Wild Food Plants of Indiana & Adjacent States
Alan McPherson was born and raised in north central Indiana. He learned about medicinal and wild food plants from his pharmacist grandfather and country savvy grandmother. Exploring the countryside and enjoying what nature had to offer during the warm days of summer youth was a way of life. During graduate school, his motivation to co author Wild Foods of Indiana was inspired by Euell Gibbons, renowned author of Stalking the Wild Asparagus, who, at one time, lived in Indiana near Greenfield, Hancock County. One of McPherson's favorite outdoor pastimes is botanizing the cultivated and wild places and searching for edible wild plants. Sue A. Clark is also a native Hoosier from east central Indiana. She learned how to cook from her country grandmother and by her own experimentation. Growing up, she earned blue ribbon awards with her cooking skills. After graduating from college, she pursued the culinary arts and adventured in the plant kingdom. Clark's love of cooking and the outdoors, combined to create this outstanding regional wild food guidebook.