Jonah Raskin

Jonah Raskin is the author of Field Days: A Year of Farming, Eating, and Drinking Wine in California.

American Wilderness: Back to the Future in Vallejo

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Environmental groups gathered in downtown Vallejo over the weekend to mark the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act, to ponder the meaning of the word and to filter the concept through the lenses of California’s diverse communities.

The Forager’s Dilemma

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Just a century ago, foraging for wild foods would have been unremarkable–part of daily life for many people. That’s not true today, but foraging is making a comeback, with ever more people interested in finding food in the wild. But with a growing population and diminishing natural resources, is this sustainable? We head out with local foragers and ask about the ethics of foraging in a metropolis.