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The Forager's Top Pick!
 Nature's
Garden
A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants
by Samuel Thayer (Publisher: Forager's Harvest)
Product Details
9" x 6" Paperback: 512 pages
Color photos throughout, Indexed
ISBN: 0976626616
Price: $24.95 - In stock
About the Book:
Nature’s Garden follows the same award-winning format of Samuel Thayer’s
first book, Forager's Harvest, with in-depth chapters covering 41 new wild
edibles. In this volume you will find the most authoritative accounts of
several important food plants, such as hackberry and American lotus,
available anywhere. You will find mouth-watering photography of cranberries,
blueberries, huckleberries, strawberries, wild plums, and more. You’ll hear
of new methods for using dandelions. You’ll finally be able to make sense of
the tricky wild lettuce / sow thistle group. You’ll discover that wild
carrot and poison hemlock can be reliably told apart, thanks to a detailed
chart accompanied by 19 photographs. You’ll read about vegetables with a
rich tradition of use around the world that are largely ignored in the wild
food literature, such as cow parsnip, patience dock, and honewort. You can
read more exciting myth-busting about poisonous plant fables and the
maligned black nightshade, plus anecdotes about purple children and the
hazards of eating cacti. Yet perhaps the best part of all is the book within
a book about acorns: 51 pages of the details that turn these nuts into food.
The Guide Features:
- 512 color photos, demonstrating each edible part in the proper stage
of harvest, plus showing important identifying features
- Super-strong sewn binding
- Step-by-step tutorial to positive plant identification
- Photos and text comparing potentially confusing plants
- Thorough discussion on how to gather and use the plants
- Detailed information on harvest, preparation, and storage techniques
- A foraging calendar showing harvest times for wild foods
- A glossary of botanical terms illustrated with line drawings
- Bibliography and recommended reading list
- Index
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