Things I like to do in the Winter:
Make soup with Wild Foods I’ve preserved.
Play with plant fibers I’ve harvested to make jewelry cordage and other creative stuff.
Read novels with themes around botany, foraging or herbalism.
Plan next years’ Wild Food and Folk Medicine classes.
Go snowshoeing and enjoy the quiet woods.
Watch birds at my backyard feeder, which will contain some foraged seeds (yellow dock, plantain and amaranth) along with the ones I purchase at the store.
Forage! Even in a Wisconsin Winter, I can go pick some fresh pine needles for tea, or dig in the snow around those pine trees to find Wintergreen leaves and berries. I can harvest some Chaga mushrooms from Birch trees. I may be able to pick up some Black Walnuts that the squirrels left behind. I love the seasons in Wisconsin, and even though winter seems to take up most of the year, I love knowing that there are tasty treasures to hunt for in this frozen tundra.
The Friendly Forager 