Dr. Mark "Merriwether" Vorerbruggen Wild Edible Plants Foraging Expert our Guest This Week on Rifleman Radio

Dr. Mark "Merriwether" Vorderbruggen, author, forager and  edible wild, (and some not so wild) plant expert joins our show this week on Thursday night at 7:00PM CST, to discuss foraging for edible wild plants that  grow all across the nation. I have been telling folks that they have a duty to be prepared for any kind of a rough spot in life including dealing with disasters, food shortages etc. And being able to identify edible plants that are growing wild in the woods, vacant fields, in your own backyard, is a skill we should all have.

Dr. Merriwether

When not running scientific experiments for his paying job at his lab, Dr. Merriwether can be found in the woods and fields across the nation identifying and studying edible wild plants.
Dr. Merriwether devotes a great amount of what spare time he has teaching foraging courses to the public at different locations around the state, and he has a website and a blog page dedicated to bringing this information to to the public.

Do you know that there are hundreds of plants you can make use of year around. And that some plants are supposed to be eaten at different times of the year, or that you can use plants that you might not be able to see in some parts of the year if you have marked their locations in your mind or on paper. And they do not always have to be in a forest. They can be in a parking lot, behind an apartment building, in a vacant lot in your neighborhood, almost every piece of earth not covered in concrete or mowed and manicured can be a source of edible wild plants. Even the ornamental cactus growing in a Chic Filet parking lot could be harvested an eaten in needed.

A Sunflower

    
Food prices will soon be at a level Americans have never seen before. If you can help stretch your grocery dollar by foraging for a bit of your food, you might be able to shift those saved dollars over to ammunition. Dr. Merriwether will be talking about what you can do to help put some food on your table, in all seasons,  by foraging, on the plains, in the woods, the mountains and swamps, even if you live in a city, there are still ways to supplement your diet by foraging. Be sure to listen and find out how.

To start your course of learning, read the info right from the source, go to Dr. Merriwether's Website
"Merriwether's Guide To Foraging Texas"
http://www.foragingtexas.com/

-Scout