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A longtime contributor to Field and Stream, Charge Heavey knew greater than a little about hunting and sportfishing when he embarked on an ambitious project a couple of years ago to observe how far he could easily get eating wild. But Heavey recognized next to nothing about gardening or foraging, and he lives in northern Virginia, near Washington, D.C. The rural wilds, this is not. Is it any shock that his delightful triumphs were equaled by his entertaining misadventures? With the ideal medication dosage of self-deprecation, Heavey explains to the story of his goal, starting locally and moving out following that. He digs up the ground behind his house and plants an elaborate garden only to be driven to squirrel murder (and a cover-up). He activities abundance mania in the perch operate on the Potomac, and again when he places perfect wild mushrooms in Arlington National Cemetery. He forages for wild watercress, berries, and pawpaws within the beltway, and hunts crayfish in Louisiana and caribou on the Alaskan tundra. With educators which include Paula, a grizzled local so popular among DC fishers that she's been called the Pablo Escobar of herring; Hue, a Bronze Celebrity ex-military survival instructor and foraging expert; Michelle, a single mother unself-consciously devoted to eating local, and Jody, a weathered Cajun fisherman, Charge discovers how to capture and make frogs, prepare cattail pancakes, make salads out of garden weeds and bake a pie with foraged wild cherries. To the pleasure of his readers and to his young daughter's despair, Heavey also suffers serious blood loss, humiliation, and foods that are best described as edible. Entertaining and informative, this is Charge Heavey at his best...and most detrimental.
