Our monthly meeting on April 21, 2026 featured Cyrus Harp, author of Native Food Plants of Texas: An Austin Forager’s Guide Based on Indigenous Knowledge. Highly educated and resourceful, he has devoted a decade in Central Texas replicating the foraging techniques of indigenous tribes who lived in this area.
This post is inadequate to reveal important details. Cyrus Harp’s foraging methods are better seen via the Zoom meeting presentation, found on YouTube via https://bit.ly/lindheimer-Youtube.
For all you foraging aficionados, your best bet is to get the book for oodles of information and graphics
A brief overview of his slide presentation should whet your appetite for devouring the information in his book
By his exhaustive research in the use of historic methods to create & maintain a successful diet on the flora of Central Texas, Cyrus Harp hopes to inspire a deep appreciation of native Texas plants and their habitats. Then, modern-day inhabitants will be motivated to conserve the local heritage and help prevent developmental destruction of irreplaceable, precious plant life.