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Marquette Grape

Pioneering grape carries an appropriate name. Jesuit missionary Jacques Marquette was two weeks shy of his 36th birthday while his exploration partner Louis Joliet was a 27-year-old philosophy student turned fur trader when they left St. Ignace, at the head of Lake Michigan, on May 17, 1673. In two canoes paddled by five voyageurs, they…

lambs quarters

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Abundant, Versatile Lamb’s Quarters

There are really no two ways about it: if you like spinach, you’ll like lamb’s quarters. It would be difficult to walk around Cape Cod’s green spaces without finding large stands of this wild edible plant lining roadsides and trails among the dandelions and raspberry brambles. Prolific in much of the northeastern United States, lamb’s…

charleston food and wine

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Charleston Food & Wine

  You may have visited Charleston during the summer when the air hangs heavy like spanish moss and the beaches are lined with visitors flocking to the city to soak up the sun. However, the spring offers a new set of opportunities for visitors and locals alike. Due largely in part to beautiful weather and…

Alex McNaughton foraging

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The Business of Foraging

Alex McNaughton puts B.C.’s forest bounty on the best restaurant tables. Even as a kid growing up in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island, Alexander McNaughton knew how to find wild edible treasure. “I probably picked chanterelles before I was 10 years old,” says McNaughton, whose childhood pastime grew into a career as a professional…

planting hops

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Untapped: New Mexico Hop Growers See Unlimited Future

  Five years ago, Diego Marlar, co-owner and founder of Stone Lizard Hops Farm in Belen, was enjoying a beer at a local brewery when he asked the bartender where the brewery sourced its hops. To his surprise, the answer, as it is for most New Mexico breweries, was the Pacific Northwest. Although the craft…

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