The Forager's Harvest: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants -- Samuel Thayer - Paperback

A guide to 32 of the best and most common edible wild plants in North America, with detailed information on how to identify them, where they are found, how and when they are harvested, which parts are used, how they are prepared, as well as their culinary use, ecology, conservation, and cultural history.

Author: Samuel Thayer
Publisher: Foragers Harvest Press
Published: 05/01/2006
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780976626602
Award: Independent Publisher Book Awards - Bronze Medal Winner
Award: Midwest Book Award (MIPA) - Winner

About the Author

Samuel Thayer is an internationally recognized authority on edible wild plants who has authored two award-winning books on the topic, Nature's Garden and The Forager's Harvest. He has taught foraging and field identification for more than two decades. Besides lecturing and writing, Samuel is an advocate for sustainable food systems who owns a diverse organic orchard and harvests wild rice, acorns, hickory nuts, maple syrup, and other wild products. He lives in rural northern Wisconsin with his wife and three children.