Backyard foraging : 65 familiar plants you didn't know you could eat
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Backyard foraging : 65 familiar plants you didn't know you could eat
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Physical Description:
239 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
General Note:
Includes index.
Summary:
Details how to forage, harvest, and prepare a number of edible plants typically found in suburban or urban neighborhoods, and includes information on regional locations, avoiding pesticides, and harvesting etiquette.
Contents:
Getting started : identifying habitats in the 'hood, ensuring safety, ethical harvesting -- 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 -- Grazing greens : tasty leaves and stems -- The fruits of nature's labor : edible flowers and fruits -- Nature's granola : nuts and seeds -- Hidden treasure : roots, tubers, and rhizomes -- Friendly fungi -- Superstars -- You wouldn't do this if it didn't taste good : recipes and storage advice -- Freezing -- Dehydration -- Syrups, jams, and jellies -- Booze -- Baked goods -- Savory dishes -- Fruity miscellany -- Resources and recommended reading -- Books about wild edible plants -- Foraging books with blogs -- Mushrooms -- Vendors of mushroom-growing supplies -- Food preparation.
Publication Information:
North Adams, MA : Storey Publishing, 2013.
Subject:
Wild plants, Edible -- Identification. |
Cooking (Wild foods) |
Edible native plants |
Edible weeds |
Edible wild plants |
Native edible plants |
Native plants, Edible |
Weeds, Edible |
Wild edible plants |
Wild food plants |
Wild plants as food |
Cookery (Wild foods) |
Cooking with wild foods |
Wild foods -- Use in cooking |
SAILS ISBN:
9781612120096