Miner's Lettuce

Foraging like Gold Miners: Miner’s Lettuce

Nov 14, ’14 · by · in At home, On Adventures

There is a really cool community of hikers and hiking bloggers on Twitter. On Fridays at 9am PST they do this awesome little session called #hikerchat. Since I have started at my new job I have been unable to tweet in for #hikerchat, but since I wasn’t feeling very ambitious today I decided to take this week’s conversation topic and run with it – Foraging. I don’t do much foraging,…

Eagle-Shawmut Mine, revealed beneath Don Pedro Reservoir during drought

Eagle-Shawmut Mine: A Hidden History Except in Years of Drought

Oct 22, ’14 · by · in At home

2014 has been a heck of a drought year in California and not one farmer, environmental group, or politician is happy about it. We are trucking fish to try and keep them alive, proposing a $14.4 billion dollar bond measure, and looking at all the ways we can conserve and reuse our limited supply. It is a mess. But while visiting Groveland’s best coffee shop, the Mountain Sage (which really knows how…