List of Current/Past Sponsoring Organizations and locations of
Russ Cohen's Edible Wild Plant Walks/Courses/Slide Shows:


1794 Meetinghouse (New Salem, MA)
Allston-Brighton Green Space Advocates (Brighton, MA)
American Youth Hostels (various locations)
Andover Department of Community Services (Andover, MA)
Andover Village Improvment Society (Andover, MA)
Androscoggin Land Trust (Bethel, Dixfield, Turner, Lisbon Falls and Brunswick, ME)
Appalachian Mountain Club:
Berkshire Chapter (Northampton, MA)
Boston Chapter (various locations)
Connecticut Chapter (Sharon, CT)
Mount Greylock, MA
Narragansett Chapter (Providence, RI)
Pinkham Notch, NH
Worcester Chapter (various locations)
Arlington Earth Month (Lexington, MA)
Arlington Land Trust (Arlington, MA)
Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University (various locations)
Association for the Preservation of Cape Cod (Falmouth, MA)
Audubon Society of New Hampshire, Seacoast Chapter (Rye, NH)
Ausbon Sargent Land Trust (New London, NH)
Bennett Brook Watershed Association (Northfield, MA)
Bidwell House Museum (Monterey, MA)
Blackstone River Watershed Association (various locations)
Blackstone River Watershed Council (Lincoln, RI)
Blue Heron Organic Farm (Lincoln, MA)
Blue Hill Heritage Trust (Blue Hill, ME)
Borders Bookstore (Peabody, MA)
Boston Center for Adult Education (various locations)
Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area (Boston, MA)
Boston Mycological Club (various locations)
Boston Natural Areas Fund (Mattapan, MA)
Boston Urban Gardeners (Boston)
Brimfield Public Library (Brimfield, MA)
Busa Farm CSA (Lexington, MA)
Cambridge Center for Adult Education (various locations)
Cape Cod Commission (Falmouth, MA)
Center for Whole Communities, Knoll Farm (Fayston, VT)
Charlton Conservation Commission (Charlton, MA)
Charlton Fay Mountain Farm Committee (Charlton, MA)
Citizens for Lexington Conservation (Lexington, MA)
Clark University (Worcester, MA)
Cobb Hill Cohousing Community/Sustainability Institute (Hartland, VT)
Columbia Land Conservancy (East Chatham, NY)
Community Farms Outreach/Waltham Fields Community Farm (Waltham, MA)
Concord-Carlisle Community Education (Concord, MA)
Connecticut River Watershed Council (various locations in CT, MA and VT)
Damariscotta River Association (various locations)
Dartmouth College (Moosilauke Ravine Lodge, Warren, NH)
Dartmouth Natural Resources Trust (Dartmouth, MA)
Delta Institute of Natural History (Bowdoin, ME)
Dunstable Rural Land Trust (Dunstable, MA)
Earthpledge (Pocantico Hills, NY)
East Quabbin Land Trust (Hardwick, MA)
Ecotarium (Worcester, MA)
Essex County Greenbelt Association (Essex, Ipswich and West Newbury, MA)
Essex National Heritage Area (Trails and Sails)(Essex, Andover and West Newbury, MA)
Farmington River Watershed Association (Burlington, CT)
Foggy River Farm (Great Barrington, MA)
Franklin (a.k.a. Summer) Farm Organic Farm (Cumberland, RI)
Franklin Land Trust (Hawley, MA)
French River Connection (Oxford, MA)
Friends of Arlington's Great Meadows (Lexington, MA)
Friends of the Alewife Reservation (Cambridge, MA)
Friends of the Middlesex Fells (Medford, MA)
Friends of the Oxbow Wildlife Refuge (Harvard, MA)
Great Barrington Housatonic River Walk (Great Barrington, MA)
Green Meadows Organic Farm (Hamilton, MA)
Greensboro Land Trust (Greensboro, VT)
Hamilton-Wenham Public Library (Hamilton, MA)
Harvard Conservation Trust (Harvard, MA)
Harvard Local (Harvard and Stow, MA)
Harvard University Innings and Outings (Cambridge, MA)
Hitchcock Free Academy (Brimfield, MA)
Holland Conservation Commission (Holland, MA)
Hoosic River Watershed Association (Williamstown, MA and Pownal, VT)
Housatonic Valley Association (various locations in MA and CT)
Hub Club (various locations)
Interface (Cambridge, MA)
Ipswich River Watershed Association (Topsfield, MA)
Joshua's Tract Conservation and Historic Trust (Ashford and Mansfield, CT)
Land's Sake (Weston, MA)
Lincoln Land Conservation Trust (Lincoln, MA)
Littleton Conservation Trust (Littleton, MA)
Mahoosuc Land Trust (Bethel, ME)
Massachusetts Audubon Society:
Arcadia Sanctuary (Easthampton)
Broadmeadow Brook Sanctuary (Worcester)
Broadmoor Sanctuary (Natick)
Habitat Sanctuary (Belmont)
Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary (Topsfield, Newbury and Marblehead)
Laughing Brook Sanctuary (Hampden)
Stony Brook Sanctuary (Norfolk and Medway)
Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary (Wellfleet)
Massachusetts Association of Conservation Commissions (Weston, MA)
Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation:
Blackstone River and Canal Heritage State Park, Uxbridge
Great Brook Farm State Park, Carlisle
Halibut Point State Park, Rockport
Harold Parker State Forest, Andover
Maudslay State Park, Newburyport
Wells State Park, Sturbridge
Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife (Lenox and Falmouth, MA)
Massachusetts Forestry Association (various locations)
Massachusetts Horticultural Society (Boston)
Massachusetts Sierra Club (Cambridge, Haverhill, Weston and Boston, MA)
Metacomet Land Trust (Blackstone and Bellingham, MA)
Monadnock Conservancy (Dublin, NH)
Montshire Museum of Science (Norwich, VT)
Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust (Montague,Athol and New Salem, MA)
Mount Washington Arts Council (Mt. Washington and Egremont, MA)
Mountain Lynx (Fitchburg, MA)
Museum of Science, Boston (various locations)
Mystic River Watershed Association (Cambridge, MA)
Nashua Urban Trails Alliance (Nashua, NH)
Nashua River Watershed Association (various locations)
New England Forestry Foundation (Middleton, MA)
New England Park Rangers Association (North Andover, MA)
New England Wild Flower Society (various locations)
New Roxbury Land Trust (Woodstock, CT)
Newton Community Education (Newton, MA)
Newton Conservators (Newton, MA)
Norcross Wildlife Sanctuary (Wales, MA)
North and South Rivers Watershed Association (Norwell, MA)
Northeast Organic Farming Association - Massachusetts (Amherst and Belchertown, MA)
Northampton Pedestrian/Bicycle Alliance (Northampton, MA)
Northborough Citizens for Community Preservation (Northborough, MA)
Northfield Mountain Environmental Education Center (Northfield, MA)
Opacum Land Trust (Charlton, Sturbridge, Brookfield, Brimfield and Holland, MA)
Organization for the Assabet River (Northborough and Westborough, MA)
Peabody-Essex Museum (Salem and Gloucester, MA)
Polly Hill Arboretum (W. Tisbury and Chappaquiddick, MA)
Portland Trails (Portland, ME)
Quinebaug/Shetucket Rivers Valley National Heritage Corridor (Ashford and Pomfret, CT; Sturbridge, Oxford, Charlton, Brimfield and Holland, MA)
Regional Environmental Council (Paxton and Worcester, MA)
Rehoboth Conservation Commission (Rehoboth, MA)
RESTORE: The North Woods (North Fryeburg, ME)
Rhode Island Wild Plant Society (Charlestown, Coventry, Jamestown and Lincoln, RI)
Salem Sound Coastwatch (Beverly, MA)
Saugus River Watershed Council (Saugus, MA)
Science Center of New Hampshire (Holderness, NH)
Sheffield Land Trust (Sheffield, MA)
Shore Lea Nature Center (Marblehead, MA)
Slow Food USA (Berkshire-Columbia Convivium) (Williamstown, MA)
Slow Food USA (Seacoast Convivium) (Rye, NH)
Slow Food USA (Western Massachusetts Convivium) (Great Barrington, MA)
Somerville Conservation Commission (Somerville, MA)
South Shore Natural Science Center (Norwell, MA)
Squam Lake Natural Sciences Center (Holderness, NH)
Stearns Organic Farm (Framingham, MA)
Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture (Pocantico Hills, NY)
Sturbridge Conservation Commission (Sturbridge, MA)
SubSig Outing Club (Crawford Notch, NH)
Sudbury, Assabet, Concord Wild and Scenic River Stewardship Council (Marlborough, MA)
Sudbury Valley Trustees (Sudbury, MA)
The Good Life Center (Cape Rosier, ME)
The Naturalists' Club (Springfield Museum of Natural History)(Longmeadow, MA)
The Trustees of Reservations (Monson, Medfield, Sheffield, Tyringham, Royalston, Nantucket and Fall River, MA)
The Nature Conservancy, Maine Chapter (Camden, and Newry, ME)
The Nature Conservancy, Massachusetts Chapter (Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts)
The Nature Conservancy, Sunny Valley Preserve (New Milford, CT)
Tin Mountain Conservation Center (Jackson, NH)
Toad Hall Bookstore (Rockport, MA)
Tower Hill Botanic Garden (Boylston, MA)
Trust for Public Land (Provincetown, MA)
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Charlestown, RI)
Urban Outing Club (Cambridge, MA)
Upper Housatonic Heritage Area (Sharon, CT and Tyringham, Great Barrington and Sheffield, MA)
Valley Land Fund (So. Hadley, MA)
Vermont Institute of Natural Science (Queechee, VT)
Wachusett Greenways (Holden and Rutland, MA)
WalkBoston (Boston, MA)
Waltham Land Trust (Waltham, MA)
Westboro Community Land Trust (Northboro and Westboro, MA)
Weston Forest and Trail Association (Weston, MA)
Westport River Watershed Alliance (Westport, MA)
White Oak Land Conservation Society (Holden, MA)
Williamstown Rural Lands Foundation (Williamstown, MA and Pownal, VT)
Winding River Land Trust (Westfield, MA)

Please contact Russ at (781) 646-7489 (h), (617) 626-1543 (w) or eatwild@rcn.com if your group/organization would like to sponsor one of Russ' edible wild plant/mushroom walks, courses or slide shows.


Last Update: 10/08/07
Schedule of Russ' Edible Wild Plant Walks/Courses
Information on Russ's foraging book: "Wild Plants I Have Known...and Eaten"
Russ Cohen's Biography
Recipes, including "Faux Gumbo" and "100% Wild Salad" as prepared on the PBS Victory Garden TV program
Foraging articles from Mass. Wildlife Magazine, Yankee Magazine, etc.
Edible Wild Plant/Mushroom Bibliography