by Katrina McClure, Raven Naramore, and Mishea Obiji

“It requires leaving the path” – This coloring cookbook/plant identification guide project by Raven Naramore, Mishea Obiji, Katrina McClure, and Lelani Sanchez will teach people that wild food is under their footsteps in places they already recreate. Foraging offers another way to interact with the landscape that is seasonal and intimate, slowing down the pace to enjoy the more subtle aspects of nature’s gifts. When looking for foraged foods, one must at times, stop and sit among the milkweed plants and look for monarch eggs before harvesting. When looking for morels there are lots of natural indicators that the time is right, like the opening of May apples, and the paw paw blossoms on the trees. It requires leaving the path.