New to foraging

Hi everyone....I'm new to foraging and currently reading Samuel Thayer's book "Nature's Garden: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants". Great read and I'm learning a lot but I'm also looking for a good field guild for the mid-west (Missouri) and any recommendations on one or pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

I'm not familiar with that region but I just want to give some general encouragement to a new forager!

Here's a website with a ton of information about edible wild and feral plants, many of which may be in your region: http://www.eattheweeds.com/

You should be able to find something at one of these sites:

http://www.gardenguides.com/108941-identify-missouris-native-plants.html?utm_source=popup&utm_medium=2
http://grownative.org/plant-picker/seedling-identification/
http://www.missourinativeplantsociety.org/home
http://missouriplants.com/

grab a peterson's field guide for your area, I read mine for the Northeast every night, and bring it into the woods whenever I am hunting/hiking/doing a walkabout, and I try to identify everything I can, edible and inedible.

Those are great links both of you, thanks!

I'm also in MO and wanting to get into some wild edibles this year so I did a web search and found a set of pdfs on the MO dept of Conservation produced from an out of print book. missouri wild edibles A search for MO in wild harvesting here brought up this thread so I'm bumping it