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Plant Crafts

Working with Wild Plants

Crowberry

Gayla Pedersen picking ripe fall crowberries, 2021.

Kodiak’s wild plants are abundant, easy to harvest, and versatile. Take a walk with Alutiiq herbalist Gayla Pedersen to learn about local plants, then watch as Gayla demonstrates how to prepare an assortment of plant foods and a salve.

Take a Plant Walk

Demonstrations

Cooking with Sheep Sorrel

Sorrel Recipe

Cottonwood Bud Salve

Salve Recipe

Crowberry Pie

Pie Recipe

Fireweed Chai

Chai Recipe

Rose Petal Jam

Jam Recipe

Pushki Smoked Halibut

Smoked Halibut Recipe

Pickled Kelp

Pickle Recipe

Sauted Goose Tongue

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Spruce Tip Syrup

Syrup Recipe

A NOTE OF CAUTION The knowledge shared here has been passed down through our community. However, this knowledge has not been scientifically tested or verified. Any experimentation with wild plants is done at your own risk.

Produced with support from the US Fish & Wildlife Service, Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge.