Forager Chick

Forager Chick We are a local private farm that specializes in herbal products & remedies, homemade breads, sustainable living and teaching others how to do the same.
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Forager Chick is the owner of Bella Vista Farm - a local private farm that specializes in teaching others to live a more sustainable life through foraging, herbalism and plant/mushroom identification

This starts tomorrow!! It is FREE to sign up. My talk is Thursday morning but go get your tickets today.
10/07/2024

This starts tomorrow!! It is FREE to sign up. My talk is Thursday morning but go get your tickets today.

October 8 -10, 2024 Nature’s Remedy’s that Work! A 3-day virtual event designed to empower you to take care of your own and your family’s health needs naturally using remedies you make yourself from herbs growing in your own garden. GET YOUR FREE TICKET Confidently growing herbs and making you...

Hey folks!! Some of you may know that I am in the Ultimate Explorer Challenge. I made it to the quarter finals!! Would y...
09/24/2024

Hey folks!! Some of you may know that I am in the Ultimate Explorer Challenge. I made it to the quarter finals!! Would you please vote for me? And share with a friend or 2 or 10, lol. I would greatly appreciate it and it is free to vote 1x each day. Thank you ❤️

Anne-Marie Bilella could win $10,000, embark on a personalized national park expedition in a Winnebago RV, and appear in Outside Magazine.

Come join us at the FREE Herbal Solutions Summit October 8-10! I cannot wait to present at this online event with some A...
09/23/2024

Come join us at the FREE Herbal Solutions Summit October 8-10! I cannot wait to present at this online event with some AMAZING instructors!!

October 8 -10, 2024 Nature’s Remedy’s that Work! A 3-day virtual event designed to empower you to take care of your own and your family’s health needs naturally using remedies you make yourself from herbs growing in your own garden. GET YOUR FREE TICKET Confidently growing herbs and making you...

I have a few tickets available for the Wild Herbal Series - class 6 Herbal Soaps, Salves and Lotions. Here is the link w...
09/18/2024

I have a few tickets available for the Wild Herbal Series - class 6 Herbal Soaps, Salves and Lotions. Here is the link with all the info if you want to learn how to make lye soap and go home with soaps and salves!!

Wild Herbal Series - Class 6 Soap Making, Salves & Lotions Have you ever wanted to make your own herbal & beauty products? In this class you will make your own lye herbal soap and infuse oils for salves and lip balms. We will take those infused oils and...

Love this as medicine! It is pretty cool to see in person too.
08/25/2024

Love this as medicine! It is pretty cool to see in person too.

The ghost pipe (Monotropa uniflora) is not a smoking utensil used by spooky spirits. It's actually a really cool native plant found throughout most of the country.

Don't be fooled. The ghost pipe is not a fungus. Sure, it lacks chlorophyll and every time if steps into a bar it shouts "I'm a fun guy," but that's just ghost pipe trying to be funny. This mushroomy looking plant isn't dependent on light for photosynthesis. So how does it get nutrients and survive?

It's a heterotrophic organism, meaning it has to get its food from an outside source. Ghost pipe saps nutrients and carbohydrates from tree roots through an intermediate source, myccorhizal fungi. So even though ghost pipe isn't a fungi, it uses fungi to get it's nutrients! Brilliant.

Look for this ghostly flower when it blooms from June through September.

Photo at Trempealeau National Wildlife Refuge by Dana M. Schelling/USFWS

Cool shot of some baby honey mushrooms 🍄 You can even see the little "hairs" on the caps.These were teeny tiny!!!
08/24/2024

Cool shot of some baby honey mushrooms 🍄 You can even see the little "hairs" on the caps.

These were teeny tiny!!!

A "Use What You Got" meal.Sometimes it is a challenge to use up leftovers and you gotta get creative. I don't want food ...
08/22/2024

A "Use What You Got" meal.

Sometimes it is a challenge to use up leftovers and you gotta get creative. I don't want food to go to waste!

Yeah, the critters on the farm can eat all the leftovers we don't use but...

Isn't it better when you can create a dish from just what you have in the fridge and cupboards?

Asian dishes are a good choice for leftovers.
I had a little bit of rotisserie chicken, half a carrot, kale, half an onion, spoonful of fried corn, a cup of Jasmine rice, some cilantro that needed to be used and mushroom bacon.

I sauteed the onion and carrots in avocado oil, added the kale and chicken plus coconut aminos, fresh ginger, crushed red pepper and cooked a few minutes.

Added some hot sauce, put everything over rice and topped with cilantro and crispy mushroom bacon bits!!

This is a keeper!!

What is your favorite way to use leftovers??

Please keep voting until the end of day Thursday the 22nd. So far I am still in first in my group. Say a prayer,  cross ...
08/18/2024

Please keep voting until the end of day Thursday the 22nd. So far I am still in first in my group. Say a prayer, cross fingers I make it to the top 20!! ❤️🙏❤️🙏

Go ahead and place your vote! You can vote every 24 hours.
https://ultexplorer.org/2024/anne-marie-bile-x8Xo

This is an incredible opportunity for me to hopefully win the Ultimate Explorer challenge. Follow along on my adventure!!

Copy and paste the link below to see my contestant profile. ❤️❤️❤️

ultexplorer.org/2024/anne-marie-bile-x8Xo

Go ahead and place your vote! You can vote every 24 hours.https://ultexplorer.org/2024/anne-marie-bile-x8XoThis is an in...
08/11/2024

Go ahead and place your vote! You can vote every 24 hours.
https://ultexplorer.org/2024/anne-marie-bile-x8Xo

This is an incredible opportunity for me to hopefully win the Ultimate Explorer challenge. Follow along on my adventure!!

Copy and paste the link below to see my contestant profile. ❤️❤️❤️

ultexplorer.org/2024/anne-marie-bile-x8Xo

Sometimes you just gotta have comfort food. Especially after watching the  I watched Girl Meets Farm and she made this C...
08/11/2024

Sometimes you just gotta have comfort food. Especially after watching the

I watched Girl Meets Farm and she made this Chicken & Biscuit Spinach Artichoke casserole.

It needed to be tweaked to what I had.
🍗 leftover rotisserie chicken
🍄 my homemade cream of mushroom soup with shiitakes
🌱 artichoke hearts
🌿 lambsquarters, aka wild spinach
🍃 parsley
🍗 leftover gravy
🌽🧅 veggies
*cream cheese and pecorino romano
AND
Homemade biscuits.

This is a keeper!!! Delicious and easy, peasy!


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We made the AJC!!! Woohoo - feeling the many blessings.
08/08/2024

We made the AJC!!! Woohoo - feeling the many blessings.

For years farm-to-table has been in the forefront of the movement toward local, fresh and sustainable ingredients. Restaurants and at-home cooks proudly rejoice in the freshness, the ability to identify the farm where each ingredient originated and tout the relationship with farmers.

The elusive Black Trumpet mushroom.Almost as elusive as the morel. These little babies can hide right in front of your e...
08/07/2024

The elusive Black Trumpet mushroom.

Almost as elusive as the morel. These little babies can hide right in front of your eyes.

I find these to be one of the most delicious out of all mushrooms! So smokey and savory. I add them to pizza, dips, sauces, eggs and more!!

Making Herbal Tinctures is a skill needed in your life. Especially nowadays with all the craziness in the world.Creating...
08/06/2024

Making Herbal Tinctures is a skill needed in your life. Especially nowadays with all the craziness in the world.

Creating herbal remedies is part of the old ways. All medicine started out in this simple form at one time.

There are so many different remedies you can make with herbs and mushrooms.

We still have 3 classes left in the Wild Herbal Series!!
If you want to join in one of them go to foragerchick.com click on Learn and pick from the drop down menu.

Our next class is Herbal Notebooks, Basket Making and a field trip to an Organic herb and veggie farm. I do have 4 spaces available.

🌸 What is your favorite Herbal remedy to make?
Let me know down below!
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One of the MOST beautiful mushrooms, in my opinion. This is Lactarius indigo or otherwise known as the Blue Milky!It "mi...
07/28/2024

One of the MOST beautiful mushrooms, in my opinion. This is Lactarius indigo or otherwise known as the Blue Milky!

It "milks" a blue latex, has beautiful, vibrant blue gills and the cap is light blue with blue concentric rings.

They do not keep their color well so best eaten the same day!!

Do you have a favorite pretty mushroom???

Fresh chicken of the woods will be at the Monroe Farmers Market and Barrow County Farmers Market tomorrow with Miller's ...
07/27/2024

Fresh chicken of the woods will be at the Monroe Farmers Market and Barrow County Farmers Market tomorrow with Miller's Mushrooms

I have TWO spaces open in the Herbal Tinctures weekend this Saturday and Sunday. :) I know it is last minute but space o...
07/24/2024

I have TWO spaces open in the Herbal Tinctures weekend this Saturday and Sunday. :) I know it is last minute but space opened up in this 4th class of the Wild Herbal Series.

This is the 4th Month in the Wild Herbal Series Even if you have missed the others, this class stands alone and builds on the others. We will be making lots of different tinctures this weekend!! Learn to extract herbs and mushrooms using app...

Who else is loving this rain? My garden is happy, the Wild plants are happy and mushrooms will come!
07/08/2024

Who else is loving this rain? My garden is happy, the Wild plants are happy and mushrooms will come!

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