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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