Members of the Traditional Ecological Inquiry Program dig shallow pits for heated rocks and layers of vegetation and foliage. Two separate teams tried different materials, methods, and cooking times with their respective batches of camas bulbs.
Summer is prime time for gathering and baking camas across the Pacific Northwest. Native people usually harvest – then bake – the plant’s bulbs, as part of their First Foods menu.
And there was even a “bake-off” held outside Eugene, recently…