I have worked here since 2011 telling stories of the Earth as preparation for a history of the Intermontane Grasslands of Central Cascadia and the rainswept coast that keeps them windy and dry. Now I am presenting this history, step by step, as I have learned it, often from the land itself. The history of this region includes the Canadian colonial space “The Okanagan Valley”, which lies over the land I live in above Canim Bay. The story stretches deep into the American West, into the US Civil War, the War of 1812, and the Louisiana Purchase, as well into the history of the Columbia District of the Hudson’s Bay Company. In all, the story spans the Chilcotin and Columbia volcanic plateaus and the basins that surround them. In this vast watershed lie homelands as old as 13,200 years (Sequim) and 16,200 years (Salmon River.) That’s how far we are walking together here, who are all the land speaking.
Okanagan Okanogan 
I’m not familiar with this plant. Does it taste like spinach?
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The best way to cook is boiling it and eat with soy sauce and boiling egg and steam rice . You will love it . This lamb’s quater is also called Pigweed . Why ? Because the wild pig in the forest love to eat it .
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Thanks for the recipe! We have a second weed called pigweed, but no wild pigs. I think it’s called pigweed as it was an Indigenous amaranth crop, which American settlers set their pigs onto, ending that ancient agriculture. But it grows wild now!
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Do you know that there are two kinds of lamb’s quarter . One with all green and the other, the root is red . The first one with all green is the best to eat . When it was boiled, you can enjoy the flavor of the wild nature, only a few bites, the lamb’s quarter melted in your mouth and tongue . Every year, when Spring and Summer are coming, I love to pick lamb’s quarter to eat it and it has been more than 15 years till now I still love to eat that .Thanks for your reply .
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Ah, thanks. We call the red root one pigweed and the others lamb’s quarter. I agree. It’s a fine taste!
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Another irony is that it’s a Chenopodium (Chenopodium album). You know what else is a Chenopodium? Quinoa! (Chenopodium quinoa). They have the very same health and nutritive benefits, yet one is the super-food of the day while the other is a weed and a scourge.
In the iconic words of Joni Mitchell: We’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden.
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SO tasty! Better than spinach.
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What a sight. I’ve only harvested lambs quarter as a nutritious edible when it volunteered here and there in a garden. Who’d of guess it is related to quinoa?
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