Backyard Foraging: 65 Familiar Plants You Didn’t Know You Could Eat
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Release Year
- 2013
- ISBN
- 9781612120096
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Storey Publishing
ISBN-10
1612120091
ISBN-13
9781612120096
eBay Product ID (ePID)
144040125
Product Key Features
Book Title
Backyard Foraging : 65 Familiar Plants You Didn't Know You Could Eat
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2013
Topic
Plants / General, Sustainable Living, Ornamental Plants
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Nature, House & Home, Gardening
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
18.6 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
eoe[An] impressively comprehensive guide by horticulturist Zachos, who stresses the eoeease and elegancee of foraging familiar plantse"greens, fruits, nuts, seeds, tubers, and fungie"in yards and nearby environs. e Eye-catching sidebars on legality, quick plant identification, food-preparation tips, and more accompany the main text, which is abundantly illustrated with full-color photos throughout.e, [An] impressively comprehensive guide by horticulturist Zachos, who stresses the ease and elegance of foraging familiar plants-greens, fruits, nuts, seeds, tubers, and fungi-in yards and nearby environs. … Eye-catching sidebars on legality, quick plant identification, food-preparation tips, and more accompany the main text, which is abundantly illustrated with full-color photos throughout., "[An] impressively comprehensive guide by horticulturist Zachos, who stresses the "ease and elegance" of foraging familiar plants--greens, fruits, nuts, seeds, tubers, and fungi--in yards and nearby environs. ... Eye-catching sidebars on legality, quick plant identification, food-preparation tips, and more accompany the main text, which is abundantly illustrated with full-color photos throughout.", "[An] impressively comprehensive guide by horticulturist Zachos, who stresses the "ease and elegance" of foraging familiar plants--greens, fruits, nuts, seeds, tubers, and fungi--in yards and nearby environs. ... Eye-catching sidebars on legality, quick plant identification, food-preparation tips, and more accompany the main text, which is abundantly illustrated with full-color photos throughout." -- John Kallas, director of Wild Food Adventures
Dewey Decimal
581.632
Table Of Content
Introduction 1 Getting Started: Identifying Habitats in the 'Hood Ensuring Safety * Ethical Harvesting 2 Harvest with Care: You Don't Have to Sacrifice Your Scenery Picking Shoots and Young Foliage * Foraging Flowers, Fruits, and Nuts * Digging Roots and Tubers * Timing for Taste 3 Grazing Greens: Tasty Leaves and Stems 4 The Fruits of Nature's Labor: Edible Flowers and Fruits 5 Nature's Granola: Nuts and Seeds 6 Hidden Treasure: Roots, Tubers, and Rhizomes 7 Superstars: Plants with Many Edible Parts 8 Friendly Fungi: Five Easy Mushrooms 9 You Wouldn't Do This If It Didn't Taste Good: Preserving Advice and Basic Recipes Freezing * Dehydration * Syrups, Jams, and Jellies * Booze * Baked Goods and Savory Dishes * Fruity Miscellany * Resources and Recommended Reading * Books about Wild Edible Plants * Foraging Books and Blogs * Mushrooms * Vendors of Mushroom-Growing Supplies * Food Preparation Interior Photography Credits Index
Synopsis
There's food growing everywhere You'll be amazed by how many of the plants you see each day are actually nutritious edibles. Ideal for first-time foragers, this book features 70 edible weeds, flowers, mushrooms, and ornamental plants typically found in urban and suburban neighborhoods. Full-color photographs make identification easy, while tips on common plant locations, pesticides, pollution, and dangerous flora make foraging as safe and simple as stepping into your own backyard., Turn the everyday landscape into a food-filled paradise with this guide to safely identifying and consuming common edible plants., There's food growing everywhere! You'll be amazed by how many of the plants you see each day are actually nutritious edibles. Ideal for first-time foragers, this book features 70 edible weeds, flowers, mushrooms, and ornamental plants typically found in urban and suburban neighborhoods. Full-color photographs make identification easy, while tips on common plant locations, pesticides, pollution, and dangerous flora make foraging as safe and simple as stepping into your own backyard.
LC Classification Number
QK98.5
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