Christopher Nyerges, co-founder of the School of Self-reliance, has led wild food walks for thousands of students since 1974. He has authored numerous books on wild foods, survival, and self-reliance, and thousands of newspaper and magazine articles. He’s most recently written Foraging Idaho, Foraging California, and Foraging Arizona, all FalconGuides. He continues to teach where he lives in Los Angeles County, California.