Foraging for Wild Foods

Author: David Squire
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN: 1607652757
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 263

Book Description
With delightful illustrations and fascinating facts aimed at young readers, this children’s book explores the natural world of riverbanks. Have you ever wondered how and why beavers build their dams, how otters live, or how frogs come to be? Now you can find out! This charming picture book teaches young children what it’s like to be an animal living on and in the water. With each turn of the page, this volume reveals dozens of adorable illustrations, educational captions, and vocabulary words. From beavers and otters to snakes, frogs, newts, and more, children will love learning all about these busy aquatic animals and the amazing lives they live! This is a fixed-format ebook, which preserves the design and layout of the original print book

Wild Edibles

Author: Sergei Boutenko
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
ISBN: 1583946276
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 297

Book Description
Sergei Boutenko’s groundbreaking field guide to the art and science of foraging and preparing wild edible plants—includes 300+ photos of 60 plants **An Amazon Editors' Pick -- Best Cookbooks, Food & Wine** In Wild Edibles, Sergei Boutenko’s bestselling work on the art and science of live-food wildcrafting, readers will learn how to safely identify 60 delicious trailside weeds, herbs, fruits, and greens growing all around us. It also outlines basic rules for safe wild-food foraging and discusses poisonous plants, plant identification protocols, gathering etiquette, and conservation strategies. But the journey doesn’t end there. Rooted in Boutenko’s robust foraging experience, botanary science, and fresh dietary perspectives, this practical companion gives hikers, backpackers, raw foodists, gardeners, chefs, foodies, DIYers, survivalists, and off-the-grid enthusiasts the necessary tools to transform their simple harvests into safe, delicious, and nutrient-rich recipes. Special features include: 60 edible plant descriptions, most of them found worldwide 300+ color photos that make plant identification easy and safe 67 tasty, high-nutrient plant-based recipes, including green smoothies, salads and salad dressings, spreads and crackers, main courses, juices, and sweets For the wildly adventurous and playfully rebellious, Wild Edibles will expand your food options, providing readers with the inspiration and essential know-how to live more healthy (yet thrifty), more satisfying (yet sustainable) lives.

Foraging

Author: David Squire
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9781616084066
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
Clear instructions to help you identify and gather wild food.

Self Sufficiency Foraging

Author: David Squire
Publisher: New Holland Australia(AU)
ISBN: 9781847737724
Category : Cooking (Natural foods)
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
Arranged as a directory of categories - wild plants, herbs, fruits, nuts, mushrooms, seaweeds and shellfish - this book provides guidance on identifying a wholesome and natural food store, all for free.

Browsing Nature's Aisles

Author: Wendy Brown
Publisher: New Society Publishers
ISBN: 1550925407
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 168

Book Description
This guide to suburban foraging shares the “inspiring journal of one family’s effort to break free from manufactured foods and transition to . . . wild fare” (Thomas J. Elpel, author, Botany in a Day). As part of their commitment to increasing self-reliance and resiliency, Wendy and Eric Brown decided to spend a year incorporating wild edibles into their regular diet. Their goal was to use native flora and fauna to help bridge the gap between what their family could produce and what they needed to survive. The experience fundamentally changed their definition of food. Packed with a wealth of information on collecting, preparing, and preserving easily identifiable wild edibles found in most suburban landscapes, Browsing Nature s Aisles is the story of one suburban family s adventures in wild foraging. This unique and inspiring guide is a must-read for those who wish to enhance their food security by availing themselves of the cornucopia on their doorstep.

Foraging California

Author: Christopher Nyerges
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493040901
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 273

Book Description
From acacia to wild grape, Foraging California guides the reader to the edible wild foods and healthful herbs of the Golden State. Helpfully organized by plant families, with detailed information on locations, the book is an authoritative guide for nature lovers, outdoorsmen, and gastronomes.

Edible Wild Plants

Author: John Kallas
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 1423616596
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 418

Book Description
The founder of Wild Food Adventures presents the definitive, fully illustrated guide to foraging and preparing wild edible greens. Beyond the confines of our well-tended vegetable gardens, there is a wide variety of fresh foods growing in our yards, neighborhoods, or local woods. All that’s needed to take advantage of this wild bounty is a little knowledge and a sense of adventure. In Edible Wild Plants, wild foods expert John Kallas covers easy-to-identify plants commonly found across North America. The extensive information on each plant includes a full pictorial guide, recipes, and more. This volume covers four types of wild greens: Foundation Greens: wild spinach, chickweed, mallow, and purslane Tart Greens: curlydock, sheep sorrel, and wood sorrel Pungent Greens: wild mustard, wintercress, garlic mustard, and shepherd’s purse Bitter Greens: dandelion, cat’s ear, sow thistle, and nipplewort

Foraging in 2021

Author: Joseph Erickson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781954182172
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 164

Book Description
Have you ever wondered if you could eat the mushrooms you see on your hike? Do you ever wish you could live off the land a bit more? Have you ever wondered what it would be like to forage for your own food? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then keep reading... Our ancestors didn't have Costco or Walmart to shop at when they wanted something to eat. They had to forage and hunt for the foods they consumed. Contrary to what many people may believe, foraging is still a popular thing for some. There are some people who live off of the land completely, and others simply forage to supplement the food they eat. The one thing all foragers have done is learn about wild plants and know how to spot poisonous ones. That's what this book is here to do. Throughout this book you will learn: What it means to forage How to safely and ethically forage for foods Lists of medicinal and edible plants, and where to find them Lists of poisonous plants Recipes for using the plants The best times to forage How to identify plants ... And much more. Foraging is a rewarding and delicious process. You'll be amazed to find out how many plants around you can be eaten. Dandelions, chickweed, and purslane are all easily found in most people's yards, yet nobody realizes that they could have been eating them all along. If you are serious about improving your health and living a more sustaining life, then SCROLL UP AND CLICK "ADD TO CART".

Billy Joe Tatum's Wild Foods Cookbook and Field Guide

Author: Billy Joe Tatum
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 278

Book Description
A field reference that includes an illustrated guide identifying 70 wild plants, plus a collection of 350 recipes for serving up the forager's finds.

Foraging Wild Edible Plants of North America

Author: Christopher Nyerges
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493064487
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 241

Book Description
Edible wild plants are nature’s natural food source, growing along roadsides, sprouting in backyards, and blooming in country fields. North America’s diverse geography overflows with edible plant species. From alyssum to watercress, chicory to purslane, Foraging Wild Plants of North America provides everything you need to know about the most commonly found wild greens with over 200 mouth-watering recipes. Fully revised and updated, this full-color field and feast guide with images to the most common edible wild plants is the ideal companion for hikers, campers, and anyone who enjoys eating the good food of the earth. Look inside to find recipes such as: Stirfry Amaranth Yellow Pollen Pancakes Chickweed Deluxe Nettle Soup Root Coffee Earth Bread Cattail Stew Fennel Crunch Prickly Pear Ice Cream