Every year for Memorial Day weekend our family goes camping with several other families in a beautiful canyon in the rain shadow of the Ca...

As I wrote in a recent issue of Seattle Magazine , now is the time to seek out one of the Pacific Northwest's most striking ferns for ...

I had the pleasure of sitting down recently with Eric Parkinson, of  This Must Be the Place , a podcast that seeks to reveal "the uni...

I've partnered once again with both Bainbridge Island Parks & Rec and The Field Trip Society in Seattle to offer a variety of sp...

This winter, mushroom hunters in California are crying Hallelujah!  Unless they happen to live below Oroville Dam ... The Golden State h...

I've been cooped up this fall, finishing a new book. (More on that later.) Meanwhile I get the usual texts and emails from friends in ...

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...