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...

The Romantic movement […] was a passionate protest against universality of any kind. The values to which they attached the highest...

One evening I rolled up my sleeves, clicked on a podcast on Spotify, and took on the daunting task of cleaning out my cabinet where I...

Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love. ― Friedrich Nietzsche I recently read the fascinating book The Biology of...

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...

“There arises first of all one question of the greatest importance and always attended with the same uncertainty, whether words, charms,...

“Ophelia: There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember. And there is pansies, that’s for thoughts. . . . There’s...

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!),...

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...

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...

“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...

“Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone. ― Lord Byron This past weekend at Camp Earnest, we were...

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...

“Beauty is the grandeur and elegance of experience that has come alive to its eternal depth and destiny. True beauty can emerge at the...

For some people, there are magenta Tuesdays, tastes that have shapes and wavy green symphonies. David Eagleman, “The Secret Lives of...

Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously...

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