Halfway through October I am once again honored to present the Wild Edible Notebook, my journal-style tale of select plants. This fifth issue is about acorns. It includes an entry about my own experience processing and preparing a bounty of Colorado acorns (yes, we have acorns) as well as a Wisconsin acorn neophyte’s adventures with her back yard bur oak. The accounts feature interviews with none other than wild food guru, Samuel Thayer. There are also reviews of Thayer’s two books, Nature’s Garden (2010) and The Forager’s Harvest (2006) as well as Hank Shaw’s recently-released book, Hunt, Gather, Cook (2011). As you can see from the cover at right, I went hogwild with InDesign’s pencil tool for this issue.
As with all other Wild Edible Notebooks, if you want to read it, you have to download it—and that means joining the list if you haven’t already.
How to Join the List
If you go through the process to join the list you will receive one (at most two) emails from me a month. You can unsubscribe whenever you want. To join, scroll to the bottom of this page and fill in your info. You’ll receive an email asking you to click on a confirmation link, and after doing that, you’ll get another email with the download link for the October issue of the Wild Edible Notebook—in your choice of either a handy print-and-fold booklet or a file you can breeze through onscreen or print out one-sided.
Calling Advertisers
Take advantage of free advertising via the Wild Edible Notebook. This offer is open to both established purveyors of wild food products/equipment as well as individuals with classified ads. These will be free of charge until further notice, so please, send them my way and I’ll try to get you in the next issue.
NOTE: I took the notebooks down, made a change, and re-uploaded them five minutes ago. There was a part that was supposed to be funny but maybe wasn’t worded the best. This has now been changed, as of 5:15 p.m. Thanks. -e
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I can’t tell you how excited I am to find your website & sign up for your notebooks. I’m really looking forward to digging into your posts. Yay! How would I go about getting past releases of your notebooks?
I want to join your wild edible notebook.
Thanks a lot.
Joris
Hi Sarah, Sorry for the delayed response but I blame nature for sending Alaska’s blizzardcane this way and putting us out of power for a few… If you sign up for the notebook, you get access to all of them from a common download page. Cheers!
Hi Joris, Awesome! So glad! Fill out the form at the bottom of the page to join:)
Looks interesting, living in the Ozarks, there are a plethera of oaks, which are edible, which are not?
@Katherine: All of ‘em! But keep in mind you have to leach the tannins out of them so it’s a little bit of a process. I recount how I do it in my entry, Zen & the Art of Acorn Processing. Or see Sam Thayer’s book, Nature’s Garden, for all the gory details on acorn collecting & processing as well as descriptions of the major types of oaks and their acorns’ characteristics.
I am always interested in learning how to find and use edible wild food…Thanks for all the info.