Our Specialty Harvests

PictureOur "Spring Wild Salad Mix" and "Stinging Nettles" at a local co-op.
At Seasonally Sourced Foods, we work hard to deliver great value to our customers by making available some of the very best specialties the Upper Midwest has to offer. 

Our changing selection of wild produce and specialty crops is traditionally available at local farmer's markets, grocery and retail stores, as well as select restaurants.

Overview of Our Unique Selection

Take a moment to browse our list and photos of some of the past harvests Seasonally Sourced Foods has made available.

Suppport your local farmer and forager and email us today to get more details on our year-round and seasonal product offerings!
Spring:
  • Root crops, including wild parsnips, sunchokes, skirret, marshmallow cattail rhizomes, burdock root
  • Salad greens, including basswood leaves, toothwort, garlic mustard, elm samaras, and wintercress
  • Cooking veggies, including stinging nettles, ostrich fern fiddleheads, and wild leek greens

Summer
  • Berries and fruits, including. juneberries, wild blackberries, chokecherries, wild plums, currants, and sumac berries
  • Cooking veggies, including milkweed pods, cattail hearts, wild sweet peas, and amaranth greens
  • Edible flowers, including red clover, chive, and black locust
  • Salad greens, including purslane, lamb's quarters, mallow, and wood sorrel
  • Wild mushrooms, including chantrelles, lobsters, hedgehog, black trumpets, plus cultivated wine caps
Fall
  • Berries and fruits, including wild grape, aronia berries, hawthorne berries, and black nightshade berries, elderberries, and nannyberries
  • Cooking veggies, including curly dock and watercress
  • Grains and nuts, including hand-harvested wild rice and hazelnuts
  • Wild mushrooms, including maitake, chicken-of-the-woods, oyster, and boxelder mushrooms

Winter:
  • Berries and fruits, including crabapples, mountain ash berries, and highbush cranberries
  • Wild mushrooms, including dried mushrooms from earlier in the season, and fresh reishi, chaga and turkey tail