Coast is a great place to forage! I live only a days drive from the Ocean but it’s across a border so I’m not even going to try to go bring back foraged compost ingredients. Be sure to rinse the Salt out of anything you pick up by the Ocean.Story of my life too. I rarely ever get to run a uniform canopy bc I'm always testing.
Loved your post. We have a lot in common, all the way back to when/why we got started with cannabis. I tried to self medicate for depression in middle school and mostly high school, but it was the late 80s and early 90s, so attitudes about cannabis were still repressive as fuck and heavy handed (which ironically had the effect of pushing me away from cannabis to a decade + of battling heroin addiction). Thankfully, cannabis still helps me, I honestly can't credit it enough for vastly improving my quality of life. It sounds like you have the same reverence and respect for the plants.
Also I love your foraging. I've only begun doing this myself, about a year ago, when I discovered I could easily justb pick up several large wild corvid feathers a day, and just make my own feather meal instead of supporting the abjectly cruel factory farms by buying their waste products. The best part is that the foraged feathers are far superior. Wild crows eat all types of shit, battery hens and CAFO chickens basically eat industrial waste. My next foraging investigations are the Oregon coast (shells, kelp, sand, seabird guano (possibly) and carcasses, crab shells and fish bones from the commercial filet operations on the piers) and a forested urban hill near downtown where I live, and can collect decomposed organic matter, leaf litter, moss, and I dont know what else bc I haven't explored there very much yet!). But you've got me thinking much larger now, considering the mineral foraging you've done.
Anyways I look forward to shooting the proverbial shit
