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Potential fungi finds include turkey tail, chicken of the woods, porcini and morels; other possible goodies include miner’s lettuce, wild radish and pine pollen.

While many of his peers are giving us beet salads, Boden is seducing diners with an elegant assembly of soft fried apples, some juicy pink grapefruit and a crown of miner’s lettuce, anointed with buttermilk tamari.

Mr. House’s menu reflects the vibe, relying heavily on wild plants and herbs: tender miner’s lettuce, crunchy knotweed, mushrooms and wildflowers.

This winter, after weeks of rain watered a carpet of leeks and miner’s lettuce, I collected the ingredients for a wild pesto and salad in the local parks.

She’s learned to love the Northwest seasons and harvests — here, as she wrote in the book, “Even winter, which is typically a dead zone back East, provided hardy greens like kale and collards, and frost-resistant roots like sunchokes. And no one need wait for asparagus to give the sign that spring has arrived: The Northwest has stinging nettle as its siren — miner’s lettuce and wild watercress, too. All of this is for the taking.”