Red alder branches and wood are harvested for traditional pit cooking and smoking fish, while its bark is used medicinally to treat skin ailments, cleanse the blood, and make therapeutic teas.

Cattails are used for food or making mats or twine.

This beautiful lily adds peppery flavours to pit cooks.

Beyond its bright red berries, the thimbleberry offers edible young shoots, herbal tea leaves, and traditional medicinal uses.

Eelgrass beds are an important habitat and can be enjoyed for food and teas.

Native thistles that are edible.

Osoberry, also known as indian plum, chokecherry, or june plum.

Rare plant for eating and insect repellent.

Leaves and roots are used to make teas to treat several conditions.

Early spring blossoms make a great dish and medicine.

Popular spring berry for wildlife and humans.

An edible berry typically eaten with ooligian grease.

An introduced species with medicinal uses.

An unassuming year-round jelly fungus could save your life in a pinch.

Lungwort is a canopy-dwelling lichen that has many medicinal benefits related to the lungs and respiratory system.

The elusive Blue Chanterelle, with its brilliant colour, is not a mushroom you will often come by.

Cauliflower Mushroom is a choice edible mushroom that grows in the fall. It typically grows solus in the forest and can become quite large!

Turkish Towel is a rough intertidal seaweed that is wonderful to use on the skin. It can also be used as an alternative to gelatin.

Yellow Foot, or Winter Chantrelle, is a delicious late fall and winter mushroom, sister to the usual Chanterelle you think of.

Hedgehog mushrooms are a delicious late fall and winter mushroom to enjoy.