FURTHER INFORMATION:

PEOPLE
There are a number of Teachers who are worth listening time whenever you can get the chance to hear them. This is my personal A-list of the ones I've heard and really like:

Tom Brown, Jr. (The Tracker)--author, Teacher, runs the Tracker School in NJ. Awesome.
David Winston--Herbalist extraordinaire, owner of "Herbalist and Alchemist" herbal supplies. Brilliant.
Michael Moore--Herbalist, Teacher, author, runs SW School of Botanical Medicine. Brilliant.
Peeka Trenkle--Herbalist and Teacher.
Robin Rose Bennett--Herbalist, Teacher, Green Witch
Karen Sherwood--Teacher and Friend of Plants.
David Hoffman--Herbalist, author, Teacher, gadfly.
Christopher Hobbs--Herbalist, Teacher, author, cool dancer.
Gary Lincoff--Mushroom expert, author of Audobon's Guide.
"Wildman" Steve Brill--Teacher, author, etc. about edible wild plants.
Reverend John Caswell--my Uncle John, the wisest man I know.
Some guy I met in the woods.

PLANTS:
The Basic Text is--
"A Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants, of Eastern and Central North America" (Peterson Field Guide Series), Lee Allen Peterson, 1977, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston.
It is invaluable because it permits careful identification of the plant in question.

Useful and Interesting--
"Tom Brown's Guide to Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants", Tom Brown, Jr., 1985, Berkely Books, New York.

Very useful, with in depth commentary--
"Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants in Wild (and Not So Wild) Places" Wildman Steve Brill, 1994 Wm. Morrow Publishers
Support the author, buy it direct from his website (below).

COOKBOOKS:
"Native Harvests", Barrie Kavasch, 1979, Vintage Books, New York.
"Wild Food", Roger Phillips, 1986, Little, Brown and Company, Boston.

MUSHROOMS:
The Basic Text is--
"The Audobon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms", Gary Lincoff, 1981, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York. A precise guide for identification, especially in the NE US.
Others--
"How to Identify Mushrooms to Genus I: Macroscopic Features", David L. Largent, 1986, Mad River Press, Eureka, CA.
"Mushrooms of North America", Roger Phillips, 1991, Little, Brown, and Company, Boston.

MEDICINAL PLANTS:
"The Holistic Herbal", David Hoffman, 1983, Element Books Ltd, Longmead, Shaftesbury, Dorset, U.K.
"Herbal Therapy & Supplements, A Scientific & Traditional Approach" Merrily A. Kuhn and David Winston, 2000, Lippincott, NY.
"The Green Pharmacy", James A. Duke, Ph.D. 1997, St. Martin's Press

WEBSITES
Links to other good places:
http://www.botanical.com/botanical/links.html

James Duke's heavy weight Reference Databases, USDA
http://www.ars-grin.gov/duke/

Wildman Steve Brill's--full of good information, interesting recipes, and bad humor.
http://www.wildmanstevebrill.com/
also, Don Wiss took marvelous pictures of wild edibles, good help for identification, and put them on Foraging Pictures

Michael Moore (the herbalist) page for the SouthWest School of Botanical Medicine. http://www.swsbm.com/HOMEPAGE/HomePage.html

Tom Brown, Jr.'s incredible Tracker School http://www.trackerschool.com/

David Winston's own site http://www.herbaltherapeutics.net

Christopher Hobbs site is http://www.christopherhobbs.com

To find a mushroom (mycology) group near you in North America
http://www.mykoweb.com/na_mycos.html
or in New Jersey see http://www.njmyco.org a great group. See also "Edible Wild Mushrooms" at
www.crc.agri.umn.edu/~jamesg/ewm/intro.html for a good introduction.

Other knowledgeable people I have heard but not had the chance to meet are:
Henriette Kress, A.H.G. at http://www.ibiblio.org/herbmed/,
John Kallas, Ph. D. of Wild Food Adventures at http://www.wildfoodadventures.com and
John Goude, Dining on the Wilds at http://www.edibleplants.com
Barry Nichols at http://www.persimmonpudding.com

Cab's Wild Food Page--from Great Britain http://cabd0.tripod.com/cabsmushroompage/

©Copyright Robert Saunders 2002