News & Events from the Intertwine
Join wild food expert John Kallas and get hands-on experience on how some wild plants are processed for grain, flour, and essential oils. We'll see how to shell, grind, process and leach acorns so that they transform into wonderful additions to breads, muffins, pancakes, and pudding.
Join wild food expert John Kallas and learn how to determine if and when wild foods are desirable to use, which plants to seek, what are your priorities in both recreational and unplanned survival situations. See major poisonous plants.
Join wild food expert John Kallas to investigate wild foods from marshes, fields, and woods -- including wapato or Indian potato, elderberry, wild cherry, and many other plants. This island was originally called Wapato Island by the Lewis and Clark expedition for its abundance of the plant.
Join wild food expert John Kallas to explore traditional foodways of Native North Americans. Discover foods that were used and how they were prepared and stored. Food caches, berry collecting techniques, pemmican, fruit leathers.
Join wild food expert John Kallas to identify gather and eat many of the plants seen in the book: Edible Wild Plants: Wild Foods From Dirt to Plate, which John wrote.
Join wild food expert John Kallas to learn about wild fruits and other edible plant parts found in northwest forests. Summer is when many wild fruits are ripe for picking.
Join wild food expert John Kallas to learn about trees, shrubs, and herbs of the Pacific Northwest that are found at Oxbow Regional Park, off the Sandy River Gorge.
Join wild food expert John Kallas to explore edible and poisonous plants in one of Portland's most diverse and unique landscapes. See and sample from plants you pass by everyday and others you'll find regularly.
Join wild food expert John Kallas to bushwhack through Portland's urban neighborhoods to find some of spring's best and diverse delectables. See and sample from plants you pass by everyday.
Join wild food expert John Kallas to learn about the edible plants found in Pacific Northwest forests. Spring is when with wildflowers are blooming and wild greens are ripe for picking.