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Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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In this engaging and eye-opening read, forager-journalist Becky Lerner sets out on a quest to find her inner hunter-gatherer in the city of Portland, Oregon. After a disheartening week trying to live off wild plants from the streets and parks near her home, she learns the ways of the first people who lived there and, along with a quirky cast of characters, discovers an array of useful wild plants hiding in plain sight. As she harvests them for
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Language
English
Description
"Revised and updated. The Prepper's Guide to Foraging is not a plant identification guide in the traditional sense. It is instead a guide to using plants to supplement other means of food production and subsistence living. Author David Nash believes that there is not enough land available for to support a large-scale return to the hunter-gatherer lifestyle in the event of a large-scale disaster, but that botanical knowledge does provide an edge to...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
255 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"How to Forage for Wild Foods without Dying is a book for anyone who likes to go on nature walks and would like to learn about the edible plants they're most likely to come across-no matter what region they're in. Author Ellen Zachos shares her considerable expertise, acquired over decades of foraging in every part of North America. She offers clear, concise descriptions of edible wild plants, in addition to any potential lookalikes, as well as critical...
12) Foraging wild edible plants of North America: more than 150 delicious recipes using nature's edibles
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Series
Language
English
Description
"A full-color field and feast guide with images of the most common edible wild plants, complete with recipes and folklore"--
Author
Language
English
Description
An information-packed tool for the novice or handy reference for the veteran that distills years of knowledge into an affordable and portable book. You'll discover how to identify and gather more than 100 of the most nutritious wild plants and useful herbs in the contiguous United States, prepare delicious recipes using your wild harvest, determine the identity of poisonous plants and poisonous look-alikes, and take charge of your personal health...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
ix, 337 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
An array of abundant wild foods is available to hikers, campers, foragers, or anyone interested in living closer to the earth. Written by a leading expert on wild foods and a well-known teacher of survival skills, Guide to Wild Foods and Useful Plants is more than a listing of plant typesit teaches how to recognize edible plants and where to find them, their medicinal and nutritional properties, and their growing cycles. This new edition features...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xiv, 358 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
The Wild Wisdom of Weeds is the only book on foraging and edible weeds to focus on the thirteen weeds found all over the world, each of which represents a complete food source and extensive medical pharmacy and first-aid kit. More than just a field guide to wild edibles, it is a global plan for human survival.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
319 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"Learn how to ethically harvest, store, and use the abundance of wild foods that surround you. This comprehensive book will become a favorite reference for you on your journey into wild foods and foraging. Each wild food entry in this book has an introduction, a range map, edible uses, common medicinal uses, poisonous lookalikes, a description of the flowers and leaves for ID, excellent color photos, harvesting instructions, and a simple recipe."...
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