This particular Persicaria will burn your mouth right off. #persicariapunctata #waterpepper 🌶️ for @peggytanpx @thewild.sf 🔥
La dulce vita. As usual my favorite parts of Italy were the wildlife parts. Swam with my first cuttlefish, branzino, dentex. Swam a lot. Dorked out hard on ancient olive trees, capers, figs (just free figs everywhere). Other discoveries included the
Midsummer sea foraging: Humboldt lobster Bahamian lobster Mexican yellowtail with @joe_cusenza Jr and Sr California barracuda bbq (don’t knock it till you try it) Seaweed 101 - rockweed with Tehya Seaweed 101 - bull kelp Sierra shrimp ⛈️ Moun
Team photo. Not sure how I would have made it through spring without these two. #teamwork
My first salmonberry! I know we have these in northern California but I’m never in the right place at the right time so it was exciting to see them lining the trails of Stanley Park. Blown away by the colors. I wasn’t in Vancouver to for
Another magical day in the mountains 🦖 💫 #rexveris #shootingstars
Just asparagus, but wild. Snapping the spears for the first time I quickly discovered why foragers love wild asparagus. It’s really fun to stalk. Meaty shoots hiding in tall grass. The dopamine hits were real. When I took my first bite it was s
🌸 Around this time last year I made an effort to wrangle the genealogy of our SF cherry trees: Prunus genus contains stone fruits like plum, cherry, peach, apricot, and almond. There’s a subgenus Cerasus that refers specifically to true cherr
So I’ve cooled off a bit and here’s what I want to say about MidPen’s Cypress Pt affordable housing development in Moss Beach. Some folks will support affordable housing development no matter what the circumstances. Others like me
🩸One of the reasons I love our coastal cypress. A glacial relict native to just a couple small bluffs in Monterey, these trees are so recent yet so ubiquitous I can’t imagine it here without them. Stands to reason that the mushrooms are even m
White gold! Anyone ever found pigmentless californicus before? A first for me. #cantharelluscalifornicus #statemushroom #albino #mushroomhunting #wildfoodlove
OK so these deserve a post this year. It’s always fun to discover when there’s an unusually large flush of one species or another. Man-on-horseback aka yellow knight aka canary trich is doing a full role call like I’ve never seen. T
Fun times to kick off the new year. May your basket overfloweth in 2024. Highlights so far include dungeness crab salad, dungeness crab and black trumpet gnocchi, dungeness crab and pork dumplings, hot steamed dungeness crab, and catching limits of
Garnishy things. Not as thrilling as uncovering mushrooms in a distant forest but they’re important to chefs and that makes them important to me 🙄 There’s a state of flow I enjoy in selecting the pretty little things. Like the whole wo
Nothing more fun than peak porcini and the fungal progression that follows. I’ve been putting more effort into greens and garnishy things lately, but my heart belongs to the forest floor 🤎 Pictured are two kinds of porcini (grandedulis and fi
I spend a lot of time scrutinizing nasturtium leaves. Just make them perfect, sounds easy enough. Not native to California but it’s been here for hundreds of years and will be here for…ever. One of our most welcome weeds, and one of the
25 weeks of coastal Claytonia. Let it be known that the longest season ever spanned the first day of winter through the last day of spring. And now it’s over so I won’t even look for it don’t ask for it I think that’s long en
Good things come in threes. Jackson is one of the few public forests where commercial mushroom gathering is permitted in California. But it’s one of the many public forests that are managed primarily for logging. It comes down to there being m
Highway raabery 🥦 Just boring mustard. This is the same species as napa cabbage and bok choy, but wild tastes better. Incredibly abundant and nutritious. Farmers spend a lot of money managing this weed. Gathering it is not part of the solution 😂
Primo poison oak. California foragers develop a healthy respect for this terrible plant. Here’s my protocol for hiking around poak: 1. Avoid it. Recognize it and try to notice every time you touch it. If you need to push through a little it&rs
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