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Seasoned foragers all have a list. It's the things we’re quietly obsessed with finding, but haven't managed to track down yet. Black walnuts have been on the top of my list for a while. We research it. We beg other foragers to spill their secret spots. We slam on the brakes if we think we’ve spotted it from the car. For many foragers, their bucket list items are so notoriously scarce they go to extreme measures! One of my foraging friends even went so far as to dig through 1

Do trees like to be touched? I can't tell if they're into it, but I’m definitely the weirdo in the forest who can’t keep their hands to themselves. I lay my hands on their trunks, as if trying to absorb their stories and energy. If trees could talk, would they call me a groper? Probably. But can you blame me? There’s just something so magnetic as you press your hands into the texture of their bark. Bunya Bunya (also known as the Bunya Pine, Araucaria bidwillii ) has rough te