Bill Beatty

Naturalist, author, and outdoor-education specialist Bill Beatty is a former interpretive naturalist for the A.B. Brooks Nature Center at Oglebay Park and instructor in outdoor adventure recreation at West Liberty University. He is a frequent lecturer in the West Virginia State Parks system.
Common Blue Violets are among the edible plants one can find growing almost anywhere in West Virginia.

Eight edible spring plants that grow wild in West Virginia

I hunt for undomesticated plants. Even though I have a substantial vegetable garden, which supplies my family with a steady supply of fresh, frozen, and canned corn, beans, onions, carrots, lettuce, spinach, potatoes, tomatoes, I still forage for wild salad plants.I can’t imagine doing otherwise. Because it’s fun, I do what one person described to … Read more