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Nabaza.net-The MarketPlace - The Forager's Harvest: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants
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Manufacturer: Forager's Harvest Press
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.303
EAN: 9780976626602
ISBN: 0976626608
Label: Forager's Harvest Press
Manufacturer: Forager's Harvest Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: 2006-05-15
Publisher: Forager's Harvest Press
Studio: Forager's Harvest Press
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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.
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Summary: Excellent book!
Comment: This book has great detailed information! It's been very useful to me when I've been out foraging.
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Summary: Disappointing for California Foragers
Comment: We 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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Summary: Excellent Guide for Identification
Comment: I can't add to the other reviewers' praises, but do want to add to the description of this fine book, because some readers have been disappointed that it doesn't apply to their region (e.g. west of the Rockies). It would have been helpful to find this in book's description, but since it isn't, I'll add it here. The author notes in his intro that this book should be useful to foragers everywhere, but particularly in these regions: GREAT LAKES, MIDWEST, NORTHEAST AND THE SOUTHERN PART OF EASTERN CANADA. Hope this helps future book-buying foragers, looking for guides best suited to their region.
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Summary: Good Book
Comment: While this book doesn't cover a huge variety of wild edidbles the text and pictures on the ones it does cover are very useful. It is obvious that the author has actually collected the plants he is writting about. It is great that he offers new information on many of the plants not just information copied from someone else. Lets hope he writes another book.
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Summary: Best Book on Foraging - Mary R
Comment: The information in this book is more complete and concise than any book I have seen. Thayer limits the number of plants covered so that we may become completely familiar with the many characteristics that differentiate each species.
Interested in foraging since I was a child, I was certain of only a few wild edibles that my dad taught me. I read Gibbon's, "Stalking the Wild Asparagus" years ago but was unable to identify plants with certainty (which is fairly important to me if I'm planning on eating it).
Reading Thayer's book only weeks ago I've found more than a dozen delicious goodies right around my house and felt 100% confident of what I had found. (You really have to try milkweed! Yum! Who'd 'a thunk it?). Tips for harvesting, preparing and cooking add to the wealth of information. I only wish I'd have purchased the book earlier in the spring as blossoming was pretty much over in my area, eliminating one identifying characteristic. But there's always next year.
I hope his next book is as good.
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