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Celebrating Wild Food, Wild Medicine, and Wild Idea’s in the Salish Sea Bioregion

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Dungeness Crab

Important food species for the coast salish.

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Lady Fern

Popular spring fiddlehead.

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Deer Fern

Spring fiddlehead and medicine to treat skin sores.

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Bracken Fern

Rhizome and fiddleheads are often consumed.

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Licorice Fern

A fall fiddlehead found growing on Large Leaf Maples.

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Sword Fern

A spring and fall fiddlehead along with many other uses.

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Douglas-Fir

An ancient tree that offer many uses.

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Pacific Dogwood

Also known as Western Flowering Dogwood, is a medicine to treat stomach problems and also makes great wooden tools.

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Garry Oak

Beautiful tree in the endangered Garry Oak Ecosystem which acorns and bark were harvested.

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Sea Rocket

Use parts of this dune plant to add a mustard flavour to your dishes.

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Springbank Clover

Roots, leaves, and flowers are edible in this native clover.

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Spring Gold

The wild carrot of the Salish Sea.

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Flowering Red Currant

Berries with a mild flavour, but popular for hummingbirds.

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Blackcap Raspberry

Delicious berry found along the Coast Salish Sea.

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Himalayan Blackberry

A common edible black plump berry found throughout the Salish Sea.

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Black Gooseberry

Dark purple to black berries are best eaten right off the shrub when ripe.

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Oceanspray

Remedy for diarrhea and several wooden uses.

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Pearly Everlasing

A tobacco replacement that can also relieve respiratory illnesses.

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Sea Asparagus

Ocean herb that resembles closely to asparagus.

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Sheep Sorrel

An introduced species, with a sour lemony flavour.