A Guide to Wild Food Foraging: Proper Techniques for Finding and Preparing Nature's Flavorful Edibles - Couverture souple

Squire, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1504801350 ISBN 13 : 9781504801355

Editeur : IMM Lifestyle Books, 2023

Synopsis

Learn a useful self-sufficiency skill with this field guide to foraging!

• Complete, compact, on-the-go guide to help foragers identify, locate, and use a variety of wild foods
• More than 100 wild foods with detailed plant profiles for wild plants, herbs, fruits, nuts, mushrooms, seaweeds, and shellfish
• Plant profiles include expert insight on identification, seasonality, location, and how to prepare and use each plant in delicious recipes
• New edition includes updated color photography to enhance safe identification

The benefits of foraging for food are far and wide. Whether you're looking for ways to become more self-sufficient, save money, or develop healthier habits, A Guide to Wild Food Foraging will help!

This book is an extensive on-the-go directory of more than 100 profiles for wild plants, herbs, fruits, nuts, mushrooms, seaweeds, and shellfish. Each profile provides tips on identification, seasonality, location, what and when to harvest, and how to prepare and use your harvest in delicious recipes. Most of these foods are within reach — however, you've got to know what you're looking for, where to go, and when.

This compact field guide has all the information you need to forage food, alongside new, high-quality photographs and illustrations to help you identify a wholesome and natural food store, all for free. Join the countless homesteaders, chefs, restaurateurs, family cooks, survivalists, and naturalists who have discovered the joys of wild foods!

Forage fresh, local foods so you can eat better, save money, learn a useful survival skill, and have fun in the process, with A Guide to Wild Food Foraging!

A propos du livre

À propos de l?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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: IMM Lifestyle Books
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1504801350
• ISBN 13: 9781504801355
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 176
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible