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Note: BC Car-Free was published in 1999 and much of the content is woefully out-of-date. Use it to discover opportunities to explore but verify logistics like transportation schedules, outfitters and so on with a web search before heading out.

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MOMENTUM Magazine

"...the best thing about BC Car-Free is that it challenges the assumption that you have to have a vehicle to escape the city."

Briana Doyle

Au Naturel

Cattails

A veritable supermarket on a stick, cattails were once a source of sustenance as well as comfort to Pacific Northwest natives. Young shoots can be eaten as greens in the spring while young flower spikes can be roasted and eaten like cobs of corn. Young roots or rhizomes (underground stems) can be peeled and eaten as is — sashimi-style, hold the wasabi — or dried and pulverized into flour. Early settlers too discovered that cattail pollen could be harvested and added to bread or pancakes. Cattail down or fluff was collected in autumn for use as a wound dressing or for stuffing pillows and bedding. Cattail leaves found use in native basketry.

Illustration by Manami Kimura

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