Storied Grounds

GaiaHub Wild Food
for Notion

your private hub for all things wild food

Key Features

End the madness of juggling a million calendars and notebooks with a dynamic digital repository of wild foods that grows and evolves as you do
Stay on top of all of your wild food processing and the contents of your larder so none of your hauls go bad ever again!
Banish FOMO by knowing exactly when and where to harvest each season, and how you can align your activities with your values and goals
Illustrate and deepen your understanding of relationships between particular land bases, forms of life, habitats, geological deposits, and human stories

Easily attribute notes to relevant teachers and then retrieve them for effortless assembly of presentations, writings, and more
Manage all of the details surrounding your ongoing studies and teaching activities in one place
Display all of your photos from the field in one central location that also links to relevant species, lands, habitats, people, organizations, and more
Free your wild food knowledge from silos to deepen your grasp of the bigger ecological picture
Operates within Notion—a free, cloud-based software with a large user community and robust user support

Peek inside the product...

Wild Food Repository

Dynamic, flexible, and infinitely expandable repository of wild foods pre-loaded with 150+ wild edible plants, fungi, and animals found in North America
Includes 138 wild edible plants outlined in Sam Thayer’s books The Forager’s Harvest, Nature’s Garden, and Incredible Wild Edibles, along with harvest seasons and dates for all of their harvestable parts in his region of the United States
Taxonomic Data— catalog common names, Latin names, family names for all species, genera, and groups of life forms
Ecological Data— link individual foods to specific companion species, habitats, geological deposits, substrates, predators and prey
Field Data— capture notes on field identification, wildcrafting, bushcraft, cultivation, and more

Food Processing

Stay on top of next steps and timelines for all of your wild food processing from drying to leaching and more
Receive automated email reminders to help you stay on track and avoid losing your haul
Catalog your favorite recipes and link them to key species

Larder

View and manage the contents of your entire larder at a glance, as well as a historical view of all past contents
Quickly discern the precise storage locations of individual foods, how long you’ve had them, their expiration dates, and schedule reminders to ensure nothing goes bad ever again!
Instantly know the precise origin of your wildharvested ingredients in terms of location and time of harvest
Add foods that you have personally harvested OR items acquired through purchase, trade, or barter—and view them all in one place

Field Activities

Plan and capture all field activities ranging from foraging to hunting to land stewardship using an innovative interface that allows you to view species harvestable by season, the lands near you from which you can harvest, relevant habitats found within those landscapes, and your own historical harvest data
View all peak harvest seasons and dates as outlined in Sam Thayer’s books The Forager’s Harvest, Nature’s Garden, and Incredible Wild Edibles… and adjust these dates and seasons as needed for your climate!
Ensure that your activities on the landscape align with your values with the help of special features that are activated when you complete the BONUS Define Values and Goals Workbook

Connect to Place

Catalog all of the land bases you visit to wildcraft, connect with the landscape, attend classes, and lead programs
Chart the connections between key habitats, particular wild edibles, and the lands you frequent
View the wild foods coming into and out of season in your bioregion throughout the calendar year
Story the landscape with the help of features that connect history, tradition, and lore to the life forms and lands you work with

Ideas + Images

Catalog all of the books and other resources that are relevant to your studies and practice
Capture your notes and link them dynamically to species, lands, teachers, and resources—forming your own private Wiki that can grow and evolve as you do
Display all of your images from the field, classes, and events in a beautiful gallery searchable by species, location, habitat, person, date, and more
Instantly retrieve images, notes, studies, and citations for presentations, classes, and assignments

Bonuses

Define Values and Goals Workbook

This two-part workbook offers an area to think deliberately about who and how you want to be on the landscape, some frameworks to jumpstart reflection, and resources on targeted subjects that you may wish to explore
Values and goals that you define within this workbook are automatically drawn into other parts of the GaiaHub system to deepen self-awareness, and encourage alignment and accountability when planning activities

Mini Portals

Learner— Manage assignments, coursework, and notes for herbal school or self-directed study
Educator— Plan and visualize upcoming and past events, collaborating organizations, and notes

Onboarding

Get up to speed fast with access to 4 hours of instructional video breaking down how to use all of the features included in GaiaHub Wild Food Edition
View Hacks for Accessibility + Ease for a curated list of tools and strategies designed to make Notion more accessible and joyful for all