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The Forager's Harvest A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants By Samuel Thayer The Forager's Harvest is a wild food book like no other. Drawing upon a lifetime of experience with edible wild plants, the author shares his in-depth knowledge of foraging with the authority, enthusiasm, and humor that have captivated thousands. You'll gain an intimate under-standing of all the plants in this book, where to find them, how to identify them, their seasons of harvest, and their methods of collection and preparation. This is the prefect guide for all experience levels, with more than 200 color photos, showing each edible part in the proper stage for harvest. Step-by-step tutorial to plant identification, as well as photos and text comparing potentially confusing plants. Includes a thorough discussion of how to gather and use the plants, a foraging calendar showing harvest times for wild foods, and an illustrated glossary.
23410 - The Forager's Harvest - $18.95
Nature's Garden A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants By Samuel Thayer
Nature's Garden is Samuel Thayer's long awaited, Part II, to his original The Forager's Harvest. The author continues with his in-depth knowledge of foraging with the authority, enthusiasm, and humor that have captivated thousands. This book provides an additional 42 plants, and more than 400 color photos, showing each edible plant in the proper stage for harvest. You'll gain an intimate under-standing of all the plants in this book, where to find them, how to identify them, their seasons of harvest, and their methods of collection and preparation. Includes a thorough discussion of how to gather and use the plants, a foraging calendar showing harvest times for wild foods, and an illustrated glossary. According to Bill Heavey, editor-at-large, Field & Stream magazine, "Amid an overabundance of armchair guides to foraging, Nature's Garden is the book you want in hand if you are actually going to head out to identify, harvest and prepare wild edible plants.
23411 - Nature's Garden - $20.95
Edible Wild Plants Eastern/Central North America By Lee Allen Peterson
This is the Edible Plant Guide we recommend for the North East. It is a field guide to edible plants in Eastern and Central America. More than 370 edible wild plants, plus 37 poisonous look-alikes, are described here, with 400 drawings and 78 color photographs showing precisely how to recognize each species. Also included are habitat descriptions, lists of plants by season, and preparation instructions for 22 different foods. 7-1.4" x 4.5". 330 pages.
23401 - Edible Wild Plants -
Eastern/Central NA - $18.00
The Essential Wild Food Survival Guide By Linda Runyon
Linda Runyon's 13-year experience of homesteading without stores, electricity, or other modern conveniences, brought about the creation of this ultimate wild food guide! She identifies many varieties of edible wild foods. The majority of the plants are found in all 50 states, and indeed, most of the world. A few are unique to the East or the West United States. Formerly released as "From Crabgrass Muffins to Pine Needle Tea", The Essential Wild Food Survival Guide is new and improved. It is larger than the original edition, is an easier-to-read format, has clearer improved graphics, and an expanded recipe section.
23409 - Essential Wild Food Survival
Guide - $22.00
Botany In A Day By Thomas J. Elpel
Although not an edible plant book per se, Botany in a Day is changing the way people are learning about plants. Instead of presenting individual plants, this book unveils the patterns of identification and uses among related plants, giving readers simple tools to rapidly unlock the mysteries of the new species they encounter. Instead of trying to identify plants one-at-a-time, this book gives you a way to learn them by the hundreds, based on the principle that related plants have similar patterns for identification, and they often have similar uses. Measures 11" x 8-1/2" with 221 pages.
23405 - Botany In A Day - $29.00
Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants - 2nd Edition By Bradford Angier
Despite the title, this is not actually a field guide. This is an alphabetical directory of 116 plants, arranged from "acorn" to "yellow water lily". Each entry has a very clear color drawing, and gives the plant's family, other names, description, distribution, and a discussion of edibility, with an occasional hint on preparation. However, if you do not know the name of a plant, then you must compare it one by one to the pictures in the book., to try to see if it matches. Measures 8-1/4" x 5-1/2" with 255 pages.
23402 - Field Guide to Edible Wild
Plants - $19.00
The Dandelion Celebration By Dr. Peter Gail
If you can't beat them, eat'em, is one way to look at it. This is the book that started all the current interest in the value of dandelions. Of course, there are also health and nutritional benefits, the great taste when you complement them with the right ingredients to mask the bitterness), and the wide variety of ways to prepare dandelion roots, flowers and greens. This book is the definitive guide to enjoying dandelions in everything from breads, casseroles and pizza to wine, coffee, and dessert. Discover the history and the nutritional and medicinal properties of this lawnscaping arch villain as you learn how to pick, prepare and savor every part of the plant. 160 pages with 9 photos. 5.5" x 8.5" paperback. SIGNED COPY
23406 - The Dandelion Celebration -
$10.95
The Great Dandelion Cookbook By Judi Strauss and Dr. Peter Gail
This is basically Volume II of "The Dandelion Celebration." Since 1994 cooks with dandelion in their heritage have been invited to share their recipes and win prizes in the National Dandelion Cookoff. This is a compilation of the over 125 recipes from the finalists in the first five cookoffs. The yummiest of the these recipes - from dandyburgers and dandeolis (raviolis made with dandelions) to dandelion flower drop cookies - have been collected here. This is a great addition to The Dandelion Celebration. SIGNED COPY
23407 - The Great Dandelion Cookbook -
$10.95
Volunteer Vegetable Sampler By Dr. Peter Gail
This book profiles 41 common backyard weeds and fruits, providing history, medicinal and culinary information about each plant, along with recipes for their use. Included are chapters on how to find help with identification, how to market weeds at roadside stands, building an effective first aid kit using backyard weeds, and a pre K-college curriculum unit for teaching young people how to forage. Filled with useful information for the person of the family that wishes to know the value of and uses for plants which they walk over each day. Comb bound, 192 pages, 8.5" x 11". SIGNED COPY
23408 - Volunteer Vegetable Sampler -
$19.95 EDIBLE & POISONOUS PLANT CARDS
These decks of cards are great for backpackers, hikers, campers, or persons learning edible and poisonous plants. Full-color pictures combined with detailed descriptions enable the collector to identify these plants in their native habitats. The set for Eastern States includes the more important edible (44) and poisonous (8), and for the Western States, edible (45) and poisonous (9).
18021 - Edible & Poisonous Plants of the
Eastern States - $7.95
18022 - Edible & Poisonous Plants of the
Western States - $7.95
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