenses for Christmas. Kristin is our oldest daughter. She’s engaged to Matt. Kristin hasn’t been […]