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November 2022: Foraging and finding food in the wild

For November 2022, our Nature Book Club members explored books themed around foraging and finding food in the wild! The following is the book list presented during the November club:

• Ancestral Appetites: Food in Prehistory. By Kristen J. Gremillion.
• Northeast Foraging: 120 Wild and Flavorful Edibles from Beach Plums to Wineberries. By Leda Meredith.
• Mushrooming: The Joy of the Quiet Hunt - An Illustrated Guide to the Fascinating, the Delicious, the Deadly and the Strange. By Diane Borsato, illustrations by Kelsey Oseid.
• The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. By Michael Pollan.
• Some Useful Wild Plants: A Foraging Guide to Food and Medicine from Nature. By Dan Jason.
• Edible and Medicinal Plants of Canada. By Andy MacKinnon (Contributor), Linda Kershaw, John Thor Arnason.

Other books and resources that were mentioned during book club this month:

• Stalking the Wild Asparagus. By Euell Gibbons.
• The Skillful Forager. By Leda Meredith.
• The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People. By Neil Shubin.
• Lost Feast. By Lenore Newman.
• VIDEO: Diane Borsato and Georgiana Uhlyarik: In Conversation. A talk about the outdoor school at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
• The Island of Sea Women. By Lisa See (2019).
• VIDEO: Robin Kimmerer - Mishkos Kenomagwen: The Teachings of Grass | Bioneers

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