Filmed by my friend Tony Deis, founder of TrackersNW Wapato was once a staple starch food of indigenous people in the Pacific Northwest. The fun way to get it is to dance in the water, loosening the muck it grows in to send the bulbs floating to the surface. This is the technique my friends [...]
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Dancing for wapato
Posted in 1, tagged wapato, Wild Food Week on November 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Day Four: On sumac tea, conserving calories and collapse
Posted in Eat Weeds, Urban Foraging, Wilderness Survival, tagged Sumac, Wild Food Week on November 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The lessons I learned from the May experiment have served me well, and I have no doubt that I will make it to Day Seven with ease. I scouted my neighborhood in advance, so I don’t have much wandering to do. I also gathered as much as I could when it became seasonally available, like [...]
Day Three: Licorice fern and Earthly kindness
Posted in Eat Weeds, Urban Foraging, Wilderness Survival, tagged Chestnuts, licorice fern, Wild Food Week 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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