“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...

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?...

If you have some cosmetically challenged pieces of porcini, whip up this butter and gift to your favorite people, or serve at a dinner...

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...

Generally, I advise cooking mushrooms well for digestive and flavor purposes, but if you get a perfect little porcini chub, so ahead and...

The theme throughout my cookbook, along with my foraging workshops and institute, is exploring how humans can become a keystone species...

Let the end come as the best parts of living have come unsought and undeserved inconvenien t - Rita Dove I’m starting to miss peaches...

We are going tree on tree with this one for a more foresty experience. Instead of sugar, try using maple syrup. The result should be...

Photo by Maria Finn Recipe from Forage. Gather. Feast. This is my favorite way to prepare mussels. It’s dramatic and delicious and...

From Forage. Gather. Feast. photo by Marla Aufmuth You can infuse cream with seaweed and make your own butter out of it. The most amazing...

From Forage. Gather. Feast. Photos by Marla Aufmuth Tangled clumps of seaweed strewn along beaches like fractal tales of offshore storms...

"Evolution built advanced minds not once, but at least twice, gifting them not only to mammals and their kin, but also to cephalopods,...

Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only...

Even after all this time The sun never says to the earth, “You owe Me.” Hafiz Sunday on Baker Beach started out calm, but the winds...

Thanks to ample rain and generous sunshine, it feels electric out there – multi-hued greens with splashes of color and floral fragrances...

Photo by Jaye Johnson “I want to think about trees. Trees have a curious relationship to the subject of the present moment. There are...

"In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt."-from Bluebeard’s Egg by Margaret Atwood Where two ecosystems overlap...

When planning events, I have to check the tides for seaweed, the moon phases for the kayak trips, the swell and wind for Dungeness crab,...

I was invited to give a cookbook talk at a major tech company on the Peninsula.  And then I was uninvited. Apparently wild food is too...