The Kootenay Foraging Encyclopedia
Welcome to our living library of Kootenay flora.
This guide is dedicated to the ethical harvesting, identification, and medicinal uses of the plants that call our mountains home.
🌿 1. The Ethical Forager: Start Here
Before you harvest, learn the rules of the forest.
- The Heart of the Harvest: An Introduction to Ethical Wildcrafting
- Deadly Doppelgängers: Common Toxic Plants That Look Like Edibles
- At-Risk & Restored Plants in BC: What to Protect
- Please Don’t Buy the Reindeer Moss: Ecology & Ethics
- Why We Leave the Evergreens: Hidden Costs of Winter Tea
🌸 2. Medicinal Flowers & Herbs
- Arnica: The Therapeutic Benefits
- Fireweed: The Pink Torch
- Mullein: Many Amazing Benefits
- Stinging Nettle: Wild Superfood
- Plantain: Unlocking Wellness Secrets
- Chicory: The Sky-Blue Survivor
- Pineapple Weed: Humble Treasure Underfoot
- Borage: From Field to Table
- Usnea: Nature’s Penicillin
- Calendula: A Healer’s Ally
- Honeysuckle: Native Beauty
- Burdock: From Root to Leaf
🍄 3. Forest Fungi
- Chaga: The Most Powerful Mushroom
- Chaga Science: Soothing the Immune System
- Chanterelles: Golden Harvest
- Witch’s Butter: Winter Field Guide
🍒 4. Berries & Fruits
- Rosehips: Rubies in the Forest
- Rosehips Science: Why They Shine in Cold
- Elderberry: Transforming Health
- Elderflower: Ethics of Harvesting
- Oregon Grape: Beyond the Bitter Berry
- Chokecherry: The Dark Jewel
- Mountain Ash: Incredible & Edible
- Thimbleberry: Therapeutic Benefits
- Bearberry: Ethics & Ecology
