HPC’s Kalicia Bean holds a Ganoderma applanatum mushroom, known as the ‘Artist’s Conk’ due to the fact that you can make drawings on the underside. The Native Plant Sale Ethnobotanical Guide has tidbits like this and more around all the culinary, medicinal, artistic, and crafty ways you can enjoy native plants. Learn about that, Farm Foundations and Upcoming Classes by clicking below.

Every seed has a story – the land and climate that has shaped them, the hands that carried them from one place to the next, and the people’s lives they touched along the way. For Harvest Pierce County’s 7th annual Seed Swap, we are celebrating these stories and inviting folks from Pierce County share some of theirs.