Security and Resilience
Practical skills that reduce dependence or exposure, maximize safety, and mitigate risk.
Check out our posts on wild foraging, budget meals, cyber skills & best practices, emergency preparedness, avoiding fraud & scams, or just browse our list of security and resilience related posts below.
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Product Recalls, Safety Warnings, and Risk Notifications
As a consumer, we have rights… including the right to safety and to information that can support that safety. Thus governments, manufacturers, and independent organizations publish safety information every day, as is their responsibility, but that information is spread across many systems and easy to miss. This page consolidates the most reliable places to check,
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Wild food identification resources
Okay, first of all… make sure you’ve read our Terms of Use and Safe Harvesting Tips… Now you can keep reading 🔎 The Pacific Northwest is amazing. In the qathet Region and beyond, the forests, fields, coastline, intertidal zones, and even the disturbed areas offer an exceptional diversity of edible organisms, including plants, fungi, and
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Safe Harvesting Tips
Safe Harvesting Practices Harvesting wild resources, whether plants, fungi, or other natural materials, is fundamentally about judgment. The risks are rarely dramatic or obvious; they are cumulative, contextual, and often invisible. Safe harvesting is less about memorizing rules and more about developing good habits. This applies equally to foraging food, collecting medicinal plants, or gathering
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Why Frozen Spinach Deserves a Permanent Spot in Your Freezer
Frozen spinach rarely gets enthusiasm. And I get it… It is not trendy, photogenic, or exciting. And yet, from a practical standpoint, it may be one of the highest-value foods you can keep on hand. It is inexpensive, long-lasting, nutrient-dense, and endlessly adaptable—exactly the kind of ingredient that quietly improves your options day after day.
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Sprucing up your ramen
Elevating Instant Ramen with What You Already Have Instant ramen is cheap, shelf-stable, and fast to make. But on its own, it’s fairly thin in nutritionally. But with a small amount of intention, ramen can become a practical base for a solid meal. The goal here is not gourmet cooking from scratch, but taking an
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Eat the Weeds: Chickweed (Stellaria media)
I absolutely love that it’s early January and I’m still harvesting fresh greens from the garden. Mind you, these are not greens that I’ve planted, but they sure are greens that I did not weed out! Here’s a picture I took today of Chickweed (Stellaria media) growing out of rich soil I have spent many