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Day Three: Licorice fern and Earthly kindness

Posted in Eat Weeds, Urban Foraging, Wilderness Survival, tagged , , on November 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »

For dessert, I chewed the sugary rhizomes of a licorice fern I found growing atop moss on a log at a wilderness area in Portland earlier today. A rhizome is a horizontally growing underground stem from which several stalks spring. Licorice fern rhizomes can be chewed like gum when raw, steamed or boiled. They are [...]

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Day One: Medicinal food and supernatural berries

Posted in Eat Weeds, Urban Foraging, Wilderness Survival, tagged , , , , , , on November 21, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Rinsing hawthorn berries I started the day with a nourishing tea made of pine needles, rose hips, mint and mallow greens, all gathered within a half block of my apartment in the city. It was more like a broth than a tea, because mallow has a gooey quality that thickened the mixture and gave it [...]

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Animals are teachers too

Posted in Eat Weeds, Urban Foraging, Wilderness Survival, tagged , , , on October 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »

City animals are fantastic teachers because they’re experts at surviving in the wild — even when the wild is an urban environment. When I gathered acorns with friends in the wilderness skills school TrackersNW, I was surprised by how tedious it can be to crack the shells and get to the eatin’. It took a [...]

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