Day Trip to Takai’i
After making fast friends with Heifara & Siki, Blight & Isrin in a valley near Mami Faatiarau’s, Raiarii and I gladly accepted an invitation on an island tour. Well-versed in Marquesan culture, Blight brought the island to life recounting the history and legends that made each place special. First he brought us to a valley […]
Food Foraging and Our Forgotten Bioregional Educations: What we don’t even know we don’t know
In the spirit of Thor and Liv Heyerdahl’s ‘Back to Nature’ adventure almost a hundred years earlier, I embraced my time in Marquesas as a chance to live a little closer to the Source. The relatively low populations and highly fertile soil make for lots of nature’s edibles to be foraged with permission from the […]
