An excellent source for ideas is Edible Forest Gardens: The Ecology and Design of Home Scale Food Forests, a website based on the two-volume set, “Edible Forest Gardens” by David Jacke ...

Felder Rushing is a Mississippi author, columnist, and host of the “Gestalt Gardener” on MPB Think Radio. Email gardening questions to [email protected].

This plant, which shows up even earlier than dandelions, is perhaps the earliest edible of all, Mr. Rosenbaum said. He harvests leaves from the basal rosette when it’s about two to four inches high.

The botanist, author and plant taxonomist presents a workshop on identifying edible wild plants Sunday, July 9, at Longue Vue House and Gardens (7 Bamboo Road; $5 for nonmembers), at 6 p.m.

NO MATTER THE weather, you can get a jump on spring by growing your own tender greens indoors. You don’t have to have a yard — or even a green thumb — to grow edible plants right in your own ...