Here is the link to the article that mentions our upcoming book:

TIME MAGAZINE article

The Bay Area Forager

Your Guide to Edible Wild Plants of the San Francisco Bay Area

by Kevin Feinstein and Mia Andler (October 15, 2011)

Paperback

over 50 plants found in the Bay Area (many found all over the world)

60+ color photographs

over 50 recipes and recipe ideas

each chapter has sections on sustainable techniques

personal stories of Mia and Kevin

$24.95

“In a world focused on serious issues such as climate change and the redesign of energy, food, and human shelter systems… Mia and Kevin’s work shines as a functional and joyful solution to the seemingly massive scale of the human footprint. eating the plants that are available, and growing wild in your neighborhood and region is more than a symbolic gesture towards honoring ecology… it returns you to the ecological system as a functioning member, like any other bird, bug, and mammal.”
—Rebecca Burgess, educator and author of Harvesting Color-How to Find Plants and Make Natural Dyes

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The Bay Area Forager

Your Guide to Edible Wild Plants of the San Francisco Bay Area

by Kevin Feinstein and Mia Andler (October 15, 2011)

Paperback

over 50 plants found in the Bay Area (many found all over the world)

60+ color photographs

over 50 recipes and recipe ideas

each chapter has sections on sustainable techniques

personal stories of Mia and Kevin

$24.95

“In a world focused on serious issues such as climate change and the redesign of energy, food, and human shelter systems… Mia and Kevin’s work shines as a functional and joyful solution to the seemingly massive scale of the human footprint. eating the plants that are available, and growing wild in your neighborhood and region is more than a symbolic gesture towards honoring ecology… it returns you to the ecological system as a functioning member, like any other bird, bug, and mammal.”
—Rebecca Burgess, educator and author of Harvesting Color-How to Find Plants and Make Natural Dyes

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After a long wait in setting the final tweaks for the printing of the physical book, due to be out by December, the E-book is now available!

The Bay Area Forager

Your Guide to Edible Wild Plants of the San Francisco Bay Area

by Kevin Feinstein and Mia Andler (October 15, 2011)

Electronic Version

No Paper Waste

Can read on computer or mobile device

PDF Format easy to use

$24.99

$14.99

“In a world focused on serious issues such as climate change and the redesign of energy, food, and human shelter systems… Mia and Kevin’s work shines as a functional and joyful solution to the seemingly massive scale of the human footprint. eating the plants that are available, and growing wild in your neighborhood and region is more than a symbolic gesture towards honoring ecology… it returns you to the ecological system as a functioning member, like any other bird, bug, and mammal.”
—Rebecca Burgess, educator and author of Harvesting Color-How to Find Plants and Make Natural Dyes

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It appears that the use of land is increasingly less available to the vast majority of the population.   How about “Occupy State Parks”?

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My Iphone app, created in collaboration with Mia Andler and Wallpers, inc, was formerly called “Edible Wild Plants.”   Now, the name has been changed to “Bay Area Forager” and can be purchased through Apple.

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I’d like to write an article about the very meaning of the title that you probably inferred — what happens when foraging becomes something negative.  However, for now, I’m going to just talk about the abundance nature is currently providing.  Stuff you should go out and get right now.  They’re either rotting in abundance or they’re things you might have to wait another year to eat.  As Napoleon Dynamite once said, “Eat the food!”.

Wild Edibles now in abundance (Late August, 2011):

• elderberries
• blackberries
• manzanita berries
• black walnuts
• nettles (in shady places)
• wild radish pods (only near coast)
• mallow cheesewheels (only near coast)
• new zealand spinach (ony near coast)
• feral pears
• pepperweed

Growing in my GARDEN currently ready for eating:

• Autumnberries/ Autumn Olives (this is the most productive food plant I have ever grown.)
• Aronia (ludicrously high in antioxidants and I learned a trick to eating them from a kid)
• cucumbers
• grapes
• sweet corn
• cherry and currant tomatoes
• mallow leaves
• red russian kale
• feral chard
• pumpkins and squash
• amaranth seeds
• purslane seeds
• green beans
• salsify
• pears
• apples
• stinging nettles
• aloe vera
• mint

I know I’m forgetting some.

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Instead of writing posts, I have been co-authoring a book with Mia Andler.    It is in its final stages of publication and is now available for pre-order!

Shipping date:  August 31

– over 50 plants found in the Bay Area (many found all over the world)

– 60+ color photographs

– each chapter has sections on sustainable techniques

– over 50 recipes and recipe ideas

– personal stories of Mia and Kevin

– practical guide for the forager

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Mia, myself, Iso and Kirk were all people I know that were recently on the Travel Channel’s “The Wild Within” San Francisco episode.   Mia, after much effort during the second showing was able to watch it.   Kirk watched it at a bar with no sound.  Iso and I have yet to see it at all!   None of us have TV!  And let’s face it, what’s the real reason we didn’t watch it?   Simply  because it’s not made available on the internet. 

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