Picnic with wild foods

Salad with wild foods added

Nasturtium Wrap

Nasturtium Wrap

Nasturtium Wrap

Picnic! What a spread! Raw flat breads, fruits, spirulina chips, salad, tahini-miso salad dressing, nasturtium leaves, avocado, cashew spread, fennel, mustard, nasturtium flowers.

Today I went to my favorite trail in Santa Barbara's front country. I like to go where there is a year round spring nearby with a nice vantage point overlooking the ocean. I brought food up for a picnic. Along the way to my destination I gathered a little bit of wild foods to contribute to my meal. I found wild Fennel leaves and flowers, Mustard flowers and Nasturtium leaves and flowers. These are several plants illuminated by Brigitte Mars whom gave a wild foods hike here last week. I used the flowers as garnish to the salad and mixed the feathery Fennel leaves into the salad. I then made use of the Nasturtium leaves to make veggie wraps with the salad.

It was so good and satisfying to discover the bounty of edibles growing all around my walk. How local is that! With thanks to Brigitte for alerting me to the possibilities of this wonderfully bountiful Mother-Earth! What a special Mothers Day all too rarely we reflect that that includes the planet as well. I will never forget that the earth is always ready to nourish if we but open our eyes.