Flatout Games loves their unique themes: quilts for cats, turning playing cards into salad, wizard foxes, bee kingdoms, and of course the Pacific Northwest. Now they’re back with a crunchy roll and write that will have you traipsing around the countryside looking for good eats.

Take a walk with me through the woods as we play Forage.

The Bounty of Nature

Many years ago I read a book by famed author Barbara Kingsolver called Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, a memoir about how she and her family relocated to Virginia and committed to living off only what they could grow, forage, or trade for in the local community. It was fascinating because it introduced me to so many plants that I’d never heard of before. Fiddlehead ferns…you could eat them? Morel mushrooms that some people call “miracles” because it’s a miracle if you find them?

While I never did anything with that knowledge, it really captivated me, and led me to even more books on the same topic like The Mushroom Hunters: On the Trail of an Underground America, about people who can make tens of thousands of dollars taking a single trip into Canada to forage for mushrooms.

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