Your Guide to Foraging in Wisconsin
Here’s how to identify Wisconsin’s edible plants, how to use them, where to go and some important best practices.
The Rundown
Color Run photo courtesy of Dani Hess The daughter of a college cross-country coach, Erin Feldhausen grew up running small 5-kilometer races around Green Bay, her hometown. Just as other families went to the movies or bowling, the Feldhausens went to the Rainbow Classic Run for Children with Cancer, the Algoma Shanty Days 5K Run/Walk and the Run for the Roses to Strike Out Arthritis. Dad paid $25 entry fees for the family of five, and they eyed the competition at the starting line, gathered their T-shirts, plaques and medals at the finish, and joined other families for leisurely postrace…
Yukon Gold
Cross-country skiing at Brown Deer Park. Photo by John Karpinsky Taryn Coles does more than endure winter in Milwaukee. She relishes it. When her colleagues at Marquette University begin to decry the snow and cold, she strikes out on the area’s cross-country ski trails. The 37-year-old fundraiser celebrates camaraderie, exercise and meditation during night skiing at Lapham Peak and afternoons spent gliding through the Kettle Moraine State Forest. She makes new friends inside warming shelters and next to roaring fires in lodges. “It’s the only way to survive the winter,” says Coles, who moved to Milwaukee from Seattle in 2008. “Everybody…