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October 8, 2009
Wildcrafting Yerba Buena
People often wonder what wildcrafting is like. Here is a picture I took last week, sitting underneath a bush harvesting my favorite wild mint, Yerba Buena, in the local coastal mountains. I spent the whole day crawling around beneath the the dense canopy of coyote bush and coastal scrub plants, searching for secret patches of this lovely, lemony smelling wild herb - my knees were sore, the flies were buzzing and my hands were getting cut to shreds by the bramble, but I was immersed in the bright, summery, minty world of Yerba Buena all day long. The best thing about this kind of attentive, small scale wildcrafting is getting to know plants in a real and intimate way. I spent the whole day touching and smelling this wild herb went to sleep with dreams of the minty, salty ocean air, tiny shimmering green leaves and sunlight streaming through the branches above my head.
Yerba Buena, so tiny and delicate
A wildcrafters view of the world: crawling underneath the Coyote Bush, A Berkeley Bowl grocery bag full of Yerba Buena
Posted by michael in Wildcrafting
