The Everything Guide to Foraging: Identifying, Harvesting, and Cooking Nature’s Wild Fruits and Vegetables by Vickie Shufer
Print Length: 304 Pages
Publisher: Everything
Publication Date: June 18, 2011
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1440512760
ISBN-13: 978-1440512766
File Format: EPUB
If you’re searching for the freshest fruits and vegetables to add to your diet, you don’t have to look any further than your own backyard! With dozens of detailed illustrations, color photos, and more than 150 tasty recipes, this guide is your ultimate one-stop reference for identifying and harvesting the wild fruits and vegetables that grow in fields, forests, and even on your own lawn.
Inside you’ll find:
In-depth descriptions of edible plants, including their likely locations
Easy and delicious recipes for your wild harvest
A primer on careful foraging techniques and conservation ethics
Essential information on poisonous look-alikes
From clover and cattails to milkweed and mustard, this book will teach you how to collect and prepare some of the most common–and delicious–feral plants in America. And, more than just a way to a fantastic meal, this book will guide you to both a newfound confidence in your own abilities, as well as a greater appreciation of the natural world.
