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

A practical guide to all aspects of edible wild plants: finding and identifying them, their seasons of harvest, and their methods of collection and preparation. Each plant is discussed in great detail and accompanied by excellent color photographs. Includes an index, illustrated glossary, bibliography, and harvest calendar. The perfect guide for all experience levels. more

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Posted: Oct-06-2009

Very Helpful and Informative.

The book is amazing. Very thorough and entertaining. I have had the pleasure of going on an edible plant walk with Samuel, he is so knowledgable and interesting. A wonderful job. Cannot wait for the next book, he almost has it ready.

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Posted: Sep-14-2009

BEST Book for a Beginner

This is the best book for a beginner. this book shows you how to store, prepare and harvest on top of showing you how to identify plants. this book has some depth to it. He describes the plant very well with added pictures for confirmation, he'll show you look alike plants so you dont get...

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Posted: Sep-10-2009

best book ever

I have read a lot of books on the subject and I practice wilderness survival. I am always looking for new plants to add to the ones I already know about. Edible plants arte certainly my weakest area of wilderness survival and I have read and tried so many other books. This book explained things...

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Posted: Aug-30-2009

Real experience, real information.

This guide is primarily for the northern states and south eastern Canada but many of the plants he covers are more widespread. It is not complete and not intended to be. It is primarily the most useful and widespread wild plants that the author has used. He gives very specific and practical...

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Posted: Jul-30-2009

the forager's harvest

This seems very thorough on what it covers, but it is limited to what the author personally has used. His writing style is bold and helpful. There are more plants I would like to know about that he doesn't include.

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Posted: Jul-09-2009

Highly recommended

Great pics of the plants, great info, debunked some myths, I enjoy the book very much!

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Posted: Jul-06-2009

A good start..but you'll need more

This book served as my introduction to wild foods. Without a basic education in plant science, you will have a lot of catching up to do. This book doesn't really represent a complete "guide" to the identification of the various plant found in my area (which was not the author's goal), and even...

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Posted: Jun-22-2009

Got 6 foraging books, this is the best tutorial!

The other reviews cover the strengths of this book well. Just wanted to add my 5 stars! I ordered about 6 books at the same time as a beginner foraging and this is definitely the best in terms of treatment and tutorial on foraging. I only wish the author had covered more plants!

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Posted: Mar-21-2009

Great Book!

This is a wonderful book, especially if you live in Wisconsin or the northern US. Very detailed information on how to forage for and prepare edible wild plants.

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Posted: Feb-20-2009

The Forager's Harvest

This book is a great guid to foraging for wild eidibals. This book goes into good detail about foraging. If you want to get back intouch with nature, this book is a good start.

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