foraging Plants wild food Miner’s Lettuce and Chickweed — wild winter greens These are extraordinarily common wild and deliciously edible plants that grow here in the winter and spring. They are cool…
Animals ecodreaming foraging mushrooms Plants tending the wild wild food Chanterelles, Bay Nuts, and Nettles: Wild Permaculture Guild? New video, again shot in early March. I’ve noticed how three of my favorite foraged foods are scarcely (if at…
foraging mushrooms wild food Wild Chanterelle Winter When the weather get cold, and the light dims, and growth slows (aka, winter), apparently so does my blogging and…
Classes foraging mushrooms Plants wild food Chanterelle Wandering It seems this time of year I don’t make a lot of posts or videos. I find myself hunkering down…
ethnobotany foraging local food Plants wild food How to Eat Bay Nuts (Umbellularia californica) You roast them until dark brown, almost black. Like dark roasted coffee or dark chocolate. They contain caffeine like stimulants…
ethnobotany foraging Plants wild food Acorns leached whole John Farais, a chef specializing in Native American cuisine, has discovered a very cool way to leach these Valley Oak…
ethnobotany foraging Plants wild food Help! Acorn harvesters needed We in the Bay Area home of the Valley Oak (Lafayette/Walnut Creek area), are in a dire situation. We have…
ethnobotany foraging gardening local food Plants Uncategorized wild food Got Acorns? If all the acorns around you have got your feeling a little squirrely, here’s the short, short version of what…
foraging local food Plants wild food Food falling from the sky! It is another masting year for the Valley Oaks (Quercus lobata) here in the Bay Area, CA. They don’t have…