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http://www.amazon.com/Wild-Harvest-Edible-Pacific-Northwest/dp/088839022X
I sell wild foods for a living. The best guide out there for the Pacific NW is Discovering Wild plants by Janice Schofield. Hands down.
Also Smossy, You might check around your area. My Mushroon club is having our annual Spring greens foray's starting very soon. There in Kitsap county but you may find some clubs around your area doing the same...
This looks like your closest club. http://www.southsoundmushroomclub.com/Home
Its cheap and forays are really fun! You will notice odd people in Mushroom clubs. Lol They may not have retired the "funny" shrooms. But thats not at all what these clubs are about.
Quote from: pianoman9701 on March 20, 2013, 10:36:12 AMI sell wild foods for a living. The best guide out there for the Pacific NW is Discovering Wild plants by Janice Schofield. Hands down.Do you ship?There's a group of people (Foraged and Found), who I buy huckleberries, mushrooms, truffles, fiddleheads, etc. from, but I don't often have time to consistently go to the farmer's market in Ballard to visit their stand. I was actually derided by someone recently for buying huckleberries; she accused me of taking food from black bears. I told her that I would take her criticism under consideration.
I was actually derided by someone recently for buying huckleberries; she accused me of taking food from black bears. I told her that I would take her criticism under consideration.
Quote from: Northway on March 20, 2013, 01:31:23 PMQuote from: pianoman9701 on March 20, 2013, 10:36:12 AMI sell wild foods for a living. The best guide out there for the Pacific NW is Discovering Wild plants by Janice Schofield. Hands down.Do you ship?There's a group of people (Foraged and Found), who I buy huckleberries, mushrooms, truffles, fiddleheads, etc. from, but I don't often have time to consistently go to the farmer's market in Ballard to visit their stand. I was actually derided by someone recently for buying huckleberries; she accused me of taking food from black bears. I told her that I would take her criticism under consideration.Only to restaurants
Quote from: pianoman9701 on March 20, 2013, 01:44:34 PMQuote from: Northway on March 20, 2013, 01:31:23 PMQuote from: pianoman9701 on March 20, 2013, 10:36:12 AMI sell wild foods for a living. The best guide out there for the Pacific NW is Discovering Wild plants by Janice Schofield. Hands down.Do you ship?There's a group of people (Foraged and Found), who I buy huckleberries, mushrooms, truffles, fiddleheads, etc. from, but I don't often have time to consistently go to the farmer's market in Ballard to visit their stand. I was actually derided by someone recently for buying huckleberries; she accused me of taking food from black bears. I told her that I would take her criticism under consideration.Only to restaurantsWell I suppose you can't have too much contempt for Seattle & Portland with all the forest to table/farm to table restaurants that have blown up in those cities over the last few years......Some folks will really fork over the coin at those restaurants where they proudly announce, "Everything you will eat tonight came from within 150 miles of your table".
mudman, when you get the title of the book post it up. im sure others would be interested as i am
Smossy I have a good one but I loaned it to my uncle. I cant remember its title but I will get it back and pm you. It is a soft cover, waterproof illustrated thick book which covers all grasses trees shrooms bush etc and even speaks of the Natives uses of plants. Very good written by two professors here and oregon I think. I got it from amazon for 25$ few years ago. You would like it. I like to carry it in my pack and consider it an emergency tool. We could survive with no supplies if we had this knowledge in our heads. Medicinal uses are covered too.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss/187-2000670-9920103?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=NW+wa.+plants
