New class announced for October 27! The Field Trip Society is a new Seattle-based business offering a wide range of hands-on experienc...

Last week Martha and I spent a couple days mountain biking near Winthrop, Washington, not far from North Cascades National Park. On our w...

PULL ON YOUR rubber boots and grab a bucket! There's still time to learn how to forage and cook Puget Sound shellfish. A new class has...

My usual oyster mushroom spots aren't producing so well this year. Maybe it's the combination of record winter rain followed by re...

I'm happy to report that my article "Into the Woods" for EatingWell magazine has been nominated for a 2016 James Beard Jo...

Once again I'm partnering with The Field Trip Society to offer an introductory wild food and foraging class. Check back for additiona...

I first met travel and food writer Joe Ray a few years ago when the two of us read together at Seattle Lit Crawl . At the time, the New Ha...

The saffron milk cap is a wild mushroom that most pot hunters leave to the Russians . That's too bad because it's tasty and abunda...

A couple weekends ago, while attending the Sunshine Coast Mushroom Festival in British Columbia, I got a bite of a Wild Mushroom Strude...

It's another dry fall in the Cascades. The new normal. Even so, mushrooms are up if you know where to look. I visited one of my favori...