{"id":1960,"date":"2010-06-14T09:56:49","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T14:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1960"},"modified":"2010-06-14T09:56:49","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T14:56:49","slug":"euell-gibbons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1960","title":{"rendered":"Euell Gibbons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/euell-gibbons.jpg' title='euell-gibbons.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/euell-gibbons.jpg' alt='euell-gibbons.jpg' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>My photo of Euell Gibbons, foraging on a North Carolina strawberry farm around 1973. Seeing an opportunity to add a nice detail to the photo, I remember sprinting up from behind Mr. Gibbons to get a photo with the ducks in the background.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Most of us who are interested in simple living and growing food also are interested in foraging. Here at the abbey, I have a growing collection of books on foraging. One classic that belongs in everyone&#8217;s library is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Euell_Gibbons\">Euell Gibbons<\/a>&#8216; <em>Stalking the Wild Asparagus<\/em>. This book was first published in 1962. It became a best seller and has remained in print all these years.<\/p>\n<p>It was my good luck to get to go foraging with Euell Gibbons many years ago. He was in North Carolina at the time, and a friend of mine, a reporter, was writing a newspaper story about him. She invited me along to take pictures. After some early morning foraging on a winter day, we cooked breakfast using what we&#8217;d gathered.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/stalking-asparagus-1.JPG' title='stalking-asparagus-1.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/stalking-asparagus-1.JPG' alt='stalking-asparagus-1.JPG' \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My photo of Euell Gibbons, foraging on a North Carolina strawberry farm around 1973. Seeing an opportunity to add a nice detail to the photo, I remember sprinting up from behind Mr. Gibbons to get a photo with the ducks in the background. Most of us who are interested in simple living and growing food &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1960\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Euell Gibbons&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-sustainable-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}