Category: Plants

July 12, 2016 / kirsten / Hiking

Trail report: Cow Heaven

Location and directions: Skagit County; from east-bound SR 20, turn left toward the Marblemount Ranger…

June 24, 2016 / kirsten / Garden

In my ongoing effort to complicate, er, enrich my life by figuring out how to…

June 2, 2016 / kirsten / Foraging

In her delightful cookbook Shroom, Becky Selengut describes foragers as “a secretive and paranoid lot.” You…

September 23, 2015 / kirsten / British Columbia

One of the wonderful yet deeply weird aspects of life in Bellingham is that you…

August 31, 2015 / kirsten / Hiking

After a hot and often smoky summer, rain was a welcome relief this past weekend,…

August 24, 2015 / kirsten / Hiking

Finding pockets of species diversity in the midst of land pressed into the service of…

August 24, 2015 / kirsten / Alaska

My husband is a bit obsessed with spotting a brown bear in the wild and…

August 14, 2015 / kirsten / Alaska

On a recent trip to Southeast Alaska, we took a guided, three-day kayak expedition to…

August 14, 2015 / kirsten / Foraging

The Douglas Fir (pseudotsuga menziesii) is ubiquitous west of the Cascade Range, so it’s a…