Ocean Beach Edible wild plants and foraging It hardly needs to be

It hardly needs to be argued: nothing has contributed more to the mythology of California than the movies

From sprawling fields of showy hillside poppies

and the cultural memory of Native California

and the birth of John Steinbeck's first novel

As Tony Platt shows in The Scandal of Cal

Ocean Beach Edible wild plants and foraging It hardly needs to beA charmingly illustrated nature guide to Ocean Beach and the coastal ecology of San Francisco. Grab your beach blanket and your puffy jacket (this is San Francisco, after all) and get ready to see Ocean Beach like never before. Longtime local surfer and scientist Eddy Rubin celebrates this magical sandy stretch through stories of its animals and plants and the natural and human forces that have shaped this coastal environment. From sand dollars and