Screen LibraryGuide to wild foods and useful plants /
An array of abundant wild foods is available to hikers, campers, foragers, or anyone interested in living closer to the earth. Written by a leading expert on wild foods and a well-known teacher of survival skills, Guide to Wild Foods and Useful Plants is more than a listing of plant types--it teache...
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Chicago Review Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Chicago, Illinois : |
| Publication Dates: | [2014] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Second edition. |
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| Summary: |
An array of abundant wild foods is available to hikers, campers, foragers, or anyone interested in living closer to the earth. Written by a leading expert on wild foods and a well-known teacher of survival skills, Guide to Wild Foods and Useful Plants is more than a listing of plant types--it teaches how to recognize edible plants and where to find them, their medicinal and nutritional properties, and their growing cycles. This new edition features more than 70 plants found all around the United States along with more than 100 full color photos plus handy leaf, fruit, and seed keys to help r |
| Carrier Form: | ix, 337 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-325) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781613746981 (paperback) : 1613746989 (paperback) |
| Index Number: | QK98 |
| CLC: | S58 |
| Call Number: | S58/N994/2nd ed. |
| Contents: | Agave -- Alyssum -- Amaranth -- Black sage -- Brodiaea -- Burdock -- California Bay -- California coffee berry and cascara sagrada -- Camphor tree -- Carob -- Castor bean -- Cattail -- Chia -- Chickweed -- Chicory -- Cleavers -- Currants and gooseberries -- Dandelion -- Dock -- Elder -- Epazote -- Eucalyptus -- Fennel -- Filaree -- Glasswort -- Grass -- Horehound -- Horsetail -- Jimsonweed -- Lamb's quarter -- Mallow -- Manzanita -- Milkweed -- Miner's lettuce -- Mugwort -- Mustard -- Nasturtium -- Nettle -- Oak tree -- Passionflower -- Pinon pine -- Plantain -- Poison hemlock -- Poison oak |