Thursday, June 15, 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, Plant ID, and some Wilderness Shelter
FORAGING USEFUL WILD PLANTS -- EDIBLE, MEDICINAL, UTILITARIAN -- November 9, 10 a.m. We will explore a watershed area, seeing native and introduced plants. You will learn about edible plants, medicinal plants, various useful plants. You will learn some of the Plant Families, based on the pattern method developed...
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...