The Everything Guide to Foraging: Identifying, Harvesting, and Cooking Nature's Wild Fruits and Vegetables (Everything®)

If you're searching for the freshest fruits and vegetables to add to your diet, you don't have to look any further than your own backyard! With dozens of detailed illustrations, color photos, and more than 150 tasty recipes, this guide is your ultimate one-stop reference for identifying and harvesting the wild fruits and vegetables that grow in fields, forests, and even on your own lawn. Inside you'll find: In-depth descriptions of edible plants, including their likely locations Easy and delicious recipes for your wild harvest A primer on careful foraging techniques and conservation ethics Essential information on poisonous look-alikes From clover and cattails to milkweed and mustard, this book will teach you how to collect and prepare some of the most common--and delicious--feral plants in America. And, more than just a way to a fantastic meal, this book will guide you to both a newfound confidence in your own abilities, as well as a greater appreciation of the natural world. From the field to your table-- how to find and prepare wild foods. This is your one-stop reference for identifying and harvesting the wild fruits and vegetables that grow in fields, forests, and even on your own lawn. Abstract: Suitable for readers who are interested in wild plants and how they can be used for food, this title guides readers from their gardens to the meadows, thickets, forests, wetlands, beaches, mountains, and deserts with exercises on how to identify the plants that they are likely to encounter, harvesting techniques, and 150 recipes for using them. Read more... From the field to your table-how to find and prepare wild foods. If you're searching for the freshest fruits and vegetables to add to your diet, you don't have to look any further than your own backyard! With dozens of detailed illustrations, color photos, and more than 150 tasty recipes, this guide is your ultimate one-stop reference for identifying and harvesting the wild fruits and vegetables that grow in fields, forests, and even on your own lawn. Inside you'll find: - In-depth descriptions of edible plants, including their likely locations- Easy and delicious recipes for your wild harvest Content: The way of the forager -- Connecting with plants -- Becoming plant wise -- Poisonous plants -- Plant families -- Where the wild things grow -- Invasive aliens -- Spring emergents -- Summer's harvest -- Fall foraging -- Winter foraging -- Growing wild -- Into the forager's kitchen -- Storing wild plants -- Beverages -- Appetizers, salads, sauces, and spreads -- Soups and vegetable dishes -- Green cuisine -- Breads -- Desserts.