Description

This beautifully illustrated and comprehensive guide teaches readers how to forage, harvest, and prepare wild plants for both food and medicine.

**Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants in Wild (and Not So Wild) Places** provides detailed information on more than five hundred plants that can be used to support nutrition and health. Readers will learn how to identify and utilize common plants such as mullein, which can be made into a tea to help suppress coughs; stinging nettle, which becomes a delicious, iron-rich dish when steamed; cattail, whose cooked stalks have a corn-like taste and are packed with protein; and wild apricots, whose leaf infusion can ease stomach aches and digestive issues.

With more than 260 detailed line drawings, this book helps foragers recognize a wide variety of useful plants, many of which can be incorporated into meals using the thirty-plus recipes included. Hundreds of edible and medicinal plants are readily available in nature, just waiting to be discovered. This guide serves as both a practical handbook for harvesting the Earth’s natural offerings and an insightful exploration of the plants that grow all around us.