Mustard gossip. Knotweed recipes. Cow parsnips. Serviceberry appreciation. Hogweed warnings. Dead man’s fingers. The incredibly knowledgeable and entertaining Alexis Nikole Nelson a.k.a. @BlackForager walks us through Foraging Ecology with a ginormous bushel of tips & tricks for finding edibles at all times of the year, from blossoms to fungus. Belly up for some invasive snacks, elusive mushrooms, magnolia cookies, mugwort potatoes, violet cocktails, foraging guides, weed trivia and tips to avoid poisonous berries. Also: finding community, history, land stewardship and why foraging is important, empowering and quite tasty.

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More links you may find of use:

Joseph Beth bookstore in Cincinnati

EAT THE KNOTWEED

Uses of plants in Artemisia: the same genus as mugwort

Mugwort info

Michael Twitty’s book, The Cooking Gene

The Scratch and Sniff Book of Weed

Dead Man’s Fingers

Look at this boggling mushroom