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Publisher
FalconGuides
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"Edible Wild Plants is a field guide to the 90 most common and sought-after species in North America. Conveniently sized to fit in your pocket and featuring full-color, detailed illustrations, this informative guide makes it easy to identify plants in your backyard, favorite parks, and wildlife areas"--
"Edible Wild Plants is a field guide to the 90 most common and sought-after species in North America. Conveniently sized to fit in your pocket and...
Author
Series
Publisher
FalconGuides
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A fully revised and updated field guide to the 90 most common and sought-after species in North America. Conveniently sized to fit in your pocket and featuring detailed color illustrations, this informative guide makes it easy to identify plants in your backyard, favorite parks, and wildlife areas"--
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English
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Trying to eat locally? Discover food in the plant life all around you. Learn to eat your way around the block! Your backyard or a nearby park or vacant lot might be rich with edible possibilities. The author leads you through harvesting etiquette, plant identification, and tips on how to eat the leaves, flowers, nuts, seeds, roots, and mushrooms that are there for the taking. Foraging is the fun, safe, and free way to eat locally
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English
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"This full color guide makes foraging accessible for beginners and is a reliable source for advanced foragers." -Edible Chicago
The Midwest offers a veritable feast for foragers, and with Lisa Rose as your trusted guide you will learn how to safely find and identify an abundance of delicious wild plants. The plant profiles in Midwest Foraging include clear, color photographs, identification tips, guidance on how to ethically harvest, and suggestions...
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English
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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 types it 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
Publisher
Storey Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
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...
Author
Publisher
Forager's Harvest
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The most comprehensive field guide to the edible wild plants of eastern North America, by the region's leading authority on edible wild plants. Covers 678 edibles, with over 1,800 color photos, detailed descriptions, and 625 range maps
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Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Collected here are insightful tips and detailed descriptions relating to the edibility and healing potential of more than one hundred wild plants. Drawing on expansive personal experience as well as more than a thousand scientific and ethnobotanical studies, author Matthew Alfs offers tips on foraging for and identifying the plants growing in the fields, meadows, and woods of the Midwest. He provides detailed lists of plants for specific physiological...
Author
Publisher
Timber Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"We can all make tasty and surprising dishes from wild food found in our cities. With expert advice from professional forager and bestselling Timber author Lisa Rose, alongside elegant photography, this handy guide explains how to identify and where to find 50 plants that grow across the temperate US; accompanying simple recipes help prepare wild feasts"--
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English
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"The United Nations supports a compelling solution to world hunger: eat insects! Explore the vast world of unexpected foods that may help solve the global hunger crisis. Weeds, wild plants, invasive and feral species, and bugs are all food for thought. Learn about the nutritional value of various plant and animal species; visit a cricket farm; try a recipe for dandelion pancakes, kudzu salsa, or pickled purslane; and discover more about climate change,...
14) Eat the weeds
Author
Publisher
Adventure Publications
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Which plants should you eat-and when should you eat them? Let "Green" Deane Jordan guide you with his book Eat the Weeds. Green Deane teaches foraging classes and runs a popular foraging website (also called Eat the Weeds). Now he's sharing his expertise with you. Eat the Weeds presents 195 wild edibles and helps you to find, identify, and harvest them"--
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