“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...

“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,...

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...