An Athabascan woman who lived along the Yukon River in the interior of Alaska once told me that in her village, during summertime “Salmon...

“It is estimated that skin has almost the same bacterial content as soil.” William Syrotuck from Scent and the Scenting Dog The impetus...

Nature has given us the ultimate example of change and transformation when the chubby, fuzzy caterpillars become the flutters of pure...

What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the...

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,...

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...

Bladderwrack, (Fucus vesiculosus) is low hanging fruit in the foraging world. It appears early in the spring and is fo und on rocks along...

Seaweed infuses butter beautifully. The algae transforms as the cream tames the minerally, salty and even iodine flavors that seaweed can...

“Spring arrives with death still on her.” The Book of Difficult Fruit by Kate Lebo I had hoped to spend January through March surveying...

Happy 2022 from the intertidal zone, a cove off Richardson Bay, which makes up San Francisco Bay, the largest estuary of the Pacific...

Print by Tom Killion As I write this, there’s a rainbow arching from the clouds obscuring Tamalpais. It reminds me of a passage from...

Last Sunday an atmospheric river passed by over my home. Also known as a Pineapple Express, as the storm originated near Hawaii. It was...

We just had our first Wild Food Camp in Alaska and it was a rollicking adventure. Kachemak Bay is so stunningly beautiful that it never...

My friend Jay has been feeling sad – understandably so. He is a doctor who specializes in viruses and has had quite a roller coaster ride...

This is a super simple bread recipe that’s gluten free and has lots of protein and fiber. I took it from this website- and then add...

If you find yourself with a stash of dry seaweed, a great way to use it is to make kimchi. This is a ubiquitous fermented condiment in...

Seaweed is being touted as "the new kale." And a little while back, kale was the new spinach. So keeping with the green-hued culinary...

Dashi is a simple, subtle and fragrant broth usually made from Kombu seaweed and bonito, a tuna-like fish that is smoked and then shaved...

Photo by Marla Aufmuth Tangled clumps of seaweed strewn along beaches like fractal tales of the intertidal zone are indicators that the...

Food that is closer to the wild version will have more nutrients than highly domesticated vegetables – bitter and spicy has been replaced...