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  • Hen of the Woods & Other Wild Foods and Medicines

  • A Guided Tour Including Folklore
  • By: Steve Brill
  • Narrated by: Steve Brill, Susan Boyce
  • Length: 2 hrs and 37 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (129 ratings)

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Hen of the Woods & Other Wild Foods and Medicines

By: Steve Brill
Narrated by: Steve Brill, Susan Boyce
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A living legend, “Wildman” Steve Brill leads us on a lively and entertaining tour through the Northeastern United States as he shares tips on foraging in densely populated areas like New York’s Central Park and rural areas throughout New England. We follow the seasons: wild ramps in the spring, the first mushrooms of summer, and in autumn, wild edible berries in Central Park—more than you’ll find at your local supermarket!—plus roots and nuts you can keep all winter long.

Steve provides the historical background of these plants and their various uses by American Indians and early settlers, plus their current medicinal and culinary uses today. The Wildman will teach the home cook at any level how to use these foraged foods in everyday meals, whether sprinkled on a salad or baked into a delicious dessert. And perhaps most importantly, you’ll never pay $7.99 for cherries again once you learn to locate them in the wild to pick yourself. Steve Brill has lead thousands of tours and offers tips on how to include the entire family on a foraging tour of your own so you can teach your children about conservation and the environs around them.

For anyone who has a curiosity about the outdoors or a fondness for food, this original audio makes an ideal companion.

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Meh

Repeated itself a lot. Sometimes difficult to understand the narrator as the book is largely recordings from his foraging tours. Not particularly useful unless you know very little about perennials and tree foods.

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Hilarious and relaxing and inspiring

The only improvement I could suggest for this book would be a short glossary of botanical terms, such as those used to describe the shape of leaves. Other than that, I truly enjoyed this book. I learned a lot, laughed a lot, and would definitely book a foraging tour with the author if I got the chance.

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Enjoyed it! Very entertaining.

Not the best book in audio form. I truly enjoyed the humor in it though.

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Good Stuff

Loved this guys origin story and this reminded me there's so much more edible stuff out there than just mushrooms as good as they are. Thank you for the inspiration 🙏

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Super Good!

The Wildman is so passionate about this is inspiring! The amount of knowledge! And the jokes so good!

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*humor included

I like the personal stories and added humor of the author. I didn’t think the book was organized very well. I think this book is good for those looking to begin foraging.

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needs pictures.

I was thinking the entire time this should have pictures. probably have a hard time identifying plants without seeing whats being described.

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Quick Entertaining Primer on Wild Plants.

Brill’s eccentric quirky New York sense of humor makes this dry subject matter an interesting entertaining listen. Someone could get through in an afternoon. And it’s free with premium membership!

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Fun book!

It’s short but very interesting and informative. The book flows well and great speaking voice! :)

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Funny to listen while gardening.

As I was pulling weeds I often wondered, is this edible, what about this? I do have several of the "weeds" that Steve mentioned in my yard and some in abundance. I guess I'll have to try them. Maybe even grow them instead of other vegetables especially since they just grow without much need for anything from me.

One thing that would have been nice was a PDF that illustrates and/or listed the plants he was describing in his story.
Yes I know there is an app, that was made very clear.

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