After posting about my spring de-tox , it occurred to me that Stinging Nettle Tea really deserves its own post. This is a tonic everyone sho...

Okay, so fire-roasted may be a stretch. But while tomatoes, red peppers, and garlic are merely roasted in the oven, the effect is almost th...

Dear readers, this forager is a hurtin' pup. Maybe part of the problem is he isn't exactly a pup anymore—but still acts like one. La...

The interweb has been buzzing recently with news of a tremendous wild steelhead caught on Washington State's Hoh River. Normally such ...

I've evangelized stinging nettles plenty in this space before. If you're still a skeptic, here's an an oh-so-foolproof way to...

Lately I've been considering the oyster. We're lucky in Washington: this is the only state between Mexico and Canada on the West Coa...

What's in a name? In our anxiety-prone food culture we tend to get uptight about the smallest lexical tics and demarkations. For instanc...

FOTL headquarters has just been informed that it has been named one of the 50 best blogs for gun enthusiasts . This just goes to show that g...

As I posted yesterday , it's stinging nettle time in the Northwest lowlands. In the next few weeks I'll harvest enough to last me th...

The last day of February found me skulking around a moist woodland near sea-level, zeroing in on signs of spring. One of my favorite harbing...