Tennessee Foraging Calendar

Northeastern Tennessee's Ridge and Valley country at the heart of Appalachian foraging, with ramps, morels, hen of the woods, black walnuts, and pawpaws as seasonal staples.

The coastal-plain-influenced flatlands of West Tennessee, with huckleberries, blueberries, native persimmons, and muscadine grapes along the forest edges.

East Tennessee's high Appalachian country sharing the ramp, morel, and fall mushroom traditions of the Great Smoky Mountains, with extraordinary plant diversity in the cove hardwood forests.

Middle Tennessee's limestone plateau and river hills with ramps in cool hardwood hollows, spring morels in creek-bottom woodland, pawpaw thickets along streams, and abundant spicebush and black walnut.

West Tennessee's pine-hardwood and loess bluff woods, with huckleberries, elderberries, black walnuts, and warm-season chanterelles and chicken of the woods.

The Cumberland Plateau foothills and Tennessee Valley ridges with pawpaws, persimmons, and a long fall mushroom season in the mixed hardwood-pine forest of the transitional Appalachian region.

Far western Tennessee's bottomland hardwoods along the Mississippi River corridor with muscadine grapes, elderberries, and pawpaws in the alluvial forest understory of the low river delta country.