San Juan Family

attails are a food that you can eat almost all year-round. Every cattail plant is a hermaphrodite, with male parts on top and female parts beneath. After the male parts have done their job, they fall off.
There are two types of edible cattails, the common cattails, which are the most familiar, growing to [...]

he San Juan islands are a great place to find Salal Berries. When they’re flowering, they’re like little teeny white bells hanging from the stalks of the plant. They’re a low growing shrub that can perch at the edge of a cliff, so be careful.
Thew berries are ripe in late summer, from [...]

re you looking for Edible Wild Plants in the San Juan Islands?
A few years ago, when we lived in Seattle, I became completely enthralled with edible wild plants. I borrowed a book from the library that was about ten inches thick. “Native American Ethnobotany” discussed not only the edible wild plants, but also [...]