GUIDE TO WILD FOODS AND USEFUL PLANTS

GUIDE TO WILD FOODS AND USEFUL PLANTS An array of abundant wild foods is available to hikers, campers, botanists or anyone interested in living closer to the earth. Written by a leading expert on wild foods & a well-known teacher of survival skills, Guide to Wild Foods & Useful Plants is more than a listing of plant typesit teaches how to recognize edible plants & where to find them, their medicinal & nutritional properties, & their growing cycles. It also includes fascinating folklore about plants, personal anecdotes about trips & meals, simple & tasty recipes, & photographs.WHAT THE EXPERTS ARE SAYING:The only book of its kind . . . thoroughly written and full of firsthand experience . . . packed with the kind of information that makes identifying food plants fun. Robert Smaus, garden editor, Los Angeles TimesABOUT THE AUTHOR: Christopher Nyerges is the codirector with his wife of the School of Self-Reliance, where he has taught classes on wild foods & survival skills since 1974. He is an associate editor of Wilderness Way & west coast editor of Wild Food Forum. He has published hundreds of articles on wild foods, gardening, self-reliance, & survival skills in American Survival Guide, Whole Life Times, Mother Earth News, Herbalist, & many other magazines. ISBN: 1-55652-344-0 publish date: 02/09/2010