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Wild Edible Notebook—October Release!

October 15, 2011 Erica M. Davis 10 Comments

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.

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EDITED 10.7.13 to reflect the new download procedures.

 

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Comments

  1. Sarah says

    November 14, 2011 at 9:44 pm

    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?

  2. joris van den Helm says

    November 15, 2011 at 4:38 pm

    I want to join your wild edible notebook.

    Thanks a lot.
    Joris

  3. Wild Food Girl says

    November 17, 2011 at 8:26 pm

    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!

  4. Wild Food Girl says

    November 17, 2011 at 8:27 pm

    Hi Joris, Awesome! So glad! Fill out the form at the bottom of the page to join:)

  5. Katherine says

    November 30, 2011 at 7:54 pm

    Looks interesting, living in the Ozarks, there are a plethera of oaks, which are edible, which are not?

  6. Wild Food Girl says

    December 1, 2011 at 7:09 am

    @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.

  7. Melissa says

    December 7, 2011 at 9:21 am

    I am always interested in learning how to find and use edible wild food…Thanks for all the info.

  8. Laura Salisbury says

    November 2, 2013 at 9:55 pm

    I’m interested to see whether you asked your mother to save the husks for you–aren’t they valuable medicinally?

  9. Wild Food Girl says

    November 3, 2013 at 5:32 am

    Hi Laura, Are you talking about the black walnut husks? She didn’t, but I got my own black walnuts shortly after that and tinctured the hulls. Yes, they have medicinal value that I just beginning to learn about myself. Sincerely-e

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