{"id":3747,"date":"2014-06-19T23:14:07","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T03:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/\/?p=3747"},"modified":"2014-06-21T03:16:50","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T07:16:50","slug":"foraging-for-chai-ingredients-in-pdx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/blog\/2014\/06\/19\/foraging-for-chai-ingredients-in-pdx\/","title":{"rendered":"Foraging for chai and pesto in PDX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Was lucky to go foraging with Eric Lyon of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonblacktruffles.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Oregon Black Truffles<\/a>\u00a0on Larch Mountain for native forest\u00a0chai ingredients,\u00a0and Becky Lerner of <a href=\"firstways.com\" target=\"_blank\">First Ways<\/a> at the Sandy Delta, for nettles to make pesto\u00a0:<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3747 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon 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There&#8217;s Eric Lyon, by the clear cut. Beyond the clear cut is forest. We found Wild Ginger (<em>Asarum canadense<\/em>) and later, Vanilla leaf (A<i style=\"color: #252525;\">chlys triphylla<\/i><span style=\"color: #252525;\">\u00a0<\/span>) and Licorice fern (<span style=\"color: #545454;\"><em>Polypodium glycyrrhiza<\/em>).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Clouds and sun today at the Sandy River Delta, confluence with the Columbia (where so many rivers flow, mighty, mighty). Sara Huston of TLAAG and I learned about uses for St John&#8217;s Wort, Elderberry, Cottonwood, Mullein, Plantain, Yarrow, Oregon grape (most delicious), Teasel, and we harvested nettles.<\/p>\n<p>Back at Tiny Home I washed the nettles and bagged them for Monday; and dehydrated the Vanilla\u00a0leaf. My house smells incredible.<\/p>\n<p>+ + +<\/p>\n<p>Such mounds of dead biomass, like walking on a velvet mattress.<\/p>\n<p>Digging for wild ginger in the ground, and the licorice ferns through the mossy mats of Giant maple trees; \u00a0sticking fingers into a body of earth and pine\u00a0litter (one horizontal, one vertical \u2013 \u00a0as the ferns are epiphytes); feeling one&#8217;s way with eyes closed along\u00a0 the roots; then pulling gently away. Delicious, strange, quiet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was lucky to go foraging with Eric Lyon of Oregon Black Truffles\u00a0on Larch Mountain for native forest\u00a0chai ingredients,\u00a0and Becky Lerner of First Ways at the Sandy Delta, for nettles to make pesto\u00a0: The double-fisted King Bolete is not from today; it&#8217;s part of\u00a0Eric Lyon&#8217;s haul from last week. There&#8217;s Eric Lyon, by the clear cut. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/blog\/2014\/06\/19\/foraging-for-chai-ingredients-in-pdx\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Foraging for chai and pesto in PDX&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[59],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3747"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3783,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747\/revisions\/3783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}