Land of Opportunity
Trevor Nearburg is foraging for evening primrose just steps away from Beerburg Brewing in Austin on a sunny spring morning. The familiar pink blooms that carpet the Hill Country at this time of year have been used as a medicine for hundreds of years, and Nearburg, who is an herbalist as well as a brewer, is developing a beer made with the flower. Oil from the seeds contains gamma-linolenic fatty acids, which aid brain function and are believed to ease anxiety and depression.
“Our first year, everything was a crisis, and I’m just now really able to focus entirely on the foraging,” Nearburg says of
