“Sustainability and a sense of place weave through this essential guidebook on native plants of the Sierra Nevada,” states the back of “Living Wild,” a new book by Nevada County residents Alicia Funk and Karin Kaufman. “This eco-friendly reference, beautifully illustrated with color photographs, offers gardening advice for over 90 plant species, 70 gourmet food recipes using local leaves, nuts and berries and plant medicine remedies for common health conditions.”

As if owning this beautiful, valuable tome on local plants, etc. wasn’t enough, Alica Funk and other contributing authors will be at BriarPatch on April 19 and 20 from noon to 6:00 p.m. signing books and talking about native plants. After perusing “Living Wild,” head over to a demonstration of what can be done with native plants or go into the great outdoors for one of the native plant garden tours from 5:30 to 6:00 p.m.

Related posts:

1. Catching up on seasonal stories-#1 Springtime in the foothills/Wild Food.
2. Living Lands

Robert Trent and I are diving on in. We share office space at Sierra Commons. He lives in town, I live on the Ridge. We’re both committing to eating ALAP – As Local As Possible – and we’re adding an element: we’re gonna see who needs to travel the least to get our already low-traveled food stuffs.

So on Day One Mike Ate: Eggs from my next door neighbor’s farm. Picked roadside blackberries down the street (I made a crumble with my nephew – most of the grains used were local, butter as well.), meat from Chaffin Farms via the NC Farmers Market, and veggies – corn, beans, arugula – from our Mountain Bounty CSA box which we get right up on Tyler Foote.

And my LOCAvore article ran in the LOCAL paper.

Robert – weren’t you on a plane? Any local peanuts in the pretzel snack mix?

Reality check from Mike: Coffee. I won’t – and haven’t given up coffee. I’ll probably down some peanut butter this month, too. More reality checks as the month progresses…

Robert?

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