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"In wildness is the preservation of the world." -Henry David Thoreau

The Living Wild Project offers a way to deepen our relationship with the land we inhabit, support local biodiversity, and fundamentally shift the way we eat, garden, and heal.

You are invited to explore, edit, or add to the content of this site, taste a new recipe, grow a native plant in your garden, or learn to make your own medicine.

• List of Sierra Nevada Plants included in this database.

• Sierra Plants for Landscape

• Sierra Plants for Food

• Sierra Plants for Medicine

On October 24, 2009, five top Nevada County restaurants and chefs demonstrated how eating local food could mean eating what is already growing in your own backyard.

The sixty attendees enjoyed wild beer made from yarrow, wines made from elderberry and blackberry and a gourmet experience with —

• Seasonal Green Salad w/pine nuts topped with a Manzanita Berry Vinaigrette by Ike’s
• Oak nut Gingerbread Bites with Locally Made Goat Cheese and Manzanita-Caramelized Apples made by In the Kitchen
• Zucchini, Pecan, Oak Nut Cake drizzled with a Lemon Glaze
• made by Citronee Bistro and
• Chocolate Brittle Torte with hazelnuts and oak nuts, by Flour Garden.

The evening featured the work of ten local artists exclusively working with native materials, including Bob Erickson, who has work in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian.

All proceeds benefited Yuba Watershed Institute and the Tsi-Akim Maidu Tribe, organizations that provide essential education on our community’s natural environment and heritage.