"Kukagami's edible wild foods cover fruits, vegetables, nuts, mushrooms, lichen, teas and barks. Healing medicines are just as abundant and come from pine trees (red, white and jack), balsam firs, spruce and hemlock whose needles, bark or resin provide antiseptics, cold, cough and chest remedies."

"The lawn was a mixture of lamb's quarters, ground ivy, a mint called Creeping Charlie, daisy leaves and plantain. Other foods nearby were strawberry leaves, roses, rosehips, day lilies, wild leeks and more. Wild leeks added tang to our cheese sandwiches and many plant seeds enhanced our salads, breads and cookies."

"Much of the versatile cattail may be eaten.... Immature cattail flower spikes are picked just before bursting from their sheaf of leaves, cooked, spread with butter and eaten like corn-on-the-cob. Cattails can also be peeled and eaten raw, added to salads, cooked like asparagus, ground into flour, or used instead of pickles or potato."

"Berries and wild grapes turned into wine on the premises, providing a wine-tasting session on Saturday night. Afterwards we sat on rocks along the shore, watching shooting stars drop through the Milky Way while loon calls echoed up and down the lake."