wildcrafting

There is such a thing as a free lunch, if that lunch is blackberries and lemon balm tea. I've long been a fan of the concept of wildcrafting; in other words, picking wild stuff in public lands and right-of-ways, and taking it home to eat. A local guy takes interested foragers out on wild...

"It's the economy," John Kallas was telling a friend. I was browsing a street fair here in Portland when I saw the booth of Kallas, a local wildcrafting expert. It was hard not for a sustainable food geek like me to get excited, what with the jars of wild edibles ranging from black walnuts to...