Re: foraging/wild food

**"* m* p* <m*@dargan.com>**

Dear Jo Ellen,

I searched my bookshelves for tomes on foraging and found eight!  Many are
about the Cherokee indians and their native harvests of *souchan* ( their
term for species of Echinaces lancinata for cleansing and sweet greens),
dandelions, elderflower, elderberries and a host more. The are all small
independent press runs I've purchased over time at Oconoluftee Rural Farm
and Heritage Center in Cherokee NC ( The Great Smoky Mountain National Park
Visitor Center) http://www.smokiesstore.org/browse.cfm/2,11.html This link
only offers mountaineer foods, which are based in part on Cherokee
foraging, however try also The Museum of the Cherokee in Cherokee (
excellent museum). I see they have one called Cherokee Plants that I do not
have, but a call to each of these places will reap you great rewards.

When I return to Cashiers, NC over Christmas, I can give you the names of
my volumes..left in a hurry yesterday to return to work. Good luck in your
search. I had a bottle of my sparkling elderflower wine this weekend, as
well as red muscadine and blackberry...these wines are delicious, fragrant
and somewhat easy to make/

Happy Holidays, Mary Palmer

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Kirk R. Brown <kirk@gardendesigninc.com>wrote:

> I may be too old and the information may be out of date but my wildly
> romantic fancies recall that Euell Theophilus Gibbons wrote much about wild
> food foraging.  He wrote a book about two weeks that a group spent on an
> island in Maine subsisting entirely on what they foraged.  He finished his
> long and productive life in Sunbury PA.  "Stalking the Good Life" was all
> about healthful, nutritious eating from nature.
>
> But it was the 70's and like a lot of things that I vaguely recall from
> that
> time, it's really only the colors that have stayed bright and vivid.  He
> was
> a bright and vivid image in my college life.
>
> His middle name actually means "Friend of God" and it is to whom the Gospel
> of Luke is addressed.  More arcana from my world to yours.
>
> Kirk
>
>
> Does anyone know of a book about foraging for wild food in the Eastern
> United States? Can find some for the west, but not for the east. Thank you.
>
> jems
>
>
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