Cowichan Soul Creations

17/06/2025

Hey ya! ✨🌱🍄🧬 Another chance to learn about all the wild edible food in your area. Meet me at the Costal Kitchen @ 12pm tomorrow and be shown all the delicious berries and plants around us.

Can’t wait to see you there!!
Divinity
(Ps, if your tagged, do you mind sharing the post to help boost the algorithm💕)

16/06/2025

🧡Do you work so hard at your job, you can’t afford the time or energy to forage natures food for yourself? Have no fear, I am here to help! 🧡Salmon Berries or otherwise know as Rubus spectabilis a delicious berry related to the raspberry. Sweet juicy and 3X MORE vitamin C than an orange! They are medicinal berries, a staple food for Coast Salish and Indigenous peoples. 🧡15$ a container🧡Hand picked from the woods of Port Renfrew, BC🧡I am also open to trade for beef, elk, pork, fish, or various items for trade & barter. I also can be of hire to forage any other types of berries, plants, fungi or lichen for your medicinal needs.

15/06/2025

Who can’t wait for or Pine Szn?! 😮💥

Also, why am I such a bad poster.. guys.. I swear I have thousands of pictures of mushrooms and yet I can’t seem to get them out of my camera roll? 🫨 (I must stay motivated)

Anyways, these snap shots are from Nov. 4th, 2023 and the background is blurred for my protection.

Asian and oriental people will come to places like Vancouver Island and pay $$$$ extortionate amounts of money, just to find a A1 button of these beauties.

So, would you ever be interested a Matsutake Pine Mushroom Tour? Let me know down below 👇

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29/04/2025

20 years of Foraging experience given away for $25 on Sunday May the 4th in Beautiful Port Renfrew BC! We will be meeting at the community center at around 11am for a duration of a few hours, walking around town identifying and eating native and introduced species of plants, shrubs, fungi and flowers! If this interests you, just show up or, message me to be apart of the WhatsApp Group Chat! Share, comment and like this to help boost the algorithm and engage with more people who might also be interested!

22/02/2025

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For anyone following this one. Here's the data. G. tsugae grows on Vancouver Island. At this point I wonder if people are lying to me that I am wrong, just to get my reaction....

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21/02/2025

Always good to beware of

Have you seen either of these beautiful wildflowers popping up around you?

These two common yard herbs pop up *all over the place* in early spring.

I look forward to foraging (one of) them every year!

In my opinion, they are one of the best places to start learning plant identification, because while at first glance they can look extremely similar, with the right distinguishing details, you’ll be able to tell them apart in no time!

In these photos, I’ve highlighted the most important details for distinguishing them! (Which is important because while I LOVE deadnettle tea, I think henbit tea is mediocre 😅)

Feel free to share it with a friend!

P.S. As many of you discovered, yes the secret flour I was showing was indeed kudzu (Pueraria montata). I *just* dropped my half-hour treatise video on how to forage for it on my YT channel if you’re interested in checking it out!

P.P.S Less than a month to go until the **Southeast Forager’s Conference** in Alabama! If you’re in the area, I’d love to see you there. We’re almost certainly going to be finding lots of these two herbs. It would be fun to gather a bunch and make tea together! 😄 (Comment " " or DM me "conference" and I'll send you all the details)

16/02/2025

Okay, let’s see how this post goes:

I am writing a section in my blog about Ganoderma (Reishi or Ling chih)
I have veiwed case studies online of people sharing stories of how they healed themselves or someone else, or an animal of cancer. There was 1 comment in particular about a women who healed her husbands cancer. Another about someone’s dog. Forgive me universe I should have written them down when I came across them! I can’t remember what platform is was but I’m pretty sure it was Facebook.
So here I ask the internet, do you have any stories of healing Cancer with Reishi, or lowering levels? Please feel free to private message me or comment down below. Let’s get the discussion going! 🍄‍🟫❤️

10/02/2025

We've all heard of the saying 'farm to table'. Well, I just made up a new term called Forest to Table! 🌲🥳 Who needs a farm anyways?

06/02/2025

Go you!!! 🥰💐🌲

So many birds in my yard this winter. None seen at any of the neighbors.