I've been to the East, I've been to the West, I've been to Lopez Island: getting outside
Spring can be a chancy season for getting outside in the Pacific Northwest. Is it early summer, or late spring, or a lingering winter?...
Honey Holes and Secret Spots: the Currency of Foraging
Hank Shaw is an avid forager and hunter in California, and author of several super great cookbooks for wild food. His website, Hunter...
Digging Holes For Fun and Food
For simple fun there's nothing quite like digging a hole. Said no one ever. Digging for clams, however -- now there's a ticket to the...
How to Say Goodbye with a Pig
Beth and Doug were headed to Vietnam for a year. To wish them fair winds and happy travels, we put on a little dinner party. It also...
Foragers Dinner Club November 2015
The winter Foragers Dinner Club dinner does not disappoint. Persimmons are largely to blame. Winter is a tough season for the forager. ...
Dare To Be Square West 2015
A story of how square dance culture is surviving the test of time, because nerds. My favorite square dance t-shirt says something...
Hunting and getting and the distance between
Rather than tell people I'm going hunting, I should probably say I'm going to walk a great distance across a lonely landscape with the...
Eyes down, forks up
A walk about the neighborhood yields a meal or three. It's common to think about wild mushrooms as being a far-off, deep forest, high...
Ye Olde Attic Arrow Shoppe
In which we fletch us some arrows in gaudy fashion. Also some brain science. Archery has, like most other sports, gone through a...
Finally Chanterelles!
A September mushrooming outing somewhere near Skykomish. Maybe. Mushroom hunters have a reputation for obfuscating their picking spots. ...
