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Guide to Wild Foods and Useful Plants
An array of abundant wild foods is available to hikers, campers, botanists 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. It also includes fascinating folklore about plants, personal anecdotes about trips and meals, simple and tasty recipes, and photographs.
256 pages, Paperback
First published May 1, 1999
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September 6, 2008
nice book. tons of great information on the usefulness of edible plants that grow all over the place!! backyard, where ever! this is a great book for outdoors people that want to learn to live off the land and aren't afraid to get dirty and eat stuff off the ground. yum! just don't get carried away and eat too much wild mustard at one time, it gets real hot all of a sudden!
like all field guides, they can be difficult to use with out a guide by your side- especially when you are eating wild plants. color images in the book would have been worth the extra cost of printing, the black and white ones don't do much for me. for sure, a guy/scout book.
like all field guides, they can be difficult to use with out a guide by your side- especially when you are eating wild plants. color images in the book would have been worth the extra cost of printing, the black and white ones don't do much for me. for sure, a guy/scout book.
August 30, 2016
This book should have come with a disclaimer that it was written by an author based in Southern California and was intended mainly for readers based in the West of the US. Useful descriptions and recipe/medicinal suggestions but the blurry black and white photos made plant identification impossible.
June 5, 2018
This is a VERY useful book, if you are actually going to head out on foraging expeditions. I'm hoping to do this, but this book is so full of information...so much that I'm intimidated and just a bit nervous that I'll accidentally pick a psychedelic mushroom and go on a trip I didn't plan for. I read through the ebook version, but would love my own printed copy to take out in the off-grid jungles of Hamilton, Ontario.
June 9, 2025
Highly Recommend. I have read several guides so far on wild foraging and this seems to be one of the better ones. I do wish they had a bit more photos of the different plants for better identification but I guess I can find that else. .
September 18, 2022
Could be a decent book if the photos weren't absolutely horrible!
October 7, 2014
Guide to Wild Foods and Useful Plants by Christopher Nyerges (Chicago Free Press 2014) (581.63). This is a book about foraging. Euell Gibbons would be proud. The author highlights "found foods": coffee from chicory, greens from dandelions, nasturtium-leaf salad, etc. It's missing only Euell Gibbons' irony and humor. My rating: 7/10, finished 10/2/14.
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