

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...


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...


Diving for Oysters on Vashon
In which an undersea adventure yields tasty treats at moderate risk to life and limb. Lessons are learned. I visited Paul and Hillary...


Snails for dinner! You heard me.
Foragers Dinner Club, in which snails are introduced as a locally foraged protein, alongside salmon, pheasant, and crab. The gardens...


Jive Turkey
The Urban Dictionary defines "jive turkey" as: One who speaks as though they know what they are talking about...though they do not. Which...


No Stone Unturned
This mother's day the family went for an outing to Anderson Island. One of the San Juans, you say? No. Uh...isn't it that one next to...


Morel Real Things
Fire morels are my favorite thing to find in the wild. At least until winning lottery tickets start turning up in the duff. Morel...


Orienteering, Monkey Brains, and the Dopamine Economy
I'm a big fan of orienteering, which is the sport of racing using navigation skills and a map and compass. At a recent orienteering...