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. He can be reached at wild-nat@msn.com.
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 … Read more