Cost Control
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Scanner Code of Practice (aka not getting ripped off at the till)
If you’ve bought groceries lately, you don’t need a report to tell you something is off. Prices are up, portions are down, and everything seems to taste worse. 😬 Most days, we feel like we’re splurging just by purchasing out basic staples, even when we buy them on discount. And in this high-inflation context, the
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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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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