Northern Colorado has some of the best Canada goose hunting in the country if you can find access, afford a lease or be lucky enough to be invited to one. Low on decoys, I often wait for the last. So, when I get that call from a friend, usually someone I met through BHA, I try not to say no to their invitation.  This time the invite came from Colorado Chapter Co-Chair Donald Holmstrom. We headed to his lease and sat in the blind. As the geese lifted off the roost from a nearby lake, they ...

As hunters and outdoors folk, summer can be a bit of a restless time. Many of us are itching for our first cool fall morning in the field or tree stand. Foraging is a great way to get some wild foods on the table in the meantime, and it can be done easily in these months even while you are scoping out your fall hunting areas. There are numerous things we can forage this time of year. The first one I would like to recommend, and the one responsible for peaking my interest in foraging in the ...

This dish was the focus of Wade Truong’s live workshop at the North American Virtual Rendezvous. We’re bringing you this recipe as a follow up to that exclusive session. We hope you’re inspired to give it a try. There is something about smoky aromas and flavors that just makes food taste better. Not everyone will agree with this statement, but generally speaking, we as humans love food that has been cooked with burning wood. With most cooked foods, it's easy to introduce smoke. You simply ...

What do young D.C. lobbyists do when they're unable to hang out with friends and don't have brunch reservations? Well, they practices social distancing by avoiding grocery stores and preparing meals from ingredients stocked away in their pantries and freezers. Like a lot of people, I’ve been spending my time exploring meals that can be made with ingredients I have on hand and those that can be easily hunted, caught or foraged. Recently, I made red snapper sashimi with a recipe inspired from ...

I’m not going to write a love song here the way I normally might about the virtues of wild greens. My love for them is stronger than ever, but in these strange times it feels more appropriate to cut to the chase. Chances are you’ve got bigger things on your mind than the omega fatty acid ratios in wild greens vs. cultivated ones—things like your health, your loved ones, your job, your future. I’ll save the sonnets for another day. In uncertain times we reach for comfort food, but at the risk ...