I attended an amazing symposium today, put on by some of our local tribes. Tons of people came.
The Tribal Fire Council is generously offering to teach the community at large, cultural fire practices, and how we start working as a community to make our communities fire safe, while regenerating cultural plant communities, wild foods for humans and wildlife. It is the most hope I've had for our community in a long, long, time. I've been working on my own native food forest, but often feel like I'm floundering because information is not always easily come by. Information on species utilized is available, but there's a huge gap in knowledge on how to actually care for stands, how to burn, harvest, process, cook, store, etc.
A huge door has just opened. I had no idea how extensive tarweeds like madia were utilized. The seeds are high protein and comparable to almonds in nutritional value. Madia can be made into a high quality oil.
I have a few big stands of madia, but historical stands filled vast meadows. I'm definitely going to start thinking bigger.
Photo: Madia Eleganse northern CA.
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