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The Wild Food Adventurer ™ Newsletter Includes:
A North American Wild Foods Focus, Gathering & Preparation Techniques, Wild Gourmet Garden Vegetables, Food Plants of Native Americans, Feature Articles on Wild Foods, Reviews of Books & Videos, Edible Plant Identification, Nutrition of Wild Foods, Festival Announcements, Wilderness Survival, Sustainable Living, Sea Shore Edibles, Poisonous Plants, Past Events Calendars, Book Reviews, Sea Vegetables, and more.

Wild Food Adventures ™ is not, at this time, producing "new" issues - only back issues are available:
The information in these back issues is valuable, the kind of depth you will rarely find elsewhere, and never goes out of date. Even the event calendars have contact information to discover and investigate instructors, organizations, and dates for new and upcoming events.

The Future of the Wild Food Adventurer ™ Newsletter:
This may be a temporary pause in publication, but this may be it after 11 years. Unless we get staff to start it up again, we are moving on to other wild food endeavors. Unfortunately, there are no other newsletters in publication today that are strictly devoted to edible wild plants.

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There are 35 issues in all, published over 11 years (1996-2006). Vol 9.4 is a special issue, add $1 (3+1) for that issue.
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Use the list below to find topics and their back issues.
This list is updated quarterly. Beginning in 2003, there are less than 4 issues per year.
Key to Code Below: 1(4): 3, 1996 = Volume 1, No 4, Page 3, Year 1996
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Volume 1, 1996 (1.1 - 1.4)

Cattails... Easy to Harvest, Fun to Eat. 1(1): 1, 1996.
Dandelions: The Good, The Bad, And the Ugly. 1(1): 1, 1996.
Wild Spinach: Delicious, Nutritious, and Abundant. 1(2): 1, 1996.
Edible Wild Plants Defined... This May Save Your Life. 1(2): 3, 1996.
Modern Gathering Etiquette: Don't be a Wild Food Marauder. 1(2): 3, 1996.
Cattail Spikes: Pollen Means Protein. 1(2): 1, 1996.
Cattails Store Food For Winter. 1(3): 1, 1996.
Rose Hips and Vitamin C. 1(3): 1, 1996.
Wapato, Indian Potato. 1(4): 1, 1996..
Wild Gourmet Garden Vegetables. 1(4): 1, 1996.

Volume 2, 1997 (2.1 - 2.4)

Fiddleheads from Lady Fern. 2(1): 1, 1997
Skunk Cabbage... Lives Up to Its Name. 2(1): 1, 1997.
Wild Edibles Abound at U-Pick Farms. 2(2): 1, 1997.
Oregon Grape: Not for the Faint of Taste. 2(2): 1, 1997.
Wakas, Indian Popcorn. 2(3): 1, 1997.
Wild Lettuce, a Prickly Sight. 2(3): 1, 1997.
Bull Thistle. 2(4): 1, 1997.
Chickweed - It's the Tops . 2(4): 1, 1997.
Personal Risk & Enlightenment . 2(4): 5, 1997.

Volume 3, 1998 (3.1 - 3.4)

Field Death Camas: History and Identification. 3(1): 1, 1998.
Edible Blue Camas: History and Identification. 3(1): 1, 1998.
Edible Blue Camas: Preparation Old and New. 3(2): 1, 1998.
Douglas Fir Chewing Gum: A Sappy Experience. 3(2): 11, 1998.
Amaranth - Staple Food Source for Modern Foragers. 3(2): 1, 1998.
Death Camas Toxicity. 3(2): 10, 1998.
Sassafras - Extraordinarily Flavorful Carcinogen. 3(3): 1, 1998.
Clamming for Cockles. 3(3): 1, 1998.
Cockles in Captivity. 3(4): 1, 1998.
Euell Gibbons - The Father of Modern Wild Foods. 3(4): 1, 1998.

Volume 4, 1999 (4.1 - 4.4)

Wild Food Roundtable. 4(1): 1, 1999.
Making Flour from Cattail's Starch Filled Rhizomes. 4(1): 1, 1999.
Nettles: Naughty & Nice. 4(2): 1, 1999.
Poison Ivy, Poison Oak. 4(2): 1, 1999.
Poison Sumac. 4(3): 10, 1999.
Acorn Processing: The Proof is in the Pudding. 4(3): 1, 1999.
Itch Relief from Poison Ivy, Poison Oak, Poison Sumac. 4(3): 10, 1999.
Mistaking Poison Hemlock for Wild Carrot. 4(4): 1, 1999.
Poison Hemlock's Deadly Flavor. 4(4): 8, 1999.
Wild Carrot Flavor & Texture. 4(4): 1, 1999.

Volume 5, 2000 (5.1 - 5.4)

Wild Carrot and Poison Hemlock in Flower. 5(1): 1, 2000.
Wild Mustard - Fine Greens Almost All Year Long. 5(1): 1, 2000.
Y2K Gone, Wild Foods Persist. 5(1): 2, 2000.
Wild Foods - Does Anybody Sell This Stuff??!. 5(2): 10, 2000.
Tawny Day Lily - Unpredictably Tainted Fare. 5(2): 1, 2000.
Groundnut - Pearls on a String. 5(2): 1, 2000.
Adventures in West Virginia. 5(3): 4, 2000.
Juneberries, and Thimbleberries, and Huckleberries: Oh My! 5(3): 1, 2000.
Successful Approaches to Foraging. 5(3): 1, 2000.
Mining for Chanterelles. 5(4): 1, 2000.
Way Down Yonder in the Pawpaw Patch (Part 1). 5(4): 1, 2000.

Volume 6, 2001 (6.1 - 6.4)

Miners Lettuce. 6(1): 1, 2001.
Paw Paw Pudding & Custard. 6(1): 1, 2001.
Primitive Technology Rendezvous Teach Wild Foods. 6(1): 3, 2001.
Feasting My Way Through the 26th Annual North Carolina Wild Foods Weekend. 6(2): 1, 2001
Hairy Nightshade, Wild Spinach, & Green Amaranth. 6(2): 4, 2001.
Developing Wild Food Recipes. 6(3): 4, 2001.
Oxalates Schmokulates. 6(3): 1, 2001.
Sheep Sorrel - Finding the Good Stuff. 6(3): 1, 2001.
Processing and Using Sheep Sorrel. 6(4): 1, 2001.
Tapping Maple Trees. 6(4): 1, 2001.

Volume 7, 2002 (7.1 - 7.4)

Dandelion Bitterness - Differing Views (Part 1). 7(1): 4, 2002.
Forage for Florage and Foliage of Borage. 7(1): 1, 2002.
Over Tapping Maple Trees. 7(1): 11, 2002.
Common Mallows - Overlooked & Underutilized. 7(2): 1, 2002.
Original Marshmallow. 7(2): 1, 2002.
Western Blue Elderberries. 7(3): 1, 2002.
Mallow's Mumbo Gumbo. 7(3): 1, 2002.
Horse Chestnuts and Buckeyes. 7(4): 1, 2002.
Report From The First Annual GingerRoot Rendezvous. 7(4): 4, 2002.
Sweet Chestnuts. 7(4): 1, 2002.

Volume 8, 2003 (8.1 - 8.3)

Cow Parsnips. 8(1): 1, 2003
Mayapple - A Lemon Banana Guava?. 8(1): 1, 2003
Photosensitizing Agents, Cephalalgia, & Looks Can Kill. 8(1): 4, 2003
Green Mallowmallow - Something Unconventional. 8(2): 1, 2003
Report From The First Annual Native Shores Rendezvous. 8(2): 1, 2003
2004 Wild Food Events. 8(2): 2, 2003
2004 Primitive Skills Events. 8(2): 3, 2003
A Wild Food Investigation: Cow Parsnips - A Substitute for Salt?. 8(2): 3, 2003
Red Sumacs - Gathering, Processing, & Storage Tips. 8(3): 1, 2003
Wild Thanksgiving Salad - A Christmas Story?. 8(3): 1, 2003
Wild Vegetarian Cookbook - A Book Review. 8(3): 6, 2003
Resources of The Southern Fields & Forests - A Book Review. 8(3): 10, 2003

Note: Issues 8.4 - 9.3 Do Not Exist

 

Volume 9, 2004 (9.4)

Wild Sweet Pea - A Few of My Favorite Things. 9(4): 1, 2004
Lathyrism - What's All the Fuss About. 9(4): 1, 2004
Diet & Health are Protective Against Lathyrism. 9(4): 14, 2004

Volume 10, 2005 (10.1 - 10.2)

Considerations on the Ideal Cattail Pollen Collector. 10(1): 1, 2005.
Sword Fern - An Abundant Edible? 10(1): 1, 2005.
Anti-Nutrients in Plants. 10(1): 3, 2005.
Sword Fern Molasses Cookies. 10(1): 4, 2005.
Mallow Whites, Egg Whites, and Mallow Meringue. 10(2): 1, 2005.
Mallowmallow Takes on the Marshmallow. 10(2): 1, 2005.
Writing from Experience vs Paraphrasing. 10(2): 3, 2005.
Wild Food Events in North America. 10(2): 3, 2005.
Wild Huckleberry Mallow Meringue Pie. 10(2): 7, 2005.

Note: Issues 10.3 - 10.4 Do Not Exist

Volume 11, 2006 (11.1)(Last issue produced)

Cattail - A Potential Goldmine. 11(1): 1, 2006
Living the Pre-History Native American Food gathering Life. 11(1): 1, 2006
Annual Wild Food Events Worth Attending in North America. 11(1): 3, 2006
Sword Fern - Edible or Not? 11(1): 4, 2006