Edible Wild Plants for Beginners: The Essential Edible Plants and Recipes to Get Started

by Althea Press

Wild plants are not only beautiful, but they can also be an affordable and sustainable way to add flavor and nutrition to your diet.

Edible Wild Plants for Beginners provides you with the essential information and guidance to begin foraging for edible wild plants and including them in your diet. Edible Wild Plants for Beginners provides profiles of common edible wild plants and includes information on dangerous look-alikes, the best time to harvest, where to find each type of wild plant, and how to cultivate your own garden. From natural remedies to delectable dishes and exotic cocktails, Edible Wild Plants for Beginners provides more than 95 ways for you to use these newfound ingredients.

Edible Wild Plants for Beginners will help you explore the world of edible wild plants and teach you how to use them in your home and kitchen, with:

* More than 95 easy-to-follow edible wild plants recipes and remedies, including Amaranth Vegetable Curry, Pickled Jerusalem Artichokes, Chamomile Cookies, and a Purslane Martini
* Tips for foraging, harvesting, and cultivating edible wild plants
* Techniques for serving, preserving, and cooking with edible wild plants
* 31 edible wild plant profiles, including descriptions, distinguishing features, preparation and collection tips, and common uses
* 10 simple steps to making tinctures

A guide to identifying edible wild plants and avoiding common poisonous plants With Edible Wild Plants for Beginners, you'll be able to start living sustainably, saving money, and adding variety to your diet the way nature intended.

Genres: Nonfiction, Nature, Gardening, Cookbooks, Reference, Health, Survival

258 pages, Paperback

First published November 27, 2013

Reviews

[Alice]

A must have for reference purposes

Excellent book covers 31 commonly found edible plants, giving descriptions, locations, parts to avoid, poisonous look-a-likes and a very very small color photo of the plant. There is a protocol for determining whether a unknown plant is toxic, although it takes so long that someone in a survival predicament would find it frustrating. There are also some recipes and medical usages listed, that are very interesting. A lot of advice on staging a internet search along with some good websites and reference books is given.

The book is very well written, organized, formatted. It also has a great active table of contents and navigation system. My major complaint would be the tiny photos.

[Kristi]

It was okay. I wish the location information was less generic, and I wish there were multiple photos of plants. Good for a beginner book, but not detailed enough for me to purchase a copy. I think there should be more warnings of poisonous plants that look like the edible ones too, but I did like how the author reminds us to double check and do our research.

[Christi Barron]

Decent book

Resources of other books was good. Good guidance. No pics. Easy to read. Good for family study. well laid out chapters and sections. Easy to understand.

[M Beal]

Interesting to learn about what all is out there. I will be taking a copy of this while hiking this year to see what is growing in my area.

[Carlee]

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[Lori Smith]

Very informative

Very helpful and informative book. I learned so much from reading this. The recipes are a great touch. Highly recommend.