Wild Harvests

Thanksgiving has long been my favorite holiday.  On this day we celebrate nothing more than family, food, and friends.  The tradition of e...

A 7' long Bracken Fern More Bracken Fern ( Pteridium aquilinum ) experimenting….  I harvested several rhizomes from Dad’s proper...

Mark next to his Hazelnut dryer Our Garry Oak ( Quercus garryana ) and English Oak ( Quercus robur ) acorns had been drying for severa...

The day awoke clear and cold.  A thick frost glowed with un-warming light on the grass and chimney smoke puffed from glazed roofs in our n...

These last few days have been filled with more good-byes.   Friday I traveled up to Qualicum Beach to see a very important person in my ...

Katrina and I wanted to host a special meal for our friends to let them know how much we appreciate them before we leave Victoria and m...

Stalking the elusive acorn Acorn bread with acorns in different stages of processing in the background Today I led an acorn wo...

The last few days have been pretty quiet on the foraging front.  I made some more apple butter, and have cracked some acorns, but the majo...

Shin, Andra, Katrina, Scott, and I went mushrooming today out in Metchosin.  It started raining at almost the exact moment we entered the ...

Today we got to go Prawn fishing.  Ashley, a UVic Environmental Studies graduate student, works with a local fisherman (named Guy) to co...

Fall was in the air today.  It was sunny and cold as Katrina and I walked over to Beacon Hill Park to meet Ryan for some Apple picking.  W...

Members of the Capital Nut Tree Project had a meeting this evening not too far from our house so Katrina and I decided to check it out.  M...