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by: Samuel Thayer  List Price: $22.95 Amazon.com's Price: $15.61 You Save: $7.34 (32%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 641.303 EAN: 9780976626602 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0976626608 Label: Forager's Harvest Press Manufacturer: Forager's Harvest Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 368 Publication Date: May 15, 2006 Publisher: Forager's Harvest Press Studio: Forager's Harvest Press Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: 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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Not a keeper for meWhile the information included here is extensive for the limited number of plants covered, it wasn't useful for me. As a relative neophyte in this area who'd like to take advantage of plants growing wild in my area, I was disappointed that I was able to recognize only a couple of those presented--plants I was already familiar with. The author is clearly very experienced, but seems to assume that the reader is somewhat experienced as well and just wants to extend his current knowledge. ... Read More Rating:  - It fills the void!This book is unique in that it fills a big void in the other wild edible books out there. This void is filled mainly by the chapters entitled "Harvest and Preparation Methods for Wild Plant Foods" and "Storing Wild Foods". Thayer wrote this book with his experience and not what he has compiled from other books like so many others. It covers only 32 plants but they are very useful plants and it covers them in detail. I agree with other reviewers in that the book may only cover plants that are more ... Read More Rating: - Outstanding for the upper midwestIt would be a very difficult task indeed to create a book that really does a good job of treating edible wild plants from all of North America. The books that attempt to do so rely way too much on other written works (which have a lot of misinformation) and way too little on direct experience. Moreover, trying to cover a really broad range of plants means that the plants that are covered are treated rather superficially. Just like the best field guides are usually the field guides for a particular ... Read More Rating: - Excellent book!This book has great detailed information! It's been very useful to me when I've been out foraging. Rating:  - Disappointing for California ForagersWe vacation in the Sierra Nevada every summer and I wanted to start learning about foraging in these beautiful forests. Unfortunately, information for this area is sorely lacking in this volume. I'm sure the Indians who inhabited this area found plenty of wonderful plants to eat. Fortunately for them, they did not have to rely on this book. I will have to look elsewhere for a resource on plants of the Sierra. 
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