Thrillist: How to forage this fall according to foraging experts at Seed & Spoon
You’d think it’d be easy to spot long, green leaves in the desert. Turns out finding yucca plants is actually quite the task. I walk over blue hills and up mounds of sand, looking around small cacti and shrubs of grass until I finally spot the pointy, waxy plant firmly rooted in the ground. After digging out the root, my grandmother and I bring the foraged goods to our hogan.
Later that afternoon, my grandmother removes the outer layer of the root and smashes it between rocks to bring the táláwosh out. Táláwosh is a sudsy substance that oozes out of the fibers and, when mixed with water, is a natural cleanser that leaves skin and hair silky clean. She then uses this yucca to wash my hair. Our people have been foraging this way for thousands of years.
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