An array of abundant wild foods is available to hikers, campers, botanists 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 typesit teaches how to recognize edible plants and where to find them, their medicinal and nutritional properties, and their growing cycles. It also includes fascinating folklore about plants, personal anecdotes about trips and meals, simple and tasty recipes, and photographs.
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"The only book of its kind ... thoroughly written and full of firsthand experience ... packed with the kind of information that makes identifying food plants fun." --Robert Smaus, garden editor, Los Angeles Times
Christopher Nyerges has instructed thousands of children and adults on field trips, lectures, and classes in ethnobotany, on basic survival and living skills for both wilderness and the urban environment through his School of Self-Reliance. He is the editor of Wilderness Way magazine and lives in Eagle Rock, California.
