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The Forager's Harvest: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants
A practical guide to all aspects of edible wild plants: finding and identifying them, their seasons of harvest, and their methods of collection and preparation. Each plant is discussed in great detail and accompanied by excellent color photographs. Includes an index, illustrated glossary, bibliography, and harvest calendar. The perfect guide for all experience levels.
Paperback, 360 pages
Published
May 15th 2006
by Foragers Harvest Press
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I picked this up along with some recipe books at the library, since I know there's a foraging movement of sorts here in Ye Olde Baye Area.. but just got really excited about having it because I brought in a big harvest of greens and snap peas from my garden! I know I know, a garden is cultivated.. but it's food I got outside in the dirt, and that's closer to foraging than going to the farmer's market or picking up my CSA box. So. Foraging education, begin! PS, this book covers a whole bunch ...more
the conversational tone works very well for this guide book. it has made foraging in my area (which is the same latitude in MN while the author wrote this book in WI) as easy as foraging for actual food can be. berries and fruits are not much of a focus for this book, but rather foods that you could potentially make a meal out of. reference to poisonous look-a-likes is addressed quite well. my favorite part of the book is the two page chart giving you the time-frames you can expect the various p...more
Fewer foods but more in-depth than Edible Wild Plants. The author is hilarious and so readable. He's been hooked on wild foods since he was 6, and he always supplements what he reads with personal experimentation. For instance, whereas a authors of other wild food books just repeat the nonsense about wild parsnip being poisonous, he questions thew received wisdom, checks the science, and tries it for himself. The outcome: he proves that wild parsnp is the same species as garden parsnip, debu...more
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I learned a heckuva lot about wild foods, but the thing I loved most about this book was the author's straightforward, no-nonsense voice. Thayer states that he has narrowed the breadth of plants in the book so that he could give increased depth, and also ensured that he has not included any plant which he has not personally eaten over 50 times. Apparently, there is a wealth of MISinformation in wild edible literature, which makes me a bit hesitant, and I'm sure Thayer would say, "rightly ...more
I put this on my AMZN wishlist after Po's Pon mentioned it on his blog and Nick gave it to me for Christmas, and I ripped through it. Skipped through some, but read enough to find out that the tree I've been wondering about on my shorter run loop is a butternut tree and I can't WAIT until it drops those weird sticky green footballs again, because they sound awesome. And we have tons of milkweed growing in the flood-irrigated pastures along the route as well, so maybe we'll get some premission f...more
Lots of good information, clear pictures, and indepth descriptions and usage for a variety of North American plants. Also includes recipes. The layout, though, isn't my favorite: the mass of information for each plant makes it more difficult to browse.
i have tried to read many wildcrafting for food/medicine books and this is far and away the very best. very detailed, accurate, confidence building
Exceptionally well-presented. Detailed photographs, a sense of humour, solid details and facts.....
LOts of good pictures describing what is edible and what isn't. Also tell how to prepare what you forage
The best wild edible book I've seen so far!
Best foraging book around
An excellent reference with fun personal stories
Very clear and concise. Full of information. Doesn't require pairing up with a field guide like some foraging books, though it wouldn't hurt, either. It's helpful to me that this man's homeland expertise is within a 100 mile radius of my own midwestern living space. (I once read a really great seasonal survival book in which most of the plants didn't apply to my knowledge needs because they grew mainly in the U.K.)
Not just a foraging handbook but a fun read as well! I am learning so much! ( :
Great introduction to foraging for wild foods. Dispels a great number of myths about the topic. Excellently detailed pictures and descriptions of edible wild plants. Major weakness of the book is that he only describes a handful of them, which defeats the point of having the guide.
I will contiue t6o read this book as I will start foraging in 2012 as a new hobby. I like that he brings his personal experience of finding the wild plants to this book. Factual and well researched Samuel thayer is a cut above when reading about ethnobotany.
This is one of the clearest books on preparing wild edibles that I have found. And the recipes are delicious.
Stop mowing! Eat wild food!
Stop mowing! Eat wild food!
One of the better wild foods books in my opinion. He emphasizes plants not covered in the standard books like groundnut and others.
Great guide book for unambiguous identification. I've found most of these here on campus, in Pennsylvania.
The best book on the subject.
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