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Camas Prairies
Our local camas prairies were naturally formed about 14,000 years ago after glaciers retreated. Foods, including edible roots and berries, thrived in this open landscape. Eventually, this habitat would have disappeared as trees moved in and created forest. Plants that...
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Spring Wild Greens
Ah, to taste the first vibrant flavors of spring. My body sings as I devour tender violet leaves, sweet salmon berry flowers, the delicate new leaves of miners lettuce and chickweed. Many of my plant teachers have taught me that these first spring foods wake our bodies up...
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About Elise
Elise Krohn is passionate about her relationship with plants. As an herbalist and native foods specialist she empowers others in gathering and using wild foods and medicines. Her 17 years of experience includes medicine making, clinical practice, developing tribal community gardens, creating curricula and teaching.
Harvesting Tips
When I go outside to gather my own food and medicine I am in my element. I am taking in the gifts of my place. It is also a time to give back by tending the plants that sustain me and many other species. Gathering is a basic human act, one we have engaged in for thousands of years, and one that is largely forgotten in our modern world.
Resources
There are many incredible resources out there. This is my own list of favorites that have helped me to dive deeper. I do not believe that you need to know a lot of plants or own piles of books to be a great forager and medicine maker. In-depth knowledge comes from hands-on experience – watching and using plants from season to season and year to year.
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Rose is an old soul. She has been on earth more than 35-million years and she has...
Once you know chickweed you will see that it is omnipresent. Just yesterday we found it...
Each spring I look forward to seeing the blooms of big leaf maple trees illuminated in...
I could not contain my excitement this year as I spotted the first nettles...
I know, you can’t find tropical ginger wild in the Pacific Northwest, but I...
Winter is here. The business of the holidays is behind us. I breathe a sigh of...
Rose hips glow like rubies in the fading colors of autumn. They are red to orange...
As I stand in the forest under a cathedral of Douglas fir and gentle arches of Big Leaf...
Elder is called “the medicine chest of the country people” – a pharmacy in and of...
Ever-green, basic food, plant of perseverance. Salal, a backdrop in Northwest woodlands,...
Fireweed is a pioneer. It’s tiny seeds ride the wind like parachutes and begin new...
At last it has arrived – the moment we wait and wait for. Summer – warm and...