Eat The Woods: 20 Wild Foods To Help You Stock The Pantry
DRFHN9 Close up of a Grizzly Bear feeding on Dandelions, Jasper National Park Alberta Canada. Brandon Smith / Alamy Stock Phot The pickup fish-tailed into my driveway just as I pulled the lawnmower...
View Article9 Bugs to Eat in a Survival Situation (And 4 You Want to Avoid)
If you have to eat grubs in a survival situation, roast them. Petra Göschel from Pixabay A good chunk of the world are fine eating the nearly 2,000 species of edible bugs that share the globe with us....
View ArticleYou Can Hunt, Fish, and Forage. But Can You Make Your Own Maple Syrup?
Glasshouse Images via Getty Images So you fancy yourself a self-sufficient sort? You fill the freezer with wild game and fish. You gather morels in the spring and grow a garden in the summer. Nothing...
View ArticleThe Best Way to Clean Morel Mushrooms
A mother lode of morels ready to be cleaned. Getty/ ABERRATION FILMS LTD/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Morel mushrooms are close to the perfect food. Abundant, delicious, and easy to identify, morels grow...
View ArticleSnack Smackdown: Jerky vs. Summer Sausage
Is jerky or summer sausage the better pick for a deer camp snack?. Editor’s note: As hunters and anglers, we don’t agree on everything. We’ve even been known to argue on occasion. That’s why this week...
View ArticleThe Beginner’s Guide to Picking and Cooking With Ramps
Ramps are only around for a few weeks in the spring. Cosmo Genova The arrival of spring means many things. Warm weather, turkey season, and trout fishing to name a few. But for a brief window, spring...
View ArticleIowa Mushroom Hunters Find Motherlode of Morels, Pick 175 Pounds in Two Days
Morel mushrooms usually pop up when daytime highs reach the 70s and nighttime lows are in the 40s. Ed Reschke / Getty Rusty Gates of Alexandria, Missouri, and Jimmy Johnson, of rural Keokuk, Iowa,...
View ArticleWhere to Find Morel Mushrooms This Spring
Found in much of the U.S. from late March through May, the morel is our favorite mushroom. Astanley64 As spring approaches, every forager, mushroom hunter, and turkey hunter wants to know: Where can I...
View ArticleDehydrating Food: Why to Do it, How to Start
Jack Hennessy Dehydrating food is considered one of our oldest—if not oldest—method for preserving food. For as long as our species has been gathering, foraging, and throwing spears at wild beasts, we...
View ArticleHow Long Do MREs Last?
Jennifer Caudill The need for survival food, such as MREs, in an outdoor emergency falls behind thermoregulation and hydration. However, the desire for food is both a physical need and increases...
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