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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