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Forage or Grow Your Own: Three Links

November 7, 2009Leave a comment

Forage For Mushrooms
New Hampshire Mushroom Guide
By Devin Starlanyl
Posted by the Chesterfield Conservation Commission

Let’s face it, treasure hunting is fun. There is nothing I know that resembles treasure hunting as much as foraging for wild mushrooms.

*Another great resources for foragers: The Forager’s Wild Food and Mushroom Forum.

Grow Your Own Mushrooms
By Barbara Pleasant
Posted at Mother Earth News

Two of the best reasons to garden are to grow things you would otherwise have to pay too dearly for at the supermarket and to grow great-tasting things you cannot buy at any price. Mushrooms often fill both bills.

Food Forests Across America!

April 11, 2009April 12, 2009Leave a comment

One of my permaculture teachers was recently interviewed on this radio program. You can listen to it here: Food Forests Across America.

What I liked most was their visionary description of a forest garden – not reduced to its definition – but as a guided journey:

“Imagine a forest where every single tree is dripping with fresh fruits and ripening nuts. Every shrub is packed with delicious berries, and every other plant is a medicinal herb, culinary spice, or beautiful edible flower. Tubers and root crops are abundant underfoot, gourmet mushroom logs sprout in the shade, and hardy kiwi vines climb back up through the layers of this multi-functional forest of food.”