Forget weeding — Pacific Northwest foragers are turning invasive plants into soap, baskets and dye
- Posted on May 30, 2026
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Forget weeding — Pacific Northwest foragers are turning invasive plants into soap, baskets and dye
You may have been weeding wrong this whole time. What if the most radical thing you could do for the Pacific Northwest landscape this weekend wasn’t donating to a conservation fund or signing a petition — but pulling English ivy out of the ground and turning it into soap? That’s exactly the philosophy driving Wildwood Folk School, a Portland-area nonprofit that teaches foraging, plant ...
