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Small group, hands-on foraging, fishing, arts, crafts, and cooking excursions crafted to deepen our relationships with the natural world.
Pop-Up dinners featuring artists, scientists, and regenerative and wild food.
Hand-made and upcycled products by artists.
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Pine Cone Syrup
Pine Cone Syrup MAKES ABOUT 2 CUPS 2 cups young green pine cones (8 to 12,depending on size), washed and wood ends snipped off 2 cups...
Maria Finn
May 71 min read


Piney Chartreuse Swizzle
From Forage. Gather. Feast. Photo by Marla Aufmuth MAKES 1 DRINK 1 1/ 2 ounces (3 tablespoons) green chartreuse 1/ 2 ounce (1 tablespoon)...
Maria Finn
May 71 min read


Elderflower French 75
MAKES 1 COCKTAIL 1 ounce gin 1 ounce Elderflower and Lemon Simple Syrup Ice 3 ounces sparkling wine or champagne Lemon twist, for garnish...
Maria Finn
May 71 min read


Ume Plum, Lemon, and Elderflower Tonic
MAKES 1 MOCKTAIL 15 ounces high- quality tonic 2 tablespoons ume plum paste (see note) 1/ 4 cup Elderflower and Lemon Simple Syrup Juice...
Maria Finn
May 61 min read


Elderflower & Lemon Cordial
The elderberry bush is popular in landscaping, so there’s no telling where you will find one of these. Elderflowers appear as modest...
Maria Finn
May 51 min read


Morel, Asparagus & Wild Arugula Farro Salad with Preserved Lemon Dressing
Morels are prized for their rich, savory flavor. They grow in mixed conifer forests at higher Photo by Foodwise altitudes. In the years...
Maria Finn
Apr 252 min read


Spring Gardens
The earth is you. You are the earth. When you realize there is no separation you fall completely in love with this beautiful planet....
Maria Finn
Apr 212 min read


Sonoma Coast Travel
Sonoma is a vast county with rolling hillsides where happy cows graze, grids of wine grapes, orchards a plenty and a rugged, rich,...
Maria Finn
Apr 74 min read


Mendocino Coast Travel
The restaurant business is challenging in the best of times. Since 2020, these haven't been the best of times, particularly not in San...
Maria Finn
Apr 24 min read


Morel and Kombu Savory Jam
From Forage. Gather. Feast. Photo by Marla Aufmuth It’s always seemed a waste to me to compost the morels and kombu after making the...
Maria Finn
Mar 251 min read


Morel Mushroom & Kombu Dashi (GF, Vegan)
From Forage. Gather. Feast. Photo by Marla Aufmuth Dashi is a simple, subtle, and fragrant broth whose base layer of flavor is kombu...
Maria Finn
Mar 252 min read


Magnolia Vanilla Ice Cream
Spring—Persephone’s season, a time of renewal and abundance. By Ambre Arneodau How cool is it to be both the Queen of the Underworld and...
Maria Finn
Mar 112 min read


Wild Green Savory Galette
This is a simple stunner that makes good use of wild greens and those that are in your crisper that need to be used. Almost any type of...
Maria Finn
Mar 113 min read


Creative Destruction
We are living in a time of deep uncertainty. The guardrails are off the federal government and we have no idea what will happen next to...
Maria Finn
Mar 113 min read


Preserved Lemons
From Forage. Gather. Feast. photo by Marla Aufmuth In my neighborhood, lemons thrive in the foggy, never too-cold or hot microclimates....
Maria Finn
Mar 21 min read


Recipe: Hedgehog Mushroom & Wild Greens Warm Salad
Early spring in Northern California offers an overlapping of winter mushrooms and wild greens like miner’s lettuce, watercress, fennel,...
Maria Finn
Mar 22 min read


Fire, Water. & Memories
“Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am...
Maria Finn
Jan 213 min read


Mushroom Song, Seaweed Murmurings and Our Animal Selves
You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Mary Oliver But what if you don’t know what your animal body loves?...
Maria Finn
Nov 26, 20243 min read


Porcini Butter (From Forage. Gather. Feast.)
If you have some cosmetically challenged pieces of porcini, whip up this butter and gift to your favorite people, or serve at a dinner...
Maria Finn
Oct 29, 20241 min read


Porcini and Rosemary Skewers (From Forage. Gather. Feast.)
Photo by Josh Lutz Mushroom skewers are a life hack. They’re simple, elegant, and people seem to like the novelty of eating food off a...
Maria Finn
Oct 29, 20242 min read
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