Since the weather is so great...it's time for hiking again and enjoying all those spring flowers! But what I'd also like to do this year is educate my family and myself on how to eat off the land if we needed to. Reading about the Boutenko kids doing this, and thus never having the fear of starving...I thought that was very cool. It also would be a great homeschooling project for my daughter.
Do any of you have a book on edible wild food that you have enjoyed and would recommend? Thanks!!:)
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03-14-2007 02:34 PM #1
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Wild Edible book...recommendation??
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03-14-2007 02:38 PM #2
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Excellent request, I would love to know. As it is I can't wait to make fresh dandelion salad.
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Yeah, I'm waiting for a title suggestion too! All these eager Raw beavers! I truly think the energy of wild Raw food is......loaded with mystical energy that will be conveyed to us upon eating it. Actually, I'm wondering if any of our local community colleges have a walk-about course on this subject. Hate to brag, but I'm in the land of lushness here in the Oregon rain forest. There would be so much for wildcrafting!
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03-15-2007 12:06 AM #4
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When I first came to the desert I took a class with an expert and we made our own book. Now almost 30 years later I wish I still had it. (kinda dried up and fell apart.) There are also many websites with info and possibly under old threads here about foraging.
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03-15-2007 02:28 AM #5
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first idea...
My first idea would be: 'the juicing bible'. It has a great section about wild edible plants.
Look for some book about healing with plant. Every edible plant is also a plant to someone from something. Same with our nutrition as a whole.
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03-16-2007 12:58 PM #6
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I'll have to go hunting then....
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03-16-2007 01:06 PM #7
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The one I have is Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants in Wild (and not so wild) Places by "Wildman" Steve Brill. It has detailed drawing of the plants with what to look for. I confess I haven't used it yet though. There's still snow everywhere!
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03-16-2007 01:46 PM #8
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David Wolfe recommends 'WILD EDIBLE PLANTS: A NORTH AMERICAN FIELD GUIDE' he now sells it on his web: I got one from Barnes & Noble and thoroughly enjoy it. Joz
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03-16-2007 02:02 PM #9
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This just made me think, my grandparents popped in for a surprise visit this past weekend and I had just finished putting in a new flower garden. I had transplatted a bunch of lily's from my backyard to my new garden. I accidently planted planted garlic in my garden too! It was a nice surprise the leaves looked so pretty. My grandmother is the one who spotted it and she just laughed and laughed at me. So maybe I will turn my new little garden into a herb garden, lol!
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