The arrival of a copy of Tiffany Francis-Baker’s new book “The Dark Skies of Britain & Ireland” in my post box this past week reminded me that I have been neglectful of publishing any notice of another very useful book she wrote that saw publication this past May: her Bloomsbury Concise Foraging Guide.
Anyone interested in becoming involved with wild mushrooms had better have themselves a good field guide. For those in the Pennsylvania and Mid-Atlantic region, such a guide has long been Bill Russell’s 2006 book “Field Guide to Wild Mushrooms of Pennsylvania and the Mid-Atlantic,” part of the Keystone Books series from Penn State University Press.
Back in 1971, Dan Jason published “Some Useful Wild Plants; A Foraging Guide to Food and Medicine From Nature,” a book that eventually sold over 30,000 copies and became one of the best known books on foraging for wild plants in Canada and the northern United States.