Making Garbanzo-Corn Flour Malloreddus

Poached Eggs, Nettles on Flatbread

Foraged: Black Walnuts...for Cake

Snake Lake Nature Center

Green River Natural Area, Metzker Park

Flaming Geyser State Park

Foraged Food

Foraged dandelion greens with dehydrated plums; foraged chickweed (omlette);  foraged huckleberries.

Chaga Tea with Rosehips and Huckleberries

Foraged Black Walnuts

Squash Seeds

After I roasted these squash seeds I rubbed my hands over them, to remove the silky outer skin.  The fragrance of the squash stayed on my hands.  That fragrance was just so wonderful!

Flaming Geyser State Park

Flaming Geyser SP

Lunch:  Leek-potato soup, spinach salad, pickled beets; grilled cheese-pepperoni sandwiches, PBJ sandwiches; fried mushrooms on top of pork sausage.

Grilled Cheese & Pepperoni, PBJ Sandwiches

PBJ made from homemade bread; teff flour, whole wheat flour.

Turkey Tail Mushrooms

Mushrooms, Swan Creek Drainage

Swan Creek Drainage - Hike

Lichen and Snowberry - Wapato Hills Park

Tongue Point - Strait of Juan de Fuca

Bushcraft Lunch - Strait of Juan de Fuca

Loading up Horse Manure

Numerous loads of fresh horse manure are taken to the garden and deposited in long composting trenches.  It settles for a year, mixing with other manures, straw, leaves, and grass clippings.  After a year, it is worked into the soil, a very rich amendment!  This manure is free for the taking.

Collard Succotash & WW-Teff Bread

Used the left-over whey from cheese-making to simmer the collards.  Boy was that good!  Lower photo, yogurt cultures.

Foraging: Black Walnuts - Flaming Geyser SP

Keeping Notes, On Augusta, Montana

Little Things in a Big Country, by Hannah Hinchman
http://www.amazon.com/Little-Things-Big-Country-Mountain/dp/039332866X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1452985342&sr=1-1&keywords=little+things+in+a+big+country

Natural Source of Calcium Carbonate

Choctaw ancestors ground up mussel shells, adding the crushed flakes to their pottery for a stronger pot. Their corn-based foods cooked in these pots became more nutritious from the chemical interaction with the calcium carbonate in the shell