Salal, the Cascadian Food Institute, LLC

Estuaries are the world's most productive ecosystems. High in the salt marsh the edible roots of Silverweed, Clover, Riceroot, and Lupine abound.

Many of our mountain slopes are thickly blanketed with delicious fruit in the late summer.

Throughout the summer, coastal forest openings produce a delicious diversity of fruit.

As soon as the mountain snows melt, Glacier Lilies spring up and bloom. All parts are edible, especially the sweet corms.

Laying Nori out to dry. Virtually every ecosystem from the salty oceans to the snowy mountains produces an abundance of indigenous foods.

Growing from freshwater sloughs and marshes, Wapato is one of our choicest root vegetables

For a century or more wild rice has graced many lakes and sloughs throughout the Pacific Northwest

Along coastal margins where sunlight penetrates the dark forests, Salal flourishes

Young trees and mushrooms flourish after fires in our dry forests

Several types of tasty shellfish thrive where the sound meets the shore.

Beneath both heaven and sea swim salmon, halibut, smelt, and lingod.

Native Elk once roamed the San Juan Islands and much of our region.

For countless generations, Native Americans have sustainably managed their river based fisheries. Can we?

An untapped potential, Bigleaf Maple trees produce sap that can be reduced to a sweet syrup just like eastern Sugar Maples'.

Eastern valley slopes to dry for agriculture produce dozens edible root varieties.