I am back on the East coast! Oh my! Of course just as I was starting to LOVE California, make new friends, sweethearts, job opportunities, I go and buy a plane ticket. I have a decent amount of seaweed to sell from last season and I want to do so before the next harvest season. [...]

My friend Maria forwarded me this email today. I am so happy to hear that my seaweed recipes are making thier way around different communities. I am also really happy to hear that people are networking and sharing important healthful information with eachother. Email from one friend to another!…  thanks Dori! Hi everyone, I just [...]

I’m sitting in a café in Ojai, California with my friend Roberto. Roberto is a cook and a permaculturist among other activities. Roberto and I share a passion for food. He has expressed interest in the past for helping me with my seaweed business. We met up yesterday at a cookout where Roberto was busily [...]

Share your experience and experience the unknown. I decided to take a retreat to Marin, CA where my friend works in the Headlands. It’s pouring rain and windy and I am so happy to be in a place where I walk up the street and casually stroll by a great blue heron and calmly cross [...]

Here in San Francisco I have been busing, walking, biking and hitching rides to and from a variety of volunteer opportunities in hopes of making connections and getting my hands into the dirt. I took a workshop at Hayes Valley Farm called Permaculture Bootcamp. We opened up the three hour course with the eight or [...]

Below is a blurb from the New Amsterdam Market’s market update for this coming weekend. My Friend Rebecca will be selling at this market. Rebecca and I visited Ryan Drum on Waldron Island in the San Juan Islands early this month. He was kind enough to let us stay in a little cabin on his [...]

Here I am on the West Coast. Preparing this morning to head south to take a Course in Permaculture. I am really looking forward to this! The landscape of the back country of Santa Barbara is sure to be new and interesting. Last week while visiting the farm that I will be volunteering at in [...]

It feels like fall! The children I worked with over the past two years are back to school, it’s hitting me now that I will not be singing, teaching, learning new songs with them. While my life is changing, the leaves are changing and I am driving from state to state visiting friends, family and [...]

I sold seaweed last weekend at the NOFA summer conference. I attended a few workshops on natural beekeeping and apitherapy (healing with bee products). Sally Fallon Morell was a key note speaker. The focus of her talk was salt. In case you don’t know Sally, she’s written a well known whole foods cook book called [...]

Our last harvest for this set of tides was Monday. My friend Maria showed up on Sunday afternoon- fresh from a permaculture course she took in Southern Maine. Lovely gal she is, I put her right to work packaging seaweed, and she taught me a beautiful song while we worked. “I’ve got this everlasting light/ [...]