Guide to Wild Foods and Useful Plants

Guide to Wild Foods and Useful Plants

Guide to Wild Foods and Useful Plants

Guide to Wild Foods and Useful Plants

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Overview

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 more than 70 plants found all around the United States along with more than 100 full color photos plus handy leaf, fruit, and seed keys to help readers identify the plants. It also includes fascinating folklore about plants, personal anecdotes about trips and meals, and simple and tasty recipes.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781613746981
Publisher: Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 04/01/2014
Edition description: Second Edition, Second edition, Revised & Updated
Pages: 352
Sales rank: 1,141,754
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Christopher Nyerges is the director of the School of Self-Reliance, where he has taught classes on wild foods and survival skills since 1974. He is an associate editor of Wilderness Way and West Coast editor of Wild Food Forum. He has published hundreds of articles on wild foods, gardening, self-reliance, and survival skills in American Survival Guide, Whole Life Times, Mother Earth News, Herbalist, and many other magazines.

Table of Contents

Foreword Ed Begley Jr. vii

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

Pictorial Key to Leaf Shapes 7

Pictorial Key to Fruits and Seeds 12

Agave 17

Alyssum 22

Amaranth 25

Black Sage 28

Brodiaea 31

Burdock 34

California Bay 39

California Coffee Berry and Cascara Sagrada 42

Camphor Tree 46

Carob 51

Castor Bean 56

Cattail 60

Chia 65

Chickweed 70

Chicory 73

Cleavers 77

Currants and Gooseberries 79

Dandelion 82

Dock 88

Elder 92

Epazote 95

Eucalyptus 98

Fennel 103

Filaree 106

Glasswort 108

Grass 111

Horehound 116

Horsetail 118

Jimsonweed 121

Lamb's Quarter 124

Mallow 127

Manzanita 130

Milkweed 135

Miner's Lettuce 138

Mugwort 140

Mustard I44

Nasturtium 148

Nettle 152

Oak Tree 159

Passionflower 165

Piñon Pine 170

Plantain 174

Poison Hemlock 178

Poison Oak 183

Prickly Lettuce 189

Prickly Pear 192

Purslane 197

Rose 202

Rosemary 207

Russian Thistle 210

Sea Rocket 213

Seaweeds 216

Shepherd's Purse 226

Sow Thistle 229

Thistle 232

Toothwort 235

Toyon 238

Tree Tobacco 241

Watercress 244

Water Hyacinth 248

Western Black Nightshade 253

White Sage 256

Wild Asparagus 259

Wild Buckwheat 261

Wild Cucumber 263

Wild Onions 267

Willow 270

Wood Sorrel 275

Yarrow 278

Yerba Santa 281

Yucca 283

Appendix 1 Safe Families: A Guide to the (Relatively) Easily Recognized Plant Families That Are Nontoxic and Primarily Edible 287

Appendix 2 Why Eat Wild Foods? 303

Glossary 311

Bibliography 323

Index 327

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