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- For those in the NYC metro area, "Wildman" Steve Brill organizes foraging outings in the area's parks. Wild Food! is his site. Eating Central Park gives some background on him. Foraging with "Wildman" Steve Brill recounts one of his Central Park walks. See his book and read review: Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants in Wild (And Not So Wild Places).
- I have taken pictures on many of Wildman's tours in NYC. I have them organized in two ways: In plant alphabetical order and in walking tour order. Over 1000 pictures.
- In the Boston area Russ Cohen runs foraging outings in his spare time. His site has his schedule, his bio, an Edible Wild Plant Bibliography, and some recipes. He has now written a book: Wild Plants I Have Known...and Eaten. (See page bottom to switch to other pages.)
- In Western Massachusetts Blanche Derby leads wild weed walks and give talks. She has also written the book My Wild Friends, Free Food From Field and Forest. Her site, with book info and tour schedule, is Edible Wild Plants.
- Vickie Shufer gives tours around Virginia Beach. Her site is Eco Images. Also see her "The Wild Foods Forum," a 16-page bimonthly newsletter. Feature articles on wild plants and how to use them for food, medicine & crafts. Also includes recipes, book reviews, trip reports, and networking.
- Peter Gail has a site on The National Dandelion Cookoff!! on the first weekend in May each year. Held in Dover, Ohio.
- Robert "Bobcat" Saunders in Northeast New Jersey has put up Going Wilder In The Kitchen. In addition to cooking tips he has information, pictures, and scans of some plants. He also teaches "Going Wilder in the Kitchen" classes, about cooking and healing with wild plants and mushrooms, for Nature centers and organizations in the NY-NJ-PA area.
- Traditional Herbal & Plant Knowledge, Identifications is a database and link page by the late Paula Giese. Herbs used mostly by Anishinaabeg people. Berries by the Katsi. Minnesota area native plants.
- The Cedar Mountain Herb School in La Conner, WA has an Herbal Apprenticeship Program on a weekend each month throughout the summer. Also a Botanical Primer that meets on weekday evenings in the winter.
- Deb Schwartz has This month's feature where she highlights a different edible plant each month. Prior months are also available.
- Rose Barlow in Viroqua, Wisconsin has Prodigal Gardens: Medicinal Herbs & Wild Foods. See nice writeups on the plants she collects by month.
- Norm Kidder is part of Primitive Ways. A group that does stone age reenactments at a park just south of Livermore CA. He knows plants well too. Links to pictures of edible plants of CA are a ways down the page.
- Subherbs: Foraging for "Wild" Herbs in Your Own Backyard by Robert K. Henderson covers plants typical to a cultivated yard.
- Harvesting the Elderberry has various suggestions for removing the tiny stems.
- Bonnie Farner of Wild Mountain Herbs gives tours identifying wild edible, medicinial, useful and posionous plants of North Carolina and Tennessee.
- Making Wines from Wild Plants also includes information on gathering berries.
- Tim Smith publishes a web log, the The Moose Dung Gazette, in which there is sometimes information on eating wild plants. Jack Mountain bushcraft also has a Wild Food Weekend.
- Kat Morgenstern has an Educational Forum and Networking Resource for Ethnobotany and
Eco-travel at Sacred Earth.
- Dave Fischer's Marvelous Mushroom Homepage is from an author of a couple books. When the Internet was smaller he maintained the Mushroomers Online! directory of mycophiles.
- The definition of foraging is to gather food that does not try to get away from you. Clams are one type of food that is foraged for and is not a plant. Clams and Clamming is a page of links on this.
- Jerri Willmore has a few Recipes for edible weeds.
- Herbalist Patricia Kyritsi Howell runs the school BotanoLogos. In Mountain City, GA.
- MushroomsNY is a web site by Federico Savini. Pictures of mushrooms he has found in NYC. [now in archive.org]
- WildPantry.com is a small company in southeastern Tennessee that supplies wild foods and other natural products. Too many different products to list here.
- You can become a hardcore forager is a getting started guide by Larry Cywin. From Backwoods Home Magazine.
- Edible Landscaping offers a variety of beautiful plants, all of which are absolutely delicious as well. Has a web based forum for questions.
- Wild Food Adventures, run by John Kallas, provides expertise in wild edible plants through workshops, expeditions, presentations, outdoor guiding, and outfitting anywhere in North America. Based in Portland, Oregon. Has newsletter. Don't miss the biography of Euell Gibbons, The Father of Modern Wild Foods.
- WildHarvest.Com has recipes and a plug to shop at their Earthy Delights stores in Michigan. Focuses on fiddleheads, ramps, and mushrooms.
- Dining on the Wilds, by John Goude, is a site on Learning Nature through Wild Edible Plants and Ethnobotany. It is selling a book and six professional videos with views of over 300 North American wild plants. Tours are given. See table on Wild Edible Plant Nutrition.
- The School of Self-Reliance has Wild Food Foraging, pages intended to be an aid to learning about wild edibles. Also see Why Eat Wild Food?, an expanded chapter of Christopher Nyerges' Guide to Wild Foods. Gives many reasons to avoid commercial food, and to find, identify, and use wild food.
- Natural-list: Home. Richard Nadeau is a forest forager for your natural and wild foods, herbs and crafts.
- Ila Hatter's Wildcrafting.com sells videos and books on collecting plant materials in their natural habitat for food, medicine, and craft.
- Wild Mountain Herbs sells many things that could be gathered.
- Australian Native Foods gets into Australia's unique edible plants and animals that could form the basis for a substantial and sustainable industry. See plant profiles along the left.
- Barry Sinervo teaches an animal behavior course at UCSC. One day is on Optimal Foraging Behavior. Here are his class notes. [now in archive.org]
- A search on foraging at Amazon.com gets a few good ones amongst many others and out-of-print ones. Here's an extracted list of relevant Books on "Foraging".
- Over 1000 plant pictures from NYC foraging walks indexed in plant alphabetical order. Grouped by edibility. Split between plants and mushrooms. Pictures within plants ordered by season.
- Henriette Kress, a herbalist and tour guide in Finland, wrote the first herb FAQ for the herb newsgroup. Her Herbal Homepage has a culinary herb FAQ, a plant database, and more.
- Plants for a Future, in England, is a resource and information centre for edible and other useful plants. Has 7000 useful plant database. This is the US search site: Plants For A Future - Database Search.
- Fruits of Warm Climates is an online book by Julia F. Morton. Organized by fruit. Formerly a printed book.
- Alternative Nature Online Herbal has The Wild Medicinal Herb Picture Gallery. Some are on edible wild plants.
- Grapes, Blackberries, Strawberries, Huckleberries & Gooseberries covers many berries found in these families. Good pictures and histories on them. Part of the Wayne's World site. [now in archive.org]
- FoodplantDB is a SQL database created from Yanovsky, Elias. 1936. Food Plants of the North American Indians. This publication reviewed approximately 80 years of literature, back to around 1850, listing 1,112 species in 444 genera of plants among 120 families, used for food by the North American Indians. Best way to find something is to put an asterisk in and do a search.
- Robert Freedman has compiled Famine Foods, a database of plants that are not normally considered as crops, but are consumed in times of famine. Listed alphabetically by family (Latin name).
- Jack Campin has a Guide to Plant Relationships (for allergy and intolerance identification). 222K page with long list of plant relationships.
- Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases include one for ethnobotanical uses.
- The USDA Plants Database can be searched for edibles.
- Common Weeds of No-Till Cropping Systems describes perennial weeds that become more prevalent in no-tillage fields. Has some that are edible.
- U of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Weed Science has a web site with both edible and non-edible weeds mixed. No edibility info. The Weed Science Society of America has a Weed Photo List. Also see the index Intriguing World of Weeds and
Take a Weed to Lunch.
- Virginia Tech has a Weed Identification Guide of common weeds and weed seedlings found throughout Virginia and the Southeastern U.S.
- The Cornell Poisonous Plants Page is helpful for knowing what not to forage for.
- Mark's Fruit Crops is a site by a Professor of Horticulture where you'll find information on the taxonomy, history, production, medicinal and nutritional properties, general culture, and post harvest handling of over 30 of the world's major fruit crops.
- Introduction and Domestication of Rare and Wild Fruit and Nut Trees for Desert Areas covers some unusual ones. Includes pictures.
- The list that is the most foraging oriented is Forage Ahead. Active but most posts are on topic. Formerly this list was Wild Edibles, but the spam drove it to a new name. Go to old one to see the archives.
- There is another list on Yahoo called edibleweeds. It has little activity.
- Another Yahoo group is Wild Forager. Very active, but it isn't clear just how on topic the posts are. Also they have an archive website: Wild Forager.
- Apparently related to the above is Wild Forager Educational Archives, which is a web based forum. More into growing foods than foraging for them.
- downsizer.net has web forum on Foraging. The light discussion is mostly on mushrooms.
- W PA Mushroom Club is affliated with the largest mushroom club in the area.
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