I am super excited to start on a new project! Over the next year I am going to be researching what the Native Americans who lived in Oregon traditionally ate and next year for the Thanksgiving feast I will serve as close to a traditional Native American feast as I can. I will be working with my friend, Ahavah, who is a teacher at U of O. I know a little about wild edibles of Oregon and I can imagine how the Native peoples prepared them, but it will be super exciting to learn the details and techniques!
Some of the wild edibles of Oregon that I can think of would be:
Oyster Mushrooms
Chantrelles
Camas tuber
wild iris tuber
Acorns
hazelnuts
Elder berries
Salmon Berries
Blackberries
Wild strawberries
Sorrel
Miner's lettuce
wild chicory
chckweed
dandelion leaves and roots
crab apples (?)
cattails
fiddlehead ferns
deer
quail
elk
salmon
eel
trout
steelhead
saltwater fish
shellfish
mussels/oysters/abalone/geoduck
duck
goose
squirell-not really interested in that one! lol :))
bear
It really should be an interesting year!
