Halbkat Cindy - Idiots guides : foraging

Foraging

by Mark Merriwether Vorderbruggen, PhD
Recipes and food photos by
Cindy Halbkat and Eric Orr

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Introduction

Welcome to my world, the world of a forager! Its a world filled with free, nutritious, and delicious fruits, flowers, roots, tubers, shoots, nuts, mushrooms, and foliage all within walking distance of your front door. Are you looking for novel, exotic tastes? Forage! Are you looking to bond more closely with nature? Forage! Are you looking to save money or ensure food for your family during rough times? Forage! Do you want to jump on the latest foodie fad? Forage!

This book is designed to get you started exploring wild foods. is where youll find delectable recipes to turn your harvest of weeds into foods fit for royalty or more importantly, for your friends and family!

The best way to use this book is to spend a lot of time studying the plant pictures and information provided in Chapter 2. Use the pictures to train your eyes to spot these edible plants among natures sea of wild green. Use the detailed information to train your brain as to when, where, and how to find and harvest the plants. If you just walk out into the woods with this book in hand expecting to immediately find lots of foods, you may be disappointed. Foraging requires study, because knowing a plant is edible is almost useless if you dont know when and where to find it.

Acknowledgments and Photo Credits

In regards to learning foraging, humble and loving acknowledgments must go out to people who are just as responsible for this book as I. To my parents, Jim and Arleen Vorderbruggen, who were my first teachers of wild foods; to my wife and children who graciously accept their caveman husband/father; to Teri MacArthur and Karie Briscoe for access to the lands under their supervision; to my fellow foragers and nature experts Sam Thayer, Melissa Price, Green Deane, Karen Stephenson, Steve Brill, Mike Krebill, David Spar, Michael Kuo, Pascal Baudar, Sam Coffman, and Karen Raczewshi Monger, from whom I learn new stuff every day; and to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit who gave me what is being shared with you.

I must also give great thanks and credit to the following people who supplied a few of the pictures for this book:

Samuel Thayer for pictures of arrowhead tubers, common mallow leaves, shepherds purse, and cattail rhizome.

Karen A. Stephenson of www.ediblewildfood.com for the picture of pineapple weed leaves.

Pascal Baudar for the picture of pineapple weed flowers.

Brandy McDaniel and Jacob Valdez for pictures of morel stems and morel caps.

Laura Merriman for the picture of a white morel.

Robert Klips for the pictures of male and female black walnut flowers.

Jason Hollinger (Mushroom Observer) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons for the picture of a false morel.

Eric Orr for pictures of golden chanterelle stem, cap, and side view.

Antonio Abbatiello [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons, for the photo of poisonous chanterelle mimic Jack OLanterns (Omphalotus olearius).

voir ci-dessous / (Self-photographed) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0), GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html), CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) or CC BY 2.5 for the chicken of the woods photograph.

(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5)], via Wikimedia Commons, for close-up of chicken of the woods.

Jsadlowe [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons for the photo of the shelf upper surface of chicken of the woods.

PJeganathan (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons for the photo of the shelf lower surface of chicken of the woods.

Antonio Abbatiello [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons for the Jack OLantern mushrooms photo.

Dr. K. Sowjanya Sree, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, India, for the duckweed flower picture.

Dr. Klaus-J Appenroth, University of Jena, Germany, for the duckweed roots picture.

Dr. M. Morikawa for the Lemna minor HokuMori from the Botanic Garden Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.