You’re in the cave in your home. It has been two weeks. Dishes are piling up and the grime is getting bad. The Pjs you’re in are disgusting but you won’t change because you took a shower just yesterday. But you’re already so sweaty that you find yourself disgusted when you move an inch. You [...]

You know we you look up the trunk of a big leaf maple and you spy a large clump of moss with ferns growing out of it, believe it or not, they’re edible. These ferns have three names Polypodiun glycyrrhiza, or P. vulgare, but is most commonly known as Licorice Fern. The root of Licorice [...]

The Blackberries we most commonly know are invasive. They’re called the “Himalayan Black berry”.   Our native Blackberry is called the “Trailing Blackberry.” You can identify this berry by its light lavender-blue stems. Like its name implies, it trails along the ground. Native American people say this story to explain why the Trailing Blackberry is here: [...]