The Sweet Life Mountainaire, Arizona · By Peter Friederici When he was a teenager growing up on an Iowa farm, Dennis Arp once went squirrelhunting with friends and came across some beehives. The boys decided they’d try to extract the honey. Dennis borrowed a veil from his dad, who’d kept bees in the past. Lacking […]
Melissa Porter’s Wildcrafted Herbs
Imparting Hope for the Future Chama, New Mexico · By Rosemary Logan and Peter Friederici As you come over the hills into Chama, the land takes on a fresh, spring green color. It’s not just the irrigated pastures of alfalfa along the river, but also the oaks and aspens and grasses that cover the steep […]
The Community Wild Foraging Project
Modern-Day Hunter-Gatherers Flagstaff, Arizona · By Gary Paul Nabhan and Rose Houk Patty West and Teresa DeKoker may be the only university employees in the United States to boast job descriptions as “hunter-gatherers.” As coordinators of the country’s first community wild foraging project, they gather wild foods from farms, ranches, and public lands on the […]
Turtle Lake Refuge
Alchemy in the Kitchen, Fire on the Land Durango, Colorado · By Rachel Turiel Hinds In Durango, Colorado, a small revolution is taking place. It simmers quietly in the backyards of people who harvest dandelions, amaranth, and other wild weeds for dinner salads. It gathers steam in a historic district alley where up to one […]
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