Yellow Dock
Essays
“Three Edible Hot Weather Plants” for Discovery Channel’s “The Colony” website July 15, 2010
“Urban Survival Strategies from a Forager” for Discovery Channel’s “The Colony” website July 15, 2010
“Outdoor Plate: An Urban Forager’s Guide to Edible Weeds” for New Connexion: Pacific Northwest’s Journal of Conscious Living May/June 2010
“Stalking the Urban Nettle” for Orion Magazine March/April 2010
“Urban Foraging in Portland” for RealitySandwich.com February 26, 2010
“Redefining the Self In An Age of Collapse” for Evolver October 12, 2009
“How Foraging Can Set You Free” for EarthFirst! Journal June 2009
“How Foraging Can Aid Sustainability” for Culture Change May 23, 2009
Green Reporting
“Do-it-yourself herbal” for The Oregonian Nov. 2010
Natural remedies come in handy, an herbalist says
“Take It Outside” for The Ithaca Times Jan. 2008
How does the experience of nature-immersion affect urban children?
“The Great Beyond” for The Ithaca Times Jan. 2008
A guide to keeping warm in the winter woods
“Sour Milk: Big Box Dairy Farms Bring Manure & Misery to Some Central NY Communities” for The Syracuse New Times June 2008
A link between dairy pollution and illness?
“Primitive Skills Offers Sustainable Model” for Culture Change Aug. 2009
What can indigenous ways can teach us about green living?
Special Projects
Wild Food Challenge: My very first attempt survive a week on a wild diet in Portland, OR, lasted five days at the end of May 2009. I wrote about the project for a peak-oil web site called CultureChange.org. You can see my daily record of the adventure, and what I learned about sustainability and survival, below.
Day One – Oh Pizza, You Temptress!
Day Two – Pineapple weed tea
Day Three – Seasons: Why nature is not like the grocery store
Day Four – Becky eats ant eggs, gets bummed
Day Five – Stopping early: Some reflections
Day Six – Sustainability by the numbers
Day Seven – Shifting patterns
Wild Food Week 2.0 went swimmingly well! Thanks to lessons I learned from my first attempt, I lasted all seven days over Thanksgiving week 2009, once again blogging daily for CultureChange.org. Here’s the skinny:
Preparing – I Get By With A Little Help From My Tribe
Day One – Medicinal Food and Supernatural Berries
Day Two – Acorn Pancakes and Cracking the Black Walnut
Day Three – Licorice Fern and Earthly Kindness
Day Four – On Sumac tea and Conserving Calories
Day Five – Oyster Mushrooms and the Wapato Shimmy
Day Six – The Challenge of Palatability
Day Seven – Wild Thanksgiving
