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The Living Wild book is an invitation to celebrate California’s heritage and culture weaves through LIVING WILD, an essential guide to the uses of native plants. This expanded edition in its fourth printing offers a deep awareness of the landscape with advice on cultivating more than 100 native plant species and enjoying this natural abundance for sustainable wild food cuisine and herbal medicine remedies. LIVING WILD is the only sourcebook that provides a simple path to fundamentally shift the way we eat, garden and heal. Copies of the book may be ordered through the Living Wild Project.

Living Wild Book

Just strolling through the woods or your backyard becomes a culinary and artistic adventure, providing food, art and medicine for family and friends.
-Elizabeth Martin, The Sierra Fund

The need to interact with native, wild plants to heal, feed, shelter, and clothe us is ancient. LIVING WILD helps us to reclaim our plant gathering heritage and in the process, to go a long ways towards mending the false gulf between humans and the natural world.
-M. Kat Anderson, Ph.D., UC Davis, Tending the Wild

Learning how to responsibly use wild plants deepens my understanding of how I depend on nature, encouraging me to become a better steward to the systems that give me breath.
-John Muir Laws, The laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada

This beautiful book makes us deeply thankful for the diverse bounty that we share every time we step into wild California.
-Dan Gluesenkamp, Ph.D.,  Executive Director, California Institute for Biodiversity


Curriculum Guide

The Nature of this Place is a K-8 curriculum that meets California Science Standards and offers ways for schools to connect kids to a direct experience of local ecology. Hundreds of school kids have enjoyed experiential learning with this curriculum since it was published!

Developed by the Yuba Watershed Institute (YWI), written by Sierra Streams Institute and published by Flicker Press, lessons include:

  • Plant Ecology of the Sierra Nevada
  • Salmon Life History
  • Species Interactions
  • Ecosystem Health
  • Conservation in the Sierra Foothills

Download the free electronic version of the curriculum guide here.