Foraging for Wild Food
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Have you ever looked at a wild plant, and wondered if it was edible? Foraging is very popular these days, but alas, most field
guides on wild plants do not give any information on edibility, and most foraging guides are a cumbersome item to take into the
field. They do, of course give information on how to prepare the food, along with interesting historical
snippets, and other useful data, and are still valuable items to have on the reference shelf, especially if you want to take up foraging more seriously.
To lighten your load, I have published a compact guide, which includes a list of plants, which can be printed off seperately and will only add a few extra pages to any field guide, but give you that valuable missing information.
The full, illustrated handbook also contains over fifty detailed plant profiles with photographs, and is colour coded throughout for ease of reference.
Update - the new version of the foraging guide for North America is now available.
At last this long awaited guide for North America is finally available. It has all the great
features of the UK version, but is adapted for North America. This version has common names in use in North America and Canada, and is also
optimised for printing on letter sized paper, the prefered format for N. America, plus distribution maps. It contains slightly fewer plants, but only just!
The price is only USD 5.95. Find out more on the Foraging Guide page.
Update - the new version of the foraging guide is now available.
It is now suitable for single-sided printing (or double-sided, according to your preference) on paper. It has a
new revised and expanded plant list with details of around 350 plants, which are considered by some publications
to be edible. The list includes trees, shrubs, coastal and wetland plants. Details include common name, botanical name and family, caution notes,
which part is edible and in what way it may be consumed. With the plant list comes a key, and important information
on safety, as well as some additional information, which should be used in conjunction with the list.
The latest versions for the UK and N. America (May 2009) also contains new pages on medicinal use, where a remedy can be searched for speific ailments (but please read all relevant safety information).
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