Learn to grow and harvest edible, native plants that provide essential ecological benefits. Instructor David Spahr shares examples from his own years of farming experience and from the educational, public, edible landscape he installed across from the town hall in Washington, Maine, in 2014, where wild bees support the pollination and are supported in turn by the many wild local natives including peaches, serviceberries, American plum, beach plum, American chestnut, shagbark hickory, highbush blueberries, raspberries, black raspberries, huckleberries, thimbleberries, strawberries, cranberries,raisin Viburnums, Sedum purpureum, violets, peppermint, garlic, day lily, Rosa rugosa, chives, rhubarb, Jerusalem artichoke, and others. Instructor David Spahr is a naturalist, photographer, and forest farmer who has collected, photographed, and eaten wild mushrooms for thirty-five years. He is a member of the Maine Mycological Association and maintains a website devoted to the subject, www.mushroom-collecting.com. He is currently writing a book on foraging.