Foraging


The Forager's Harvest: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants
Nature's Garden: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants
Edible Wild Plants: Wild Foods from Dirt to Plate
Incredible Wild Edibles: 36 Plants That Can Change Your Life
Stalking the Wild Asparagus
Backyard Foraging: 65 Familiar Plants You Didn't Know You Could Eat
The Forager's Calendar: A Seasonal Guide to Nature’s Wild Harvests
Edible Wild Plants: A North American Field Guide
All That the Rain Promises and More: A Hip Pocket Guide to Western Mushrooms
Food for Free (Collins Gem)
Sam Thayer's Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants: of Eastern and Central North America
Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants
Northeast Foraging: 120 Wild and Flavorful Edibles from Beach Plums to Wineberries (Regional Foraging Series)
A Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants: Eastern and Central North America
The New Wildcrafted Cuisine: Exploring the Exotic Gastronomy of Local Terroir
Elderberries by Alicia BayerStalking the Wild Asparagus by Euell GibbonsBraiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererAcorn Foraging by Alicia BayerThe Forager's Harvest by Samuel Thayer
Wild Useful Plants
44 books — 15 voters
Midwest Foraging by Lisa M.  RoseThe Complete Guide to Edible Wild Plants, Mushrooms, Fruits, ... by Katie Letcher LyleForaging Medicinal Herbs and Wild Edible Plants in the Great ... by Samantha DeereThe Forager’s Guide to Wild Foods by Nicole Apelian
Foraging 101 Reading List
4 books — 1 voter

How to Grow More Vegetables by John JeavonsThe Kaufmann Mercantile Guide by Jessica HundleyThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanThe Forager's Harvest by Samuel ThayerAll That the Rain Promises and More by David Arora
Huckberry Book Club: DIRT
10 books — 2 voters
Elderberries by Alicia BayerAcorn Foraging by Alicia BayerStalking the Wild Asparagus by Euell GibbonsPreserves by Pam CorbinBooze for Free by Andy  Hamilton
Best Foraging Books
18 books — 8 voters

The Forager's Harvest by Samuel ThayerThe Scavenger's Guide to Haute Cuisine by Steven RinellaElderberries by Alicia BayerAcorn Foraging by Alicia BayerStalking the Wild Asparagus by Euell Gibbons
Wild Food
65 books — 30 voters

Tove Jansson
Once a year the Hattifatteners collect there before setting out again on their endless foraging expedition round the world. They come from all points of the compass, silent and serious with their small, white empty faces, and why they hold this yearly meeting it is difficult to say, as they can neither hear nor speak, and have no object in life but the distant goal of their journey's end. Perhaps they like to have a place where they feel at home and can rest a little and meet friends. ...more
Tove Jansson, Finn Family Moomintroll

Of the known fungi species, of which there are tens of thousands, only about 3% are known to be poisonous. Within that, there are varying degrees of likely harm. Some will upset your tummy; others will liquify your liver.
Liv Sisson, Fungi of Aotearoa: A Curious Forager's Field Guide

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