Author: Christopher Nyerges
Publisher: INDEPENDANT PUBLISHERS GROUP, Feb 2010
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 1-55652-344-0
Synopsis
Written by a leading expert on wild foods & a well-known teacher of survival skills, this is more than a listing of plant types?it teaches how to recognize edible plants & where to find them, their medicinal & nutritional properties, & their growing cycles. It also includes fascinating folklore about plants, personal anecdotes about trips & meals, simple & tasty recipes, & photographs.B&W Photos; 6x9 inches, 288 pages.
More Information
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 & a well-known teacher of survival skills, Guide to Wild Foods & Useful Plants is more than a listing of plant types?it teaches how to recognize edible plants & where to find them, their medicinal & nutritional properties, & their growing cycles. It also includes fascinating folklore about plants, personal anecdotes about trips & meals, simple & tasty recipes, & photographs.
WHAT THE EXPERTS ARE SAYING:
?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
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Christopher Nyerges is the codirector with his wife of the School of Self-Reliance, where he has taught classes on wild foods & survival skills since 1974. He is an associate editor of Wilderness Way & west coast editor of Wild Food Forum. He has published hundreds of articles on wild foods, gardening, self-reliance, & survival skills in American Survival Guide, Whole Life Times, Mother Earth News, Herbalist, & many other magazines.