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Leda Meredith
Leda Meredith is a lifelong forager (it’s her great-grandmother’s fault). She is an instructor at the New York Botanical Garden and the Brooklyn Botanic garden, specializing in edible and medicinal plants, and teaches internationally as well. Leda is the author of several books, including Northeast Foraging, The Forager’s Feast, and the 2018 release Pickling Everything. You can try out her wild food recipes, sign up for one of her foraging tours or subscribe to her newsletter at www.ledameredith.com |
Ellen Zachos
Ellen Zachos is the author of seven books including The Wildcrafted Cocktail and Backyard Foraging: 65 Familiar Plants You Didn’t Know You Could Eat. She wrote the foraging website for About.com, and shares seasonal wild recipes at www.backyardforager.com. Ellen is a regular contributor to several of the Edible magazines, and a Senior Advisor at Garden Compass, a plant identification app. She also works with RemyUSA, teaching foraging mixology workshops across the US. A former Broadway performer (cast of Les Miz), Ellen is a Harvard graduate and earned multiple certificates in horticulture and ethnobotany at the New York Botanic Garden. She taught at the NYBG for many years, and also worked there as Coordinator of the Gardening Department in Continuing Ed, before moving to Santa Fe, NM in the summer of 2014. Foraging is tougher in the desert southwest than it was in the northeast, but it's fun exploring new territory and getting to know new edible plants and mushrooms.
Ellen Zachos is the author of seven books including The Wildcrafted Cocktail and Backyard Foraging: 65 Familiar Plants You Didn’t Know You Could Eat. She wrote the foraging website for About.com, and shares seasonal wild recipes at www.backyardforager.com. Ellen is a regular contributor to several of the Edible magazines, and a Senior Advisor at Garden Compass, a plant identification app. She also works with RemyUSA, teaching foraging mixology workshops across the US. A former Broadway performer (cast of Les Miz), Ellen is a Harvard graduate and earned multiple certificates in horticulture and ethnobotany at the New York Botanic Garden. She taught at the NYBG for many years, and also worked there as Coordinator of the Gardening Department in Continuing Ed, before moving to Santa Fe, NM in the summer of 2014. Foraging is tougher in the desert southwest than it was in the northeast, but it's fun exploring new territory and getting to know new edible plants and mushrooms.
Adam Haritan
Adam Haritan is a wild food enthusiast, researcher, and forager currently residing in Western Pennsylvania. He leads several classes and workshops within a variety of habitats related to plant and mushroom identification, wild food harvesting, nutritional and medicinal benefits of wild foods, the benefits of nature connection, and more. His YouTube channel (YouTube.com/LearnYourLand) features dozens of videos pertaining to plant and mushroom identification, and his website (LearnYourLand.com) serves as a unique online community and database of naturalists and nature events. An avid proponent of wild fungi, Adam currently serves as the vice president of the Western Pennsylvania Mushroom Club.
Adam Haritan is a wild food enthusiast, researcher, and forager currently residing in Western Pennsylvania. He leads several classes and workshops within a variety of habitats related to plant and mushroom identification, wild food harvesting, nutritional and medicinal benefits of wild foods, the benefits of nature connection, and more. His YouTube channel (YouTube.com/LearnYourLand) features dozens of videos pertaining to plant and mushroom identification, and his website (LearnYourLand.com) serves as a unique online community and database of naturalists and nature events. An avid proponent of wild fungi, Adam currently serves as the vice president of the Western Pennsylvania Mushroom Club.
Nicholas WazeeGale
Nicholas WazeeGale began his career as a nature enthusiast as “the bug kid” and while still loving insects moved into fascination with all aspects of the Natural Realm. Time spent as a young adult in wilderness skills programs and experiences brought him into more personal and meaningful relationship with this world, particularly with the plants that provided him food and medicine. Foraging has been an integral part of his life since then, nourishing not only his physical self and family, but his connection with the Earth and his need to share the natural world with the human world. He has run outdoor programming in foraging and other wilderness skills for over 10 years at the Kickapoo Valley Reserve, Driftless Folk School, and independently. He lives with his wife and family in the wooded Kickapoo Valley of Wisconsin and spends his days as a craftsperson, hunting, gathering (and processing) wild food, running outdoor programs for children and adults, and enjoying all aspects of country life.
Nicholas WazeeGale began his career as a nature enthusiast as “the bug kid” and while still loving insects moved into fascination with all aspects of the Natural Realm. Time spent as a young adult in wilderness skills programs and experiences brought him into more personal and meaningful relationship with this world, particularly with the plants that provided him food and medicine. Foraging has been an integral part of his life since then, nourishing not only his physical self and family, but his connection with the Earth and his need to share the natural world with the human world. He has run outdoor programming in foraging and other wilderness skills for over 10 years at the Kickapoo Valley Reserve, Driftless Folk School, and independently. He lives with his wife and family in the wooded Kickapoo Valley of Wisconsin and spends his days as a craftsperson, hunting, gathering (and processing) wild food, running outdoor programs for children and adults, and enjoying all aspects of country life.
Lisa Rose
Lisa Rose is an herbalist, forager, urban farmer, and author. With a background in anthropology and a professional focus on community health, she has gathered her food, farming, and wild plant knowledge from many people and places along a very delicious journey. Beyond the Great Lakes, Lisa Rose’s interest in ethnobotany and herbal medicine has taken her across the United States and into the Yucatan, mainland Mexico, Nicaragua, and Brazil to study plants, people, health, and their connection to place. When she is not in her own gardens or kitchen, Lisa can be found in the fields and forests, leading foraging plant walks and teaching classes on edible and medicinal wild plants.
Lisa Rose is an herbalist, forager, urban farmer, and author. With a background in anthropology and a professional focus on community health, she has gathered her food, farming, and wild plant knowledge from many people and places along a very delicious journey. Beyond the Great Lakes, Lisa Rose’s interest in ethnobotany and herbal medicine has taken her across the United States and into the Yucatan, mainland Mexico, Nicaragua, and Brazil to study plants, people, health, and their connection to place. When she is not in her own gardens or kitchen, Lisa can be found in the fields and forests, leading foraging plant walks and teaching classes on edible and medicinal wild plants.
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Erica M. Davis
Erica Marciniec Davis is an experienced forager and teacher of wild food plants in the diverse elevation zones of the Rocky Mountain region. Newly married, she loves to experiment on her husband with wild food cookery, and shares her research and stories about wild food adventures at her blog, www.wildfoodgirl.com. Previously, she published a well-loved monthly magazine of experience-based edible plant accounts, short stories, and recipes called Wild Edible Notebook. Erica teaches a course on local edible, medicinal, and toolcraft plants at Colorado Mountain College in Breckenridge, and conducts plant walks around the state. She holds a bachelor’s degree in archaeology, an elementary school teaching credential, and a master’s degree in technology education. She also works as a freelance writer and snowboard trainer. Erica is currently working on her first book about edible wild plants in the Mountain West. |
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