(more photos at each link) harvest from a walk around a nearby lake with friend & pup:
bringing friends out on an herb walk to meet the locals, introducing them to devil’s club:
making horsetail salve with the tall, 'leaf’less kind that grows in standing water:
making my first batch of devil’s club salve:
a big foraging day: got an armful of fireweed, also thimbleberry leaves & labrador tea leaves.
my first salmonberries of the season:
a quick morning foraging walk down the road:
another good day for fireweed (with flowers this time!):
labrador tea from that earlier foraging trip finally dry:
lovely views & plants from the day i got that armful of flowering fireweed:
from a foraging walk around a ‘pond’/bog type area, with salal flowering & the first ripe huckleberries:
and last but not least, a nice big harvest of horsetail, for daily infusions to support well-lubricated joints: