Anchovies by Moonlight
Clusters of birds dive bombing the water and breaching humpbacks are a good sign that bait balls of small fish are on the move. These...
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Maria Finn
- May 9
- 3 min
Birds & Other States of Grace
“There arises first of all one question of the greatest importance and always attended with the same uncertainty, whether words, charms,...
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Maria Finn
- Apr 10
- 5 min
An Explosion of Flowers
“Ophelia: There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember. And there is pansies, that’s for thoughts. . . . There’s...
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Maria Finn
- Mar 21
- 4 min
Transforming Strangers and Sojourners into a City - with Trees
I’m prepping to lead a walking/edibles tour of Golden Gate Park for Odd Salon members on April 1st. (Sold out but we may schedule more!),...
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Maria Finn
- Feb 14
- 2 min
Truffles & Desire
For Valentine's Day this year, my dog Flora Jayne, and I are out hunting for truffles. This time of year they are seducing all manner of...
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Maria Finn
- Jan 30
- 2 min
The Season of Awe
The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper. ― W.B. Yeats Many of us in California are blinking...
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Maria Finn
- Jan 3
- 4 min
Chanterelles and the Exquisite Vein of Suffering
“An oak tree is an oak tree. That is all it has to do. If an oak tree is less than an oak tree, then we are all in trouble.” Thich Nat...
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Maria Finn
- Nov 22, 2022
- 3 min
Bugs & Infinite Striving
“Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone. ― Lord Byron This past weekend at Camp Earnest, we were...
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Maria Finn
- Nov 7, 2022
- 4 min
Nut Ambitions & Mushroom Addiction
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. Ralph Waldo Emerson I’m waiting for bay laurel nuts to get large and ripe enough to...
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Maria Finn
- Oct 11, 2022
- 3 min
Strange Beauty: Living in a Thin Place
“Beauty is the grandeur and elegance of experience that has come alive to its eternal depth and destiny. True beauty can emerge at the...
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Maria Finn
- Sep 20, 2022
- 2 min
Rain, Cultural Synesthesia & Other Upcoming Events
For some people, there are magenta Tuesdays, tastes that have shapes and wavy green symphonies. David Eagleman, “The Secret Lives of...
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Maria Finn
- Aug 11, 2022
- 2 min
About Bays
Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously...
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Maria Finn
- Jul 5, 2022
- 3 min
It's Raining Fish
An Athabascan woman who lived along the Yukon River in the interior of Alaska once told me that in her village, during summertime “Salmon...
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Maria Finn
- Jun 1, 2022
- 3 min
Rewilding Soil and Self
“It is estimated that skin has almost the same bacterial content as soil.” William Syrotuck from Scent and the Scenting Dog The impetus...
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Maria Finn
- May 2, 2022
- 2 min
Imaginal Cells and Edible Flowers
Nature has given us the ultimate example of change and transformation when the chubby, fuzzy caterpillars become the flutters of pure...
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Maria Finn
- Apr 6, 2022
- 3 min
Menus as Tales of Love and Adventure
What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the...
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Maria Finn
- Mar 30, 2022
- 6 min
Permissible Pleasures: In the Wake of the Périgord Truffle
I just returned from the Périgord region of France where the famous truffle got its name. Though now the area is known as the Dordogne,...
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Maria Finn
- Mar 11, 2022
- 1 min
Morel & Pine Tip Salt
When nature gives you a bounty, sometimes you have to dry or dehydrate it and save for lean times. This is also a good way to use the...
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Maria Finn
- Mar 11, 2022
- 1 min
Pickled Bladderwrack
Bladderwrack, (Fucus vesiculosus) is low hanging fruit in the foraging world. It appears early in the spring and is fo und on rocks along...
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Maria Finn
- Mar 11, 2022
- 2 min
Seaweed Butter
Seaweed infuses butter beautifully. The algae transforms as the cream tames the minerally, salty and even iodine flavors that seaweed can...
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