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Our adventures are small group, hands-on foraging, fishing, arts, crafts, and cooking excursions crafted to deepen our relationships with the natural world. We also offer private experiences that be offsite or onsite.
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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 11, 20253 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 11, 20253 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 2, 20251 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 2, 20252 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 21, 20253 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


Shaved Porcini Salad (Serves 4)
Generally, I advise cooking mushrooms well for digestive and flavor purposes, but if you get a perfect little porcini chub, so ahead and...
Maria Finn
Oct 29, 20241 min read


Maria Finn
Oct 29, 20240 min read


Two Day Work Week
The theme throughout my cookbook, along with my foraging workshops and institute, is exploring how humans can become a keystone species...
Maria Finn
Oct 7, 20242 min read


The Last Peach
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...
Maria Finn
Sep 23, 20243 min read


Candied Pine Cones
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...
Maria Finn
Jul 20, 20241 min read


Flaming Pine Needle Mussels
Photo by Maria Finn Recipe from Forage. Gather. Feast. This is my favorite way to prepare mussels. It’s dramatic and delicious and...
Maria Finn
Jul 20, 20242 min read


Seaweed Butter from Scratch
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...
Maria Finn
Jul 20, 20242 min read


Seaweed, Seed and Nut Bread
From Forage. Gather. Feast. Photos by Marla Aufmuth Tangled clumps of seaweed strewn along beaches like fractal tales of offshore storms...
Maria Finn
Jul 20, 20243 min read


OCTOPUS GARDENS, WILD PERFUMES & ANCHOVIES
"Evolution built advanced minds not once, but at least twice, gifting them not only to mammals and their kin, but also to cephalopods,...
Maria Finn
Jul 20, 20243 min read


Volatile Spirits or the Joy of Smelling
Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only...
Maria Finn
Jun 16, 20244 min read


Here Comes the Sun
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...
Maria Finn
May 2, 20244 min read


Preserving Springtime
Thanks to ample rain and generous sunshine, it feels electric out there – multi-hued greens with splashes of color and floral fragrances...
Maria Finn
Apr 4, 20242 min read
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