Winter Foraging
Winter Foraging Winter is down time. I can use the shortened days and bad weather and long darknesses to rest and catch up and relax…and then suddenly days are getting longer and it is raining not snowing and I haven’t. Yes, winter foraging is a thing. Some of it is like summer, that quick trip into the world to taste its bounty. Some of it is the time winter gives for the long game of foraging: learning, observation, preparing, sharing. In central Maine we are alternating between thaw and snow and icy glaze has been the median weather this winter. I am not going anywhere. But I never stop foraging. At the holidays I told my husband, let’s shop in the house. So we each looked through our too many possessions for a treasure to gift the other, and were content. Dried mushrooms, fruit leathers, pickles, syrups and country liqueurs went out as gifts. Note to self: Design and make up preprinted labels with name and logo and a place for date, ingredients and comments for next y...