The Prepper's Guide to Foraging: How Wild Plants Can Supplement a Sustainable Lifestyle, Revised and Updated, Second Edition

by David Nash, Todd Walker (Foreword)

The Prepper's Guide to Foraging is not a plant identification guide in the traditional sense. It is instead a guide to using plants to supplement other means of food production and subsistence living. Author David Nash believes that there is not enough land available for to support a large scale return to the hunter/gatherer lifestyle in the event of a large-scale disaster, but that botanical knowledge does provide an edge to the well prepared.

This book advocates the acquisition of knowledge to allow its reader to safely identify, harvest, and use common North American plants. Wild plants can provide shelter, material, medicine, and food to help the reader extend stored food as well as to create items that may be otherwise unavailable during a crisis.

Twenty-five easily identified plants common to the United States are described and illustrated with notations for their common usage. Each plant described in this book comes with one recipe for food as well as detailed instructions for at least one alternative use. Additional instructions for the preparation of standard medicinal items like tinctures, creams, and infusions are listed as well as botanical guides to help identify other plants is included. Special emphasis has been added for North American trees.

Genres: Nonfiction

300 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 25, 2016

Reviews

[Two Readers in Love · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beautiful photographs with solid descriptions and tips followed by practical recipes and projects.

Example p. 105 "White Clover Iced Tea

Ingredients:
1 cup fresh white clover blossoms or 1/2 cup dried blossoms
4 cups water
Honey or maple syrup (optional)
Lemon (optional)

Procedure:
1.) Boil water. Put the clover blossoms into a quart jar.
2.) Pour boiling water over the blossoms. Let steep for at least 30 minutes, or up to 4 hours.
3.) Strain out the clover blossoms with a fine mesh sieve and refrigerate.
4.) Serve cold over ice with honey or maple syrup and lemon if desired."

[Andrew Gagne · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a nice introduction to foraging for wild plants. However, I am skeptical towards the medicinal use of some of the plants presented.

[Linda · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some useful recipes and uses for plants whether or not the zombie apocalypse ever occurs.

[Heather W]

In case of apocalypse: please kill me.

[Clipinchick]

I received this book for free from the author/publisher in response for an honest review of the book. I have not had the opportunity to read this book at this time. I will add my
review of this book once I have read the book. Thank k you for allowing me the optometrist review your work. I look forward to reading this book.