Day 4: HI Eat Local Challenge

Day 4 of our Eat Local Challenge here in Hawai'i. Video highlights kiawe and turk's cap hibiscus flowers. . . . . . . . . . . Here's a list of everything I ate today. All local. SF = Savage Farms (my house!) Brunch: pork leftovers (see…

Day 3: HI Eat Local Challenge

Day 3 of our Eat Local Challenge. I made this short little video, which shows harvesting some wild grass seeds, thimbleberry greens (Rubus rosifolius), false awa leaves (Piper auritum), and kukui nuts (Aleurites moluccana). I roasted the kukui…

Day 2: HI Eat Local Challenge

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Day 2 of our Eat Local Challenge in Hawai'i. This video highlights wild amaranth (Amaranthus spinosus) greens, which were part of my breakfast and dinner. Here's what I ate for the day... SF = Savage Farms…

Day 1: Hawaii Eat Local Challenge

One week Eat Local Challenge is underway! All of my meals were 100% local today, and I tried to document some of the wild foods that made it onto my plate and into my mouth in this video. . . . SF = Savage Farms (my place) Breakfast: cacao…

Wild Food Plants of Hawai’i: available for online sales

Beloved friends, I am so excited to share my new book Wild Food Plants of Hawai'i with you! This book was a labor of love, a creative processes unlike any I have ever experienced before. Grateful to have this avenue to share my long term passion…

Spring Wild Wanderings

I'm over the moon for this lavendar (grown organically by my Aunty in Kula), oat straw, lemon rind, honey milk tea, with an oh-so-flavorfull orange blossom floating on top. Spring in the subtropics of Maui. Gearing up for my son Zeb's Baby…

Food and Love

Pule 'Ai I ola nö ke kino I ka maona o ka 'öpü I mä'ona nö ka 'öpü me ke aloha o ka makua E pü pa'akai käkou me ke mahalo Ua loa'a ho'i iä käkou ka'ai a me ke aloha The body lives because the Stomach is satisfied The stomach…

Gargantuan Wild Beach Almond’s on Molokai

This past weekend I took a much needed camping trip to Molokai. We feasted on some wild foods, including these gargantuan False Kamani (Terminalia catappa). In my book Wild Food Plants of Hawai'i, I call them Beach Almond's. You can purchase…

Book Release Postponed

Book Release ***POSTPONED*** due to shipping issues. If you live on Maui and are still interested in buying it hot off the press, please message me. price is $29.95 The first 200 books printed have a small kine glitch, so I am offering to…

Kiawe and Persimmon Raw Pie

Our persimmon tree is dumping down juicy, sweet, delicious persimmons right now. We hiked into Haleakala Crater for my husband's birthday, so this is a belated birthday pie made just for him using kiawe flour and persimmons. so ono!

Wild Food Meal Extravaganza

A few weeks ago I prepared a 7-course wild food meal for Hawaii's Center for Food Safety, with the help of some awesome new foraging friends. Chef Rob Ramshur had contacted me several times about learning wild edibles on Maui, but I had…

The Gift of Wild Foods – Sunny Savage at TedxMaui

I am so excited to share my TedxMaui talk, which just went live today! The vital message is to eat one wild food every day! What an exhilirating day it was, with some fabulous presenters in the mix. Check check it out. http://youtu.be/CpB0eF19nDQ