Foraging in 2026 is off to a roaring start! Our first foraging run of the season was a 2 weeks ago Monday, followed by last week when we held two introductory foraging workshops. The first was up in Vernon on a public-use area of land where attendees were introduced to pine bark, fir needles, and got to see nettle, fieldmint and other herbs in their seedling stages. The second introductory foraging workshop took place on Saturday, where only workshop alumni attended, so rather than go through the entire foundational talk again, we simply hit the trail. One of them had…
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So April 6th was our first spring foraging run. The original goal was to see how the yarrow is growing at one of our zones after observing it doing very well at the horse barn. We did come back with a bit of yarrow, but not without observing just how many fir sprigs and branches had blown off the Douglas fir trees in the same area. We ended up gathering a full cloth grocery bag of fallen, still-green, fir sprigs! Along the way, we observed that the animals hadn’t bothered to eat the fruit of the kinnickinick plants, and now…