CAN ANYONE HELP ME IDENTIFY THIS STONE? Weighs 2 lbs., 3 oz. and is 5.75″ long. Botryoidal in formation. Overall deep blue-green in color. Central, circularly-radiating ochre-colored cores within each sphere. Found on Haida Gwaii, (Queen Charlotte Islands), off the coast of British Columbia. Doesn’t seem to be scratched by steel. (Click on each image for [...]

Today, under sunny, blue skies, 34 foragers showed up at Seahurst Beach for the Urban Foraging Walk organized by Sustainable Burien. We browsed for edibles between the shore and the woods with master forager, Melany Vorass and hadn’t gone even two feet before the first few edible “weeds” presented themselves for our sampling: horsetail, salmonberry, [...]