Thursday, August 6, Noon FORAGING WALK Join us as we explore the landscape with a naturalist’s eyes. We’ll learn about plants used by generations of indigenous peoples. We'll see the many plants used for generations of people for wild foods, medicines, and utility. We'll see California native plants, and we'll...
FORAGING WALKABOUT: WILD FOOD & USEFUL PLANTS, with Focus on FIRE and WEAVING plants
FORAGING USEFUL WILD PLANTS -- for FOOD, FIRE, WEAVING, MEDICINAL, and UTILITARIAN -- May 30, 10 a.m. We will explore a watershed area, seeing native and introduced plants. Our focus today will be to learn about those plants that are used for food, making fire, and weaving. You will learn...
FORAGING FOR GINKGO (Ginkgo biloba)
Botanists believed that the Ginkgo biloba tree was extinct, but then it was found in a Chinese Buddhist monastery in the 1700s, where specimens were being cultivated. Once it was rediscovered, ginkgo has been cultivated and spread all over the world as an ornamental and street tree. It is popular...