"Our foods are our teachers" — As spring breaks through the cold, gray skies of the Pacific Northwest winter, Native foods educator and Muckleshoot Indian Tribe member Valerie Segrest harvests nettles with her two young daughters, teaching them how to sustainably cultivate these greens that deliver essential nutrition and medicine.

(Produced by Lauren Frohne / The Seattle Times)

Read our full story "First Foods: How Native people are revitalizing the natural nourishment of the Pacific Northwest"
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Originally published July 10, 2022


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