Foraging and Remembering
Posted in Animals, Plants, ecodreaming, foraging, mushrooms, tending the wild, wild food on May 13th, 2010
New video, again shot in early March. I’ve noticed how three of my favorite foraged foods are scarcely (if at all) eaten by wildlife. They require processing, namely heat (chanterelles and bay nuts both must be cooked before they are edible). This type of processing (at least on planet Earth) can [...]
When the weather get cold, and the light dims, and growth slows (aka, winter), apparently so does my blogging and making of videos. I spend a lot of time in the winter indoors (dark and rainy) and otherwise I’m pruning fruit trees and foraging for mushrooms, mostly chanterelles. But I never seem to make videos [...]
Or should I say, my favorite opening credit sequence of all time is from Know Your Mushrooms, a documentary that came out in 2009 by Ron Mann. Of course the Flaming Lips help, with an amazing new song, “Anything You Say Now, I Believe You.”
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It seems this time of year I don’t make a lot of posts or videos. I find myself hunkering down inside, as it’s cold, rainy, and dark outside. When I am out, I’m foraging for mushrooms and fruit tree pruning. Harvesting wild greens, making soups. Why don’t I film [...]
Posted in mushrooms on Jan 10th, 2010
Well, unless a lot of things actually. Like you consult with a local expert. You “see through native eyes” and are intimately familiar with the mushroom. But the one that I really want to reiterate here today after my class (which was a lot of fun, albeit not a good foraging [...]
On Saturday, I am teaching a class on Mushroom ID for newbies. (location listed with map below) If you are out picking wild mushrooms and eating them already this class is probably not for you. This is the class that I wish I could have had when I first started [...]
Posted in mushrooms on Jan 3rd, 2010
The mushroom class that I taught with Mia Andler today was a success! 24 people showed up and we found all sorts of mushrooms on our short walk, including blewiitts (Lepista nuda), various milkcaps (Lactarius) and little browns (LBM’s.) But we also found today a purple Cortinarius! The first [...]
Posted in local food, mushrooms, wild food on Mar 1st, 2009
Yesterday, I hiked into the hills to enjoy the bounty of all this rain! Everything was green and glowing with life; the air felt clean. The earth smelled delicious. As we found our way through the fields of grass, miner’s lettuce, and cleavers, we entered the tree canopy. Treading [...]
Posted in ecodreaming, ethnobotany, feralculture, mushrooms, permaculture, tending the wild, wild food on Feb 20th, 2009
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Feraltopia: An Ethnobotanical Park
Feraltopia aims to provide a place for foragers to gather and interact with wild plants and mushrooms. It also serves as a primitive [...]
Posted in ecodreaming, ethnobotany, mushrooms on Dec 24th, 2007
Most people don’t realize it, but the bright red mushroom with white spots, besides being iconic, is actually a real mushroom. It is called Amanita muscaria, or fly agaric, and is one of the easiest mushrooms to identify. In addition to the archetypal red with white spots, this mushroom also has white [...]
