A Guide to Wild Food Foraging: Proper Techniques for Finding and Preparing Nature's Flavorful Edibles (IMM Lifestyle Books) How to Forage Over 100 Herbs, Fruits, Nuts, Mushrooms, Shellfish, and More

Learn a useful self-sufficiency skill with this field guide to foraging! Complete on-the-go guide to help foragers identify, locate, and use a variety of tasty edible wild foods Over 100 plant profiles with detailed information on wild plants, herbs, fruits, nuts, mushrooms, seaweeds, and shellfish Expert insight on identification, seasonality, location, plant conservation, and legality Recipes and preparation suggestions for each plant, including freezing tips and which plants have medicinal value Full-color photos and illustrations to enhance safe identification of each nutritious, natural food The benefits of foraging for food are far and wide. Whether you're looking for ways to become more self-sufficient, save money, or develop healthier habits, A Guide to Wild Food Foraging will help! Dandelion salad, delicious wild mushrooms, fruits, herbs, and berries you'll be surprised at what is growing in nearby fields, woods, and shores. Healthy, fresh, and free ingredients can be found in your own backyard, bringing you back to nature and our traditional roots. This book is a compact and comprehensive directory of more than 100 profiles of wild plants, herbs, fruits, nuts, mushrooms, truffles, and other edible fungi, seaweeds, and shellfish. Each profile provides tips on identification, seasonality, location, and what and when to harvest, while the mushroom section includes pictures of poisonous look-alikes to avoid. It also includes how to safely harvest your foraged treasures while being mindful of maintaining the habitat, how to prepare your bounty, and how to incorporate them into delicious recipes. Useful information is included for foraging beginners, such as the foraging code, tips for plant conservation, and questions of legality. With this book, you can add flavor to any meal for free! Featured wild foods include: Comfrey Lovage Sea Kale Wild Spinach Chamomile Horseradish Tansy Wild Garlic Barberry Cloudberry Hawthorn Sloe Wild Rose Hazelnut Sweet Chestnut Blewits Chanterelle Giant Puffball Morels Carrageen Dulse Oarweed Sea Lettuce Clams Cockles Oysters And much more! Most of these wholesome foods are within reach however, you've got to know what you're looking for, where to go, and when. This compact field guide has all the information you need to forage food, alongside full-color, high-quality photographs and illustrations to help you identify and collect your natural food store. Join the countless homesteaders, chefs, restaurateurs, family cooks, survivalists, and naturalists who have discovered the joys of wild foods! Forage fresh, local foods so you can eat better, save money, learn a useful survival skill, and have fun in the process, with A Guide to Wild Food Foraging! "As beautiful as it is instructive, A Guide to Wild Food Foraging illustrates just how accessible a backyard feast can be. Squires' tips, descriptions, and recipes are equally well-suited to the seasoned scavenger and the novice outdoorsman. No doubt readers will be encouraged to enthusiastically eat more 'weeds'!" Kayla Butts MS, RDN, LD, author of Garden to Table Cookbook: A Guide to Preserving and Cooking What You Grow