The Forager's Harvest: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants | 
| Author: Samuel Thayer
Publisher: Forager's Harvest Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  15 reviews
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 0.7
ISBN: 0976626608
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.303
EAN: 9780976626602
ASIN: 0976626608
Publication Date: May 15, 2006
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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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 Limited but in depth on what it covers May 9, 2008
This book inspired me to try eating the milkweed that is growing all over my back yard. Following the sniff-touch to tongue - taste - chew - swallow - wait 5 hrs sequence, we determined ours was edible. We have so far cooked up several plates of milkweed stems. They taste like asparagus but milder.
The book goes into some level of depth with the plants it covers, enough to give you some level of confidence. For a more comprehensive book, see the Peterson Guide.
 Greatest Forager Book Ever April 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have bought many books on foraging and this is the best one yet. I know it doesn't cover everything, but it covers the easy ones and in great detail. You'll be able to harvest all edible parts of the plant and cook or eat fresh and enjoy them. After all my foraging reading, this is the book you want especially if your like me and want to learn it all today.
 I guess it's a good guide if you live east of the Rockies... March 7, 2008
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I was interested in finding out what kind of plants were edible native to the Pacific Northwest area, where I live. Unfortunately there were very few edibles covered that grow in this area, which has some of the most awesome natural habitats around. Nothing on Red Huckelberries or Oregon Grape for example. Miners Lettuce? Forget it. Not a good guide if you're interested in foraging in the Pacific Northwest, didn't seem to be any indication of this bias in the Introduction or other clues contained therein... very disapointing.
The centerpiece of any library on edible plants February 18, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought this volume based on the the remarks of the author of the lead review- a botanist by training. I'm very glad I did. Although I have a half-dozen other books on edible plants, this is far and away the best. For the beginner- or even the more experienced forager- there is simply no better volume on identifying edible plants. And as the author notes, many other volumes list plants that may be non-toxic, but are certainly unpalatable. This book concentrates on commonly found, readily identifiable, flavorful plants that can be found almost all across North America.
The author is unstinting in his criticism of books he finds useless or misleading, but similarly unstinting in his praise of those, like Euell Gibbons, he admires; he goes so far as to say that he doesn't include any real recipes beyond the most simple preparations as Gibbons does a far better job than he could do.
Strongly recommended for naturalists, gardeners, foragers, scout leaders, hunters, survivalists, and anyone who'd like to explore the wild garden growing around them.
Excellent guide, but too regional November 22, 2007
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
This would be a 5-star book if I lived back East or in the South. This is great if you live in South Carolina, Florida or Oklahoma. Even the New England area. But a lot of these plants aren't found in the American Southwest or the Pacific Northwest. For example, knot weed is quite common in the Pacific Northwest from California all the way up to Canada and yet it's not covered in here. It was brought over from Europe where it had been cultivated as a forage for livestock. It is edible by humans but I couldn't find any mention of it. I also thought the author took some chances with things like milkweed. Just because a wild plant doesn't have short term side affects doesn't mean it isn't doing something to your body in the long term.
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