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Backyard Foraging Spiral-Bound | 2013-03-12

Ellen Zachos

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Turn the everyday landscape into a food-filled paradise with this guide to safely identifying and consuming common edible plants.


There's food growing everywhere! You'll be amazed by how many of the plants you see each day are actually nutritious edibles. Ideal for first-time foragers, this book features 70 edible weeds, flowers, mushrooms, and ornamental plants typically found in urban and suburban neighborhoods. Full-color photographs make identification easy, while tips on common plant locations, pesticides, pollution, and dangerous flora make foraging as safe and simple as stepping into your own backyard.

Publisher: Hachette Book Group
Original Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240 pages
ISBN-10: 1612120091
Item Weight: 1.2 lbs
Dimensions: 7.0 x 0.7 x 9.0 inches

"[An] impressively comprehensive guide by horticulturist Zachos, who stresses the "ease and elegance" of foraging familiar plants--greens, fruits, nuts, seeds, tubers, and fungi--in yards and nearby environs. … Eye-catching sidebars on legality, quick plant identification, food-preparation tips, and more accompany the main text, which is abundantly illustrated with full-color photos throughout."

--John Kallas, director of Wild Food Adventures

Ellen Zachos is an expert forager and longtime foraging instructor. She is the author of six books, including The Wildcrafted Cocktail and Backyard Foraging. She is co-host of the Plantrama podcast and can be found online at backyardforager.com.