A Guide to Wild Food Foraging

Dandelion salad, delicious wild mushrooms, fruits and berries--you'll be surprised at what is growing in nearby fields, woods, and shores. Healthy, fresh, and free ingredients can be found in your own backyard, bringing you back to nature and traditional roots. A Guide to Wild Food Foraging is a compact and comprehensive directory of more than 100 profiles of wild plants, herbs, fruits, nuts, mushrooms, seaweeds, and shellfish. Each profile provides you with tips on identification, seasonality, location, and what and when to harvest. It also includes how to safely harvest your foraged treasures while being mindful of maintaining the habitat, how to prepare your bounty, and how to incorporate them into delicious recipes. With this book, you can add flavor to any meal for free. A Guide to Wild Food Foraging includes: Over 100 detailed plant profiles for wild plants, herbs, fruits, nuts, mushrooms, seaweeds, and shellfish. Full color, high-quality photographs, and illustrations to help you properly identify each nutritious and natural piece of food. Useful information for foraging beginners, such as the foraging code, tips for plant conservation, and questions of legality.Tips on freezing herbs and which plants have medicinal value.Recipes, preparation suggestions, and more

Auteur

David Squire has worked for many years as a gardening writer and editor. He has contributed to numerous gardening magazines and is the author (or co-author) of more than 80 gardening and plant-related books. His books include four titles in the new Home Gardener's Specialist Guide series (Fox Chapel Publishing) plus The Scented Garden (Orion) which won the "Quill and Trowel Award" of the Garden Writers of America. David trained as a horticulturist at the Hertfordshire College of Agriculture and at the Royal Horticultural Society, where he was awarded the Wisley Diploma in Horticulture. He was awarded an N.K. Gould Memorial Prize for his collection of herbarium specimens of native British plants. In 2005, this collection of plants was accepted by the Booth Museum of Natural History to become library and museum exhibits. He has a passionate interest in the uses of native plants, whether for eating and survival, or for their historical roles in medicine, folklore and customs.