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1. High-Dollar Crops that Grow Themselves:
Foraged Foods that All the Chefs Want
By Frank Hyman, Feral Feast columnist for Paleo magazine
www.frankhyman.com
Foraging Groups in NC
www.piedmontwildlifecenter.org: foraging and cooking classes.
Facebook: NC Mushroom Group: Help with ID, free forays.
www.meetup.com/Raleigh-area-mushroom-hunters: Free forays.
www.pickardsmountain.org: Hosts paid forays in Chatham Co.
Other professional foragers websites
www.mushroommountain.com: sells mycelia, has videos, recipes.
www.notastelikehome.org: price list, foraging for children.
https://www.facebook.com/woodfruit: grows mushrooms in Durham.
www.willswildherbs.org: Will Endres teaches about wild plants.
www.wildmanstevebrill.com: NY forager has cookbooks and foraging app.
www.eattheweeds.com: FL Green Deane has posts,videos on wild plants.
Books (an incomplete list)
www.abebooks.com: Independent used book stores (alt. to Amazon).
A Field Guide to Southern Mushrooms
Peterson Field Guides: Mushrooms
Backyard Foraging by Ellen Zachos (plants and mushrooms)
The Mushroom Hunters by Langdon Cook, about NW foragers.
Forager’s Harvest and Nature’s Garden, both by Samuel Thayer.
Magazines
Paleo magazine (6x/year), starting with February issue, will carry the only
national foraging column, “Feral Feast,” by Frank Hyman.
Tools
Sharp pocket knife to cut stalks. Small paint brush to remove dirt.
Hori-hori knife to cut roots and dig bulbs like ramps, trout lilies, etc.
Paper bags to carry mushrooms. Never use plastic bags-makes fungi slimy.
Basket with shoulder strap or day-pack. Notebook to record sites.
Ladder, pole pruner or shotgun to harvest tree-borne mushrooms.
Swag
Free copies of Modern Farmer and Paleo magazine provided by my editors.