One person’s weeds are another person’s dinner, and burdock (Arctium) is a perfect example of this. Although it is routinely weeded out as an invasive species, in Japan it is cultivated as the ...
Join Sarah Holmes as she features one of her favorite plants, burdock. Listen in for the medicine, meals and mysteries of burdock. Some surprise plant guests may also be brought in. Fund drive. Follow ...
Scout Magazine: Pine Resin, Cottonwood Buds and an Early-Spring Rainforest Inspire Burdock & Co’s Innovative New Menu
At Vancouver’s Michelin-starred Burdock & Co, Andrea Carlson captures the fleeting beauty of an early-spring rainforest on the plate. Her new tasting menu, Gathering Resins Under a Budding Moon, turns ...
Pine Resin, Cottonwood Buds and an Early-Spring Rainforest Inspire Burdock & Co’s Innovative New Menu
Interior Alaskan forests have only six native tree species: white spruce, black spruce, quaking aspen, balsam poplar, larch (tamarack) and paper birch. Northern Canadian forests have all of those, plus jack pine, balsam fir and lodgepole pine. Since northern Canada and interior Alaska share the same grueling climate and extremes of daylength, why are the Canadian tree species absent from ...
It is common for people in interior Alaska and corresponding areas of northwestern Canada to use the name cottonwood when referring to one widespread variety of deciduous tree.
A tree's age can be easily determined by counting its growth rings, as any Boy or Girl Scout knows. Annually, the tree adds new layers of wood which thicken during the growing season and thin during the winter. These annual growth rings are easily discernible (and countable) in cross-sections of the tree's trunk. In good growing years, when sunlight and rainfall are plentiful, the growth rings ...