If you’ve always longed to be able to stroll into the woods or meadow and pluck something delicious from the edible wild landscape, come listen to Tom Seymour, author of Wild Plants of Maine: A Useful Guide. He’s speaking Friday, September 30 about his many years of experience in collecting plants from local fields and forests and how to store and cook the wild produce. Seymour will be at Thornton Oaks, 25 Thornton Way, Brunswick, at 2 p.m.
Tom Seymour and a basket of black trumpets and chanterelles, both choice wild mushrooms.
In addition to a talk and question-and-answer time, Seymour will prepare and offer taste testing of freshly gathered wild plants. Not sure about that mushroom in your yard? Perhaps Seymour can ID it for you from a photo.
Seymour is a columnist for The Maine Sportsman Magazine, Maine Food and Lifestyle and Fisherman’s Voice. He has authored several books about hiking, fishing, and harvesting wild foods and leads nature walks in coastal Maine. Copies of his book will be available for sale.