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Thick vegetation lines the trail, including giant cottonwood, creek dogwood, willow and red cedar trees, as well as various species of fern, red columbine, thistle, wild ginger and dozens of other native plants.

Of the restaurant’s dozens of fermentation experiments, almost half use indigenous ingredients like wild ginger, spruce tips and grains.

In “The Spring Ephemerals,” a trillium belongs to a complex ecosystem of “rue anemone, masses // of colt’s foot, wild ginger, blood root and may- / apples, bracken and fiddlehead fern.”

The metal walkway with the eight-foot incline is flanked by warehouses and a floral arrangement of Allegheny serviceberry, eastern redbuds, wild ginger and magnolia trees.

My fingers played among the herbs in my basket: rosemary, rue, the root of wild ginger, and creeping thyme.