Grow Your Own Bushfoods: A Complete Guide to Planting, Eating and Harvesting

by Keith Smith, Irene Smith

Comprehensive and practical guide to growing and harvesting Australian bushfoods. Grow Your Own Bushfoods is the first ever comprehensive and practical guide to growing and harvesting more than 140 kinds of Australian bushfoods right in your own backyard. Detailed plant profiles describe ideal growing conditions and characteristics of each species. In addition there are suggestions on the best ways to prepare and eat your bushfoods. A bushfood directory is also included which lists suppliers of catalogues, seeds and seedlings as well as native plant gardens open for inspection. Written with an emphasis on using natural growing methods, Grow Your Own Bushfoods enables everyone to enjoy Australian bushfoods while at the same time preserving our endangered plant species.

140 pages, Paperback

First published December 31, 1999

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[Keith · Rating 5 out of 5]

Grow your own Bushfoods is a joint work by Keith (Keith Vincent Smith) & Irene Smith, founders of Earth Garden Magazine in 1972.

The second paperback edition, issued in 2013, includes an updated Bushfoods Directory of bushfood plant and seed suppliers.

It tells you how to grow some 70 indigenous Australian bushfoods (or bush tucker) in your garden - instead of ripping plants out of the bush to eat.
It is a soft cover book, not a hard cover.

[Rosemary · Rating 4 out of 5]

Handy-sized reference book with realistic growing advice, plus information on usage by the first Australians and the European settlers. Illustrated in black and white by Beth Norling.