RE: Known as "White Man's Boot" - Day 253 - Haiku - for @naturalmedicine's Contest, My Take on Plantain
I'm mostly self-taught, @carolkean, though I remember lots of nature walks with my grandmother during camping trips in the Rockies as a kid, and I've gone on several more since moving to Tennessee.
My initial period of deep dive studying about herbs was while I was in Luxembourg, at age 29.
I was there to do legal research, but a couple of times while walking in the woods I pointed out local medicinal plants, so in addition to all the legal casework, the banker I was working for started bringing me book on European herbs in English.
I've amassed a small collection of good herbal books over the years, been given a couple and inherited others, but although I'm an excellent researcher, I still consider myself to be pretty much a neophyte.
And I'm definitely a neophyte when it comes to medicinal and edible mushrooms and fungi. Too many poisonous lookalikes out there. There are only a couple of varieties that I'll bring home without having a mushroom identification book along.
There is just soooo much to know!
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