New Mexico Foraging Calendar

The mesas and canyon country of New Mexico's eastern plateau with prickly pear, cholla, juniper berries, and wild plum in canyon-bottom drainages cutting through the red rock landscape.

Northwest New Mexico's canyon and mesa country including the Chaco region, with piñon pine nuts, juniper berries, prickly pear, and wolfberry in a landscape with both Puebloan and contemporary foraging traditions.

The Sangre de Cristo Mountains and other New Mexico ranges where the summer monsoon triggers boletes, chanterelles, and a rich variety of other edible mushrooms in the high-elevation spruce-fir and mixed conifer forest.

The Sacramento Mountains, Mogollon highlands, and Madrean sky islands of southern New Mexico with monsoon-driven mushroom flushes and a rich mix of Chihuahuan and Rocky Mountain flora at the transition zone.

Eastern New Mexico's shortgrass and mesquite grasslands with wild onion, prairie turnip, and yucca fruit in the narrow native grassland remnants between agricultural and ranch land.

Southern and western New Mexico's high desert basin with sotol crowns, lechuguilla hearts, prickly pear, cholla buds, and agave fruit available in the cooler seasons of this botanically rich desert.