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# Edible Wild Plants for Beginners: The Essential Edible Plants and Recipes to Get Started

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Wild plants are not only beautiful, but they can also be an affordable and sustainable way to add flavor and nutrition to your diet. Edible Wild Plants for Beginners provides you with the essential information and guidance to begin foraging for edible wild plants and including them in your diet. Edible Wild Plants for Beginners provides profiles of common edible wild plants and includes information on dangerous look-alikes, the best time to harvest, where to find each type of wild plant, and how to cultivate your own garden. From natural remedies to delectable dishes and exotic cocktails, Edible Wild Plants for Beginners provides more than 95 ways for you to use these newfound ingredients. Edible Wild Plants for Beginners will help you explore the world of edible wild plants and teach you how to use them in your home and kitchen, with: More than 95 easy-to-follow edible wild plants recipes and remedies, including Amaranth Vegetable Curry, Pickled Jerusalem Artichokes, Chamomile Cookies, and a Purslane Martini Tips for foraging, harvesting, and cultivating edible wild plants Techniques for serving, preserving, and cooking with edible wild plants 31 edible wild plant profiles, including descriptions, distinguishing features, preparation and collection tips, and common uses 10 simple steps to making tinctures A guide to identifying edible wild plants and avoiding common poisonous plants With Edible Wild Plants for Beginners , you'll be able to start living sustainably, saving money, and adding variety to your diet the way nature intended.

Review: Terrific Book on the Essentials of Foraging Wild Edibles - I live in Southern California where there is an abundance of hiking trails and campgrounds and I’ve always known that many of the indigenous plants I see here are edible. I discovered from this book that around 500 Native American Indian tribes foraged for food from thousands of wild plants, but I’ve always been afraid to try the berries and nuts and even leaves, flowers and bark that look like food to me, thinking they could be toxic. So my favorite section of the book is chapter four, which actually tells us how to test the roots, stems, leaves, berries and other plant parts by using the “Universal Edibility Test,” which offers simple techniques like rubbing the juice on your inner wrist and holding plant parts to your lips for a few minutes to see if you get a reaction before trying the taste test. The process takes quite awhile, but will keep us wild plant want-to-eaters safe. This book also teaches how identify (and avoid) the distinctive warning features of poisonous plants that make them easy to recognize. There is a great deal of useful information in the book, such as knowing when to forage for and harvest wild plants, what part of day to gather leaves, understanding the changing chemical composition of plants, what tools to use and how to cut the plants, how to carry them, clean them and store them, how to be ethical while foraging, how to protect yourself from predators or bears, how to plant a garden of wild edibles and even how to cook the different parts of your wild plants. To top it off, the book also offers some great sounding recipes, like Garlic Mustard, Prickly Pear Pink Lemonade and Elderberry Dumplings. The photos of numerous edible wild plants are perfect and I love the appendix of Ten Steps to Making Tinctures. Some very good online and print resources are also included. I can’t say enough about this terrific book that is a must-have for anyone interested in foraging for wild edibles or who already forages.
Review: Great, easy to use resource - This book is full of useful and fascinating information about wild edible plants, meaning localized plants not commercially grown. They are usually discovered and re-planted in their own indigenous regions where the locals, often the only people who know their value and edibility, cultivate their own supplies. These nutritious and unaltered plants, once carefully harvested, can be used in everything from entrees to cocktails. This easy and enjoyable read explains, succinctly but with important details, what to know before you go, what tools are essential, how to test edibility, and when and how to harvest. Book 2 is an invaluable guide filled with recipes, instructions and illustrations for putting edible plants to their best use, whether it’s eating, drinking, or as natural remedies.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
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| Best Sellers Rank | #34,707 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #13 in Mushrooms in Biological Sciences #36 in Gardening & Horticulture Reference (Books) #54 in Gardening Encyclopedias |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 2,317 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Terrific Book on the Essentials of Foraging Wild Edibles
*by C***N on December 14, 2013*

I live in Southern California where there is an abundance of hiking trails and campgrounds and I’ve always known that many of the indigenous plants I see here are edible. I discovered from this book that around 500 Native American Indian tribes foraged for food from thousands of wild plants, but I’ve always been afraid to try the berries and nuts and even leaves, flowers and bark that look like food to me, thinking they could be toxic. So my favorite section of the book is chapter four, which actually tells us how to test the roots, stems, leaves, berries and other plant parts by using the “Universal Edibility Test,” which offers simple techniques like rubbing the juice on your inner wrist and holding plant parts to your lips for a few minutes to see if you get a reaction before trying the taste test. The process takes quite awhile, but will keep us wild plant want-to-eaters safe. This book also teaches how identify (and avoid) the distinctive warning features of poisonous plants that make them easy to recognize. There is a great deal of useful information in the book, such as knowing when to forage for and harvest wild plants, what part of day to gather leaves, understanding the changing chemical composition of plants, what tools to use and how to cut the plants, how to carry them, clean them and store them, how to be ethical while foraging, how to protect yourself from predators or bears, how to plant a garden of wild edibles and even how to cook the different parts of your wild plants. To top it off, the book also offers some great sounding recipes, like Garlic Mustard, Prickly Pear Pink Lemonade and Elderberry Dumplings. The photos of numerous edible wild plants are perfect and I love the appendix of Ten Steps to Making Tinctures. Some very good online and print resources are also included. I can’t say enough about this terrific book that is a must-have for anyone interested in foraging for wild edibles or who already forages.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great, easy to use resource
*by K***N on December 11, 2013*

This book is full of useful and fascinating information about wild edible plants, meaning localized plants not commercially grown. They are usually discovered and re-planted in their own indigenous regions where the locals, often the only people who know their value and edibility, cultivate their own supplies. These nutritious and unaltered plants, once carefully harvested, can be used in everything from entrees to cocktails. This easy and enjoyable read explains, succinctly but with important details, what to know before you go, what tools are essential, how to test edibility, and when and how to harvest. Book 2 is an invaluable guide filled with recipes, instructions and illustrations for putting edible plants to their best use, whether it’s eating, drinking, or as natural remedies.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A useful tool for those wishing to incorporate edible wild plants into their diets.
*by J***S on December 18, 2013*

Edible Wild Plants for Beginners is a valuable resource for anyone wishing to incorporate wild plants into their diet. Edible wild plants offer many benefits such as affordable nutrition, variety in cooking, and a fun new hobby. This book will teach the reader where and how to forage for edible plants. It teaches to reader what plants, flowers and weeds are common in their geographic location and what parts of these plants are edible. It provides information on what tools can be used to forage edible plants and common tips for successfully foraging for edible plants. The reader will learn how to prepare and cook with wild plants. Finally, the book advises reader on how to identify potentially danger non-edible wild plants. It is an excellent resource for anyone wanting to learn how to incorporate these delicious and nutrition food options into their diet.

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